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A Christmas Without Snow (1980) -- A divorced woman moves to a new city with her child, trying to build her life again. She joins the choir of a local church but has some personality conflicts with the choirmaster...

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Director:
John Korty
Writers:
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Release Date:
9 December 1980 (USA) more
Genre:
Drama | Music more
Tagline:
Destined to be a Christmas classic.
Plot:
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Cast

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Michael Learned ... Zoe Jensen
John Houseman ... Ephraim Adams
Ramon Bieri ... Henry Quist

James Cromwell ... Reverend Lohman
Valerie Curtin ... Muriel

David Knell ... Terry
Calvin Levels ... Wendell
Ruth Nelson ... Inez
Beah Richards ... Wendell's Grandma
William Swetland ... Hartley
Ed Bogas ... Seth
Daisietta Kim ... Maisie Kim
Joy Carlin ... Cora Newman
Anne Lawder ... Evangeline Burns

Barbara Tarbuck ... Carol Thorpe
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Runtime:
USA:95 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.33 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Mono
Certification:
UK:U
Filming Locations:
San Francisco, California, USA
Company:
Korty Films more

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Ephraim Adams: Mrs. Burns is right, of course; you are amateurs, unlike certain pseudo-professionals like myself who insist on slave wages. Your voluntary and steadfast attendance at these rehearsals fully qualifies you for any definition of the word "amateur". What Mrs... more
Soundtrack:
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7 out of 12 people found the following comment useful.
Quiet and effective as well as entertaining, 8 January 2000
Author: Marta from United States

This is one of those TV movies that builds quietly and steadily to an emotional finish. Michael Learned plays a recently divorced woman who moves to another city with her slightly rebellious teenager. She has to build her life again among strangers, and she begins by joining a local church and their choir. The choirmaster, played with real spleen by John Houseman, is a perfectionist and they clash right from the start. Learned has many other pressures in her life, not the least of which is an ex-husband trying to gain favor with his son, and she begins to feel that the choirmaster is more an enemy than a friend. Just when she's ready to quit the choir, several things happen that reaffirm her faith in God and in herself, and she stays.

This isn't shown anymore, and is difficult to find. But it's worth a look if you run across it, and it's perfect for the Christmas season.

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