Winter People (1989) on Netflix
Wayland Jackson, a widower and clockmaker, and his daughter Paula reach a poor mountain village in 1930s North Carolina. Collie Wright, raising a newborn on her own, gives them shelter.
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- Netflix2.1/5
- IMDb6.2/101,917 votes
- Rotten Tomatoes20%
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Plot summary
Wayland Jackson, a widowed clockmaker, and his twelve-year-old daughter Paula come into a small, poor village in the Appalachian Mountains of North Carolina during the Depression. Collie Wright, who has a newborn son named Jonathan and no husband, shelters them from the cold. As the villagers grow used to Wayland, he puts a proposal to them: a clock that would stand in the public square. They meet it with doubt, then give their consent. He is drawn to Collie, and her family, the Wrights, are caught in a long feud with the rival Campbell clan and its patriarch, Drury Campbell.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about Winter People (1989)
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- The production's only modification to the location was a wooden bridge over a local stream, and during filming a flood washed that bridge away while strong winds tore down parts of the set.
- Producer Robert H. Solo said he spent five years trying to get Winter People made, blaming potential investors' lack of enthusiasm on the film being a period piece.
- Winter People was shot in Plumtree, North Carolina, near where John Ehle, the author of the source novel, was born and raised, and the production used the town with no dressing.
