Amish: A Secret Life (movie)
- User score: 6.4
- Production country: United Kingdom
- Producer: Lynn Alleway
- Production companies: BBC Cymru Wales
- Genre: Documentary
- Release date: 8/2/2012
- Run time: 60 min.
Movie description
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.
