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Winter People

1989 · 1h 50m · Drama, Romance · United States of America · Rated PG-13 (US)

A passion so strong it kills.

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 with an illegitimate baby, and she and Wayland soon fall in love. Trouble starts when the identity of her baby's father is revealed.

Directed by
Ted Kotcheff
Written by
Carol Sobieski
Based on the novel by
John Ehle
Starring
Kurt Russell, Kelly McGillis, Lloyd Bridges, Mitchell Ryan
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