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Winter People is a american film of genre Drama directed by Ted Kotcheff released in USA on 14 april 1989 with Kurt Russell
Winter People (1989)
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Add to a movie listWinter People is a 1989 romantic drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff. It stars Kurt Russell and Kelly McGillis.
The film 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.
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Into a small, poor Appalachian Mountains community in the Great Depression era arrive a young widower, Wayland Jackson, a clockmaker, and his 12-year-old daughter.Actors
Kurt Russell
(Wayland Jackson)
Gregory Peck
Kelly McGillis
(Collie Wright)
Lloyd Bridges
(William Wright)
Mitch Ryan
(Drury Campbell)
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