Joseph Smith: Plates of Gold

surprisingly good
Knowing productions like this are necessarily made with a low budget in most cases, given the limited audience, I bought this with some trepidation. My family could tell you that I'm a pretty picky movie critic, even when a film depicts subjects I care a lot about. While this production won't measure up to films that cost much more money to make, I was very pleasantly surprised. Our family just finished watching Joseph Smith: Plates of Gold, a feature length film about Joseph's experience of preparing to receive the plates, getting them, hiding them, translating them and printing the Book of Mormon. It focuses a lot on his relationship with Emma too. The actor playing Joseph is the same that played him a few years ago in the video the Church made about his first vision called The Restoration (so now he's appropriately a bit older). It's very well made and even held my teenagers' attention. It's perhaps not quite as excellent as The Work and the Glory series of movies, but better in my...

Very Authentic and Well Made - wonderful
This movie spans the time from right before Joseph's marriage to Emma to the completion of the translation of the Book of Mormon. R Dustin Harding plays Joseph (the same actor as from The Restoration - young Joseph). He is grown up now and does an absolutely phenomenal job (he even has a proper 19th century haircut)!! The cast is young (not 32-year-olds playing 21 year olds). This lends incredible credibility to the story. It is an imperfect yet earnest Joseph we see, a young man growing in his calling. His courtship of Emma and rejection by Isaac Hale as proper suitor stands out in the movie, the death of their firstborn child - it is striking how much more real these seem when young actors portray Emma and Joseph, and many of the other young men who helped in the restoration. It also brings out Martin Harris' immesurable contribution to the restoration - as an older wealthier man - who took Joseph's lead (a much younger man). True, he was party to the lost manuscript, but it is...

plate`s of gold
This movies was awesome. This is based on true events and was done vary well. enjoyed the movie it is about 1.45 min and well worth the time to watch and learn. I know I will watch this movie again and again.

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