Winter Passing (2005) on Netflix
A book editor offers Reese Holden a fortune for the letters her father wrote to her mother. She returns to Michigan and finds a former student and a musician living with him.
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Plot summary
Reese Holden is an actress and bartender in New York City and the daughter of Don Holden, a famous novelist who has become a recluse. A publishing agent offers her a hundred thousand dollars for the letters her father wrote to her late mother, and Reese travels to her childhood home in Michigan to get them. She finds the house shared by Corbit, a Christian musician, and Shelly, a former student of Don's, while Don writes and drinks in the garage. Reese clashes with Shelly and argues with her father about the neglect she felt as a child. She also gets to know Corbit, who declines her advances.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Winter Passing (2005)
Can contain spoilers, watch the movie first.
- Winter Passing began as an idea for a two-act play, playwright Adam Rapp said; a J.D. Salinger fan, he knew someone who knew Salinger's son Matt, whose father opened boxes of manuscripts he had worked on for 50 years.
- Winter Passing was released in U.S. theaters in February 2006 by Yari Film Group, the parent company of Stratus, making it the first self-distributed release under the Yari Film Group banner.
