A couple whose love story was the inspiration for the new hit film “The Vow” said they wished it drew more on their Christian faith.
The movie — starring Rachel McAdams and Channing Tatum — is based on the true-life story and book, “The Vow,” by Kim and Krickitt Carpenter.
The book draws heavily on the couple’s beliefs and the power of God to guide a marriage through very difficult times.
Just 10 weeks after their wedding, the couple survived a terrible car accident that left Krickitt in a coma with severe head trauma. When she woke, Krickitt was unable to remember anything from the last 18 months of her life and was essentially married to a stranger.
Throughout the book, it is the couple’s religious belief in the unbreakable vow of marriage that keeps them together.
“You make a promise before God with your wedding vows,” Krickitt Carpenter told FOX411.com. “You have to take that seriously.”
Kim Carpenter said, “The movie doesn’t talk about faith significantly. It would have been nice to see more of it. The first book we wrote was extremely embedded in our faith, but I think the movie does depict the inspiration of the battle to hang in there. I think the audience realizes we are a people of faith.”
Movie critics have also lamented the lack of clear references to the couple’s faith.
Sony Pictures did not respond to a request for comment.
“The Vow” raked in over $40 million last weekend and another $11 million on Valentine’s Day alone.
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