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Winter People
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Directed by	Ted Kotcheff
Screenplay by	Carol Sobieski
Based on	The Winter People 1982 novel by John Ehle
Produced by	Robert H. Solo
Starring	Kurt Russell Kelly McGillis Lloyd Bridges Mitchell Ryan
Cinematography	François Protat
Edited by	Thom Noble
Music by	John Scott
Production companies	Nelson Entertainment Castle Rock Entertainment^[1] (Uncredited)
Distributed by	Columbia Pictures
Release dates	January 12, 1989 (1989-01-12) (West Germany) April 14, 1989 (1989-04-14) (United States)
Running time	110 minutes
Country	United States
Language	English
Box office	$2,023,282

Winter People is a 1989 American romantic-drama film directed by Ted Kotcheff, and starring Kurt Russell and Kelly McGillis. It is based on the novel by John Ehle. 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, and she and Wayland soon fall in love.

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Plot

Young widowed clockmaker Wayland Jackson and his 12-year-old daughter, Paula, enter a small Depression-era community in the Appalachian Mountains literally by accident. Wayland becomes acquainted with Collie Wright (a single mother with a newborn child, Jonathan) who gives them shelter from the cold. As he becomes more familiar to the villagers, Wayland tries to persuade them that he could build a beautiful clock for the public square. His proposal is met with considerable skepticism, and then he is given the town's consent.

He is attracted to Collie, but their lives are threatened by family members from the Wright family's rival clan, the Campbells, led by patriarch Drury. The youngest son, Cole, is the father of Collie's baby. Cole wanted to run away with Collie but ultimately left her, fearing Drury's wrath. One night, Cole Campbell arrives in Collie's cabin, and goes into a violent rage once he learns of Collie and Wayland's relationship. Wayland and Cole get into a fistfight in the frozen pond near the cabin. Cole is found dead the next morning, whereupon his relatives demand that the Wrights now owe them a life. To save the lives of her brothers and Jackson, Collie gives them Cole's child.

Wayland and Collie soon are engaged. Wayland confronts the Campbells and attempts to persuade Drury and his clan to end their feud with the Wrights, but they chase him away. The following spring, Drury appears at the pair's wedding and returns Jonathan to his mother.