A young widower moves with his daughter into a North Carolina mountain town in 1934. He quickly takes up with a young woman with an illegitimate baby. First he must prove himself to her ...
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Cast
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| Kurt Russell | ... | Wayland Jackson | |
| Kelly McGillis | ... | Collie Wright | |
| Lloyd Bridges | ... | William Wright | |
| Mitchell Ryan | ... | Drury Campbell | |
| Jeffrey Meek | ... | Cole Campbell | |
| Don Michael Paul | ... | Young Wright | |
| Lanny Flaherty | ... | Gudger Wright | |
| Eileen Ryan | ... | Annie Wright | |
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Amelia Burnette | ... | Paula Jackson |
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David Dwyer | ... | Milton Wright |
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Bill Gribble | ... | Skeet Campbell |
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Wallace Merck | ... | Harmon Campbell |
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Walker Averitt | ... | Margaret Campbell |
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Walter Averitt | ... | Margaret Campbell (as Walker Averitt) |
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Dashiell Coleman | ... | Jonathan Wright |
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A young widower moves with his daughter into a North Carolina mountain town in 1934. He quickly takes up with a young woman with an illegitimate baby. First he must prove himself to her father and her three brothers. He does so first by joining them on a bear hunt and then by designing a clock tower for the small community. Trouble comes when it is revealed that the baby's father is the demented son of a mean clan across the river and they mean to take the child back. Written by John Sacksteder <jsackste@bellsouth.net>
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Country:
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14 April 1989 (USA) See more »Also Known As:
Winter People - Wie ein Blatt im Wind See more »Edit
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Opening Weekend USA:
$743,032, 14 April 1989, Limited ReleaseGross USA:
$2,023,282Company Credits
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Written by Jimmy Webb
Produced by Roscoe Beck (as Charles Roscoe Beck) and Jennifer Warnes
Performed by Jennifer Warnes
Courtesy of White Oak Songs
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The first film produced by Castle Rock Entertainment. See more »Goofs
The bottle of whiskey is noticeably fuller when Wayland picks it up than when Cole drinks from it a moment earlier. See more »Connections
Featured in Siskel & Ebert: Winter People/Say Anything.../Field of Dreams/She's Out of Control/Dead Calm (1989) See more »Soundtracks
Lightning in a BottleWritten by Jimmy Webb
Produced by Roscoe Beck (as Charles Roscoe Beck) and Jennifer Warnes
Performed by Jennifer Warnes
Courtesy of White Oak Songs
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After 1:07, to be exact, and all that time, the story was weak, the lines were unrealistic, accents poor, characters unestablished buy two great actors, at that, finding it very hard to make some good out of what they had to work with, misc. were bad, it finally started getting interesting. Not a complete waste of time, but I almost killed it at 25 minutes, then started skipping till it got half way descent. I would not recommend this movie for 2 hrs of your life, unless it's all you got to watch up in a cabin; Snowed in. It's been done before. Same story at least a dozon times. I see a lot of people wrote good things about it, so don't take my opinion too seriously. It might have something I missed, that made it good. I just couldn't take anymore of the what the first 25 min. had to offer.