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Winter People

Winter People

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Status

Released

Release Date

Apr 14, 1989

Runtime

1h 50m

Genres

Drama, Romance

User Score

56%

Original Title

Winter People

Production Companies

Nelson Entertainment, Castle Rock Entertainment, Columbia Pictures

Director

Ted Kotcheff

Description

Wayland Jackson (Russell), 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 (McGillis), a single mother with an illegitimate baby, and she and Wayland soon fall in love. Trouble starts when the identity of her baby's father is revealed.