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!
00:04:01 There you go.
00:06:31 Amish church forbids people from posing
00:09:08 There is no planning on our part.
00:11:36 ♪ I could be on my knees
00:14:58 The Amish attend church every other Sunday.
00:17:17 A hands-off...
00:19:20 Two eggs and a cornmeal mush.
00:22:29 I'm the... I'm the queen of this house
00:24:44 and, er, I don't want to be offended.
00:27:24 Hey!
00:29:44 Was ist es, Benuel?
00:32:06 We need to make sure we have a place
00:34:51 ♪ Salve
00:37:42 ♪ Salve
00:40:23 ♪ Yes, sir
00:42:27 Two-and-a-half, three feet deep.
00:44:35 if it's known from the film that you've been re-baptised?
00:47:09 and we ask you that you would be with us.
00:50:09 ♪ Another day God holds
00:52:24 There's something special about putting seeds in the ground and watch it grow.
00:54:45 The traditional Amish kind don't have phones in their houses.
01:01:03 or something.