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Winter People (1989)

Winter People poster
Directed by
Ted Kotcheff
Genre
drama film, romance film
Country
United States
Runtime
1h 50m
Rated
PG-13
Rating
5.6 of 10 from 35 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb

How it feels

A widower and his young daughter arrive in a poor North Carolina mountain village during the Great Depression. They are taken in by a single mother and the two adults begin to fall in love.

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What happens

Winter People is a 1989 American romantic-drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff, and starring Kurt Russell and Kelly McGillis. It is based on the novel by John Ehle. Wayland Jackson, a widower with a young daughter, moves to a small, impoverished mountain village in North Carolina, circa 1934. They are taken in by Collie Wright, a single mother, and she and Wayland soon fall in love. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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