''Hannah's Law'' is a 2012 American/Canadian

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television film from the Hallmark Movie Channel. The movie stars

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, Sara Canning,

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, and Julian Black Antelope.

Synopsis

The film is centered on the character Hannah Beaumont. The film begins in 1866 Abilene, Texas. The opening scene shows Hannah's parents and young brother being killed by the McMurphy gang. Later in the film, Hannah is a grown woman and a

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. She has taken an interest in finding the McMurphy gang members who brutally murdered her family. Unlike her fellow bounty hunter competitors, Hannah likes to bring the people she captures in alive so they can face justice. She eventually faces the McMurphy gang and learns her brother is actually alive.

Cast

as James Beaumont * Julian Black Antelope as Redwing * Sara Canning as Hannah Beaumont *

as Frank McMurphy * Tom Carey as Hacker * Diego Diablo Del Mar as Pineda *

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as Mary "Stagecoach Mary" * John Fasano as Marshal Deger *

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as Zechariah Stitch * Danny Glover as Isom Dart * Lucy Harvey as Elizabeth *

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* Brendan Hunter as Loring Stewart * Chris Ippolito as Drunk Cowboy *

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as John "Doc" Holliday * Ian Kilburn as "Turk" Anderson * Billy Zane as Lockwood

Reception

Neil Genzlinger of ''

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'' called it "a tasty western tale" with no mailed-in performances. Laura Fries of ''

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'' wrote, "A clear attempt at an action-romance Western, the resulting pic is more like ''Fifty Shades of Dust.''"

References

External links

* * 2012 television films American television films Canadian television films Cultural depictions of Doc Holliday Cultural depictions of Wyatt Earp English-language Canadian films Films directed by Rachel Talalay Films set in Texas Films with screenplays by John Fasano Hallmark Channel original films Western (genre) television films 2012 films 2010s English-language films 2010s Canadian films {{US-tv-film-stub