Winter People (1989)

Director
Ted Kotcheff

Main cast
Kurt Russell; Kelly McGillis; Lloyd Bridges; Mitchell Ryan; Jeffrey Meek

Genres
Drama, Romance

Description
A young widower moves with his daughter into a North Carolina mountain town in 1934. He quickly takes up with a young woman with an illegitimate baby. First he must prove himself to her father and her three brothers. He does so first by joining them on a bear hunt and then by designing a clock tower for the small community. Trouble comes when it is revealed that the baby's father is the demented son of a mean clan across the river and they mean to take the child back.


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