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Winter Solstice is a american film of genre Drama released in USA on 8 april 2005 with Anthony LaPaglia
Winter Solstice (2005)
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Add to a movie listWinter Solstice is a 2004 American drama film written and directed by Josh Sternfeld. The screenplay focuses on the efforts of a man to interact with and relate to his sons in the years following the accidental death of his wife.
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New Jersey landscape gardener Jim Winters is struggling to raise his sons, high school student Peter and older Gabe, as a single father. Gabe announces he is leaving home to move to Tampa, Florida, although he's vague about both his reason for doing so and what he plans to do there once he arrives. Instead of discussing his plans with his devoted girlfriend Stacey, he plans to drop her. Aware of what he has in mind, she quietly retreats from him to make it difficult for him to achieve his goal. Peter, who was in the car with his mother when she was killed in an accident five years earlier, is a rebellious, hearing-impaired underachiever doing poorly in school, despite the efforts of his teacher Mr. Bricker, who urges him to work harder to meet his potential.Actors
Anthony LaPaglia
(Jim Winters)
Aaron Stanford
(Gabe Winters)
Mark Webber
(Pete Winters)
Michelle Monaghan
(Stacey)
Allison Janney
(Molly Ripkin)
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