UNITED STATES · 1989

Winter People

Ted Kotcheff
rural poverty illegitimacy and social stigma single parenthood forbidden love small town secrets
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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.

Year1989
CountryUnited States
DirectorTed Kotcheff
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