Amish: A Secret Life
2012 · 60 MIN · IMDB 7.1 · 153 VOTES · DIR. Lynn Alleway
Overview
Miriam and Dave Lapp are a charming young couple with a brood of adorable children. Dave works in and part owns a construction company. They are also members of the 'Old Order' Amish community in Pennsylvania,whose church forbids all technology - though Dave gets lifts to work in a car and the couple,by allowing themselves to be filmed,risk the wrath of church elders. Having outlined their traditional life-style to camera Miriam persuades several friends to be happily filmed and it becomes clear that the Lapps and other,younger Amish,believe that,having been rebaptized to allow a more open evangelical approach - risking excommunication thereby - they feel the need for a change in the community. The film ends as the family consolidates its dream to own their own farm.
Dialogue Timeline — 803 lines
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00:00:00 ♪ There is not another Sister, friend of brother
00:02:08 Good morning!
00:03:58 Nine!
00:06:21 They live by a set of rules designed to retain their identity.
00:09:00 Are your children planned?
00:11:06 ♪ All of my friends and family
00:14:36 I love you.
00:16:56 And that was a blessed year and a half.
00:19:06 It's 4:30 in the morning.
00:22:02 Yes.
00:24:03 But now, when school is out, I'm like, "You know what?
00:26:24 ♪ That will last through all eternity
00:29:03 If I see they have a need of change in attitude
00:31:22 Danny! Danny!
00:34:02 There would be... I have no idea what would happen
00:36:25 ♪ Salve Regina
00:39:33 It means they shouldn't eat together or gather together.
00:41:41 salvation.
00:43:36 put me in that situation where I'm re-baptised
00:45:58 Some people come here in secret.
00:48:17 they might avoid us, you know, if they do see us.
00:51:12 ♪ As I walk the night away. ♪
00:53:27 you will need to spend time with it.
00:56:44 The family see themselves as Amish Christians.