This made-for-television film tells the story of former lovers who find themselves traveling cross country on the same train during Christmas week.
Dermot Mulroney plays Tom Langdon, a former war correspondent who now writes pedestrian newspaper features for housewives. Kimberly Williams-Paisley plays Eleanor Carter, a screenwriter who is making the journey at the insistence of film director Max Powers (Danny Glover), who hopes she will pen his next film success.
Along the way, they get to know a colorful cast of fellow passengers who might inspire them both to write something meaningful. Or to embrace the Christmas messages of brotherly love and forgiveness.
Besides the required love story, there is a mystery that revolves around the disappearance of some belongings. And suspense when the train might be snowbound in the Rockies. The close quarters require that everyone on board becomes acquainted and involved in the lives of their fellow travelers. And unseen forces seem to be directing the destinies of Tom and Eleanor.
Dermot Mulroney plays Tom Langdon, a former war correspondent who now writes pedestrian newspaper features for housewives. Kimberly Williams-Paisley plays Eleanor Carter, a screenwriter who is making the journey at the insistence of film director Max Powers (Danny Glover), who hopes she will pen his next film success.
Along the way, they get to know a colorful cast of fellow passengers who might inspire them both to write something meaningful. Or to embrace the Christmas messages of brotherly love and forgiveness.
Besides the required love story, there is a mystery that revolves around the disappearance of some belongings. And suspense when the train might be snowbound in the Rockies. The close quarters require that everyone on board becomes acquainted and involved in the lives of their fellow travelers. And unseen forces seem to be directing the destinies of Tom and Eleanor.