Alone yet Not Alone

During the French and Indian War, the Leininger family is attacked by two Native Americans. Daughters Barbara and Regina are kidnapped and taken to Fort Duquesne, where Barbara meets up with a few other kidnapped children, including a girl named Marie. After much deliberation, the Governor of Delaware orders an attack on the Indians' territory. The raid, costs many of the soldiers' lives in the process.

Several years later, Barbara, now a teenager, soon finds out that Marie and two other boys have been planning an escape when she meets with them at a waterfall. Afterwards, warrior Galasko asks Barbara to marry him, and Marie questions this, because the marriage ceremony will be in three days, interrupting their escape plans. Barbara decides to join Marie and the boys, Owen and David, in the escape when Galasko hands her her mother's brooch.

That night, Barbara, Marie, Owen, and David escape together. However, they are knowingly hunted down by the strongest Indian in the family, Hannawoa, Galasko's brother. The four realize they must cross a river to get away, but as they do, they shoot and wound a bear, which David attempts to overthrow, only to be slashed badly by its claw. They all realize that Hannawoa might find their location from hearing the gunshot. Meanwhile, Galasko finds out about Barbara's betrayal and tries to look for her, with help from Hannawoa. Angry with his brother, Hannawoa murders Galasko with an axe. He angrily takes Galasko's two weapons, a rifle and another axe.

At Fort Pitt, Pennsylvania, meanwhile, several British soldiers guarding their camp notice the four kids yelling for help. However, they mistake it for an Indian ambush and inform them that they will pick them up the next morning. Hannawoa appears, and runs hysterically towards the fort with his weapons ready. The British are already prepared, and attack Hannawoa, with some getting killed by him in the process. Hannawoa is shot once, then tries to approach Barbara, but she pulls a dead soldier's gun and shoots him dead, while another soldier stabs him with a bayonet to make sure Hannawoa is really dead. Finally, after 200 miles of running to escape the Delaware Tribe, Barbara, Marie, and the others reunite.

One month later, Barbara reunites with her mother and family, saying her goodbyes to Owen and David, who are joining the Pennsylvania militia. Her mother notices that Regina is missing, and they seek out to find her. Years later, on Christmas Eve, a pastor informs the whole family, including Barbara and her new husband Fritz, that the Indians' captives have arrived at Fort Carlisle. Hearing this, and believing Regina may be one of them, the family immediately reports to the fort after dinnertime. At the fort, Barbara and Marie are informed by Owen that David had been killed at the Battle of Bushy Run. The family at first does not find Regina, but when Barbara's mother sings a poem that Regina and Barbara would sing together, called "Alone Yet Not Alone", Regina begins muttering the poem, and realizes her mother is there. Regina runs to her mother and Barbara, and the family is whole once more.

As the credits roll, we find out that the Delaware Tribes were scattered across the country when defeated, the German pastor is known as the patriarch of the Lutheran Church, and that Regina and her mother rest next to each other in the Christ Lutheran Church Cemetery in Pennsylvania.

The film was given a limited release on September 27, 2013, in nine markets and grossed $125,775 in its opening weekend.[6] By the end of its three-week run on October 11, Alone yet Not Alone had grossed $133,546 in the domestic box office,[1] with a per screen average of $13,396. The film received a wider release on June 13, 2014.

The title song was performed by well-known evangelical Christian author Joni Eareckson Tada[7] and written by Bruce Broughton and Dennis Spiegel. It was nominated for an Academy Award for Best Original Song at the 86th Academy Awards,[8] but the nomination was rescinded on January 29, 2014, after the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences found that Broughton, a former governor and current executive committee member of the music branch of the Academy, had improperly contacted other branch members.[9] "No matter how well-intentioned the communication, using one's position as a former governor and current executive committee member to personally promote one's own Oscar submission creates the appearance of an unfair advantage", said Cheryl Boone Isaacs, Academy President.[10]

While not the first time in the history of the awards a nomination has been revoked, it is the first time the Academy has cited ethical grounds for doing so, and the first time it has done so to a scripted American-produced feature film.[4][11] Broughton responded that there was a double standard in the industry, alleging that his actions of sending out "70 or so emails" was no different from Academy Awards president Cheryl Boone Isaacs' involvement in films such as The Artist and The King's Speech as an Academy governor.[12]

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