Rating: 
Summary: Under-rated film.
Review: John Ehle is an excellent regional writer and "Winter People" is probably the best of his works. The movie adaptation holds true to the book and for the critical viewer tired of cliques, car chases, and shallow characters, this film is a rare luxury. There are no stock characters in this film. And the storyline is different ... holding you tight to your armchair to the very end. The acting is tremendous: Kurt Russell is finally challenged to a multi-part role befitting his talented depths. The symbolic uses of the clock and the bear-killing rite are intriguing elements in the film. "Winter People" is an under-rated film.
Rating:
Summary: Under-rated film.
Review: John Ehle is an excellent regional writer and "Winter People" is probably the best of his works. The movie adaptation holds true to the book and for the critical viewer tired of cliques, car chases, and shallow characters, this film is a rare luxury. There are no stock characters in this film. And the storyline is different ... holding you tight to your armchair to the very end. The acting is tremendous: Kurt Russell is finally challenged to a multi-part role befitting his talented depths. The symbolic uses of the clock and the bear-killing rite are intriguing elements in the film. "Winter People" is an under-rated film.
Rating:
Summary: The best movie for dates
Review: The innocent intensity coupled with the best backwooods life style community setting brings the present so gracfully back to the hatfields and Mcoy fueds that for the first time unveils this intense proud independent allmost starving yet amazingly fruitful communtitys. their decions they are facd to make on a second by second basis are Never easy but always fill with pride secrets and survival. Truly a beautful filming,intence unuseual sit on the edge of your seat dramaamazingly with no sex or violence. Lonleyness hardships excitedment tears and laughfter is what Winter people are about. Someone stole my only copy and I really wish I could find it again as i would frame it on my wall next to Trains planes and automobiles. Which of course is a totaly opposite movie. The best "comedy" ever made.
Rating: 
Summary: A tender love story in a troubled place and difficult time.
Review: This is a powerful tale of a love that emerged during a difficult time in history, and in a place where trouble and conflict were a way of life.Kurt Russell leaves his small surburban home town when his clock making career fails during the depression, in search of a new start. His car breaks down on a lonely, mountain road where he meets Kelly Mc Gillis, who offers him shelter in her back-woods cabin for the night. He soon learns of her complicated, forbidden relationship with a man who is from a rival family clan, and becomes involved in protecting her from him and his family. With his clock making skill, Russell's character is able to bring hope to the town by restoring the clock in the church steeple. The restoration of the clock, like the relationship that develops between the Russell and Mc Gillis characters, bring light to an otherwise dark world with little hope. It is a simple and powerful story of changing the destiny of lives in rural America. It seemed to go unnoticed, but is a favorite of many of my own friends.
Rating:
Summary: Worth seeing and worth buying!
Review: This is a wonderful movie; too bad it did not get the credit it deserves. It is rare that a movie is as good as the book (I read the book and saw the movie)but this one comes close. The story is interesting and fast paced. THe strength of family and the power of love keep viewers eager to see how this tale is resolved. The scenery is great; even now it is possible to visit the set in rural NC. There are so many junky movies these days but this one is worth seeing - and worth purchasing. Please let me know if it is re-released. thanx
Rating:
Summary: Winter People
Review: This is probably one of the simplest and sweetest love stories I have ever seen. This woman loved a man whom she was forbidden to love, had his child and then by accident fell in love with another man. She made the ultimate sacrifice by giving her child to the Man who hated her family the most. The ending was just wondeful. I taped this movie from the satellite and have watched it so much it is almost worn out. I would love to be able to buy this movie.
Rating:
Summary: Winter People
Review: This is probably one of the simplest and sweetest love stories I have ever seen. This woman loved a man whom she was forbidden to love, had his child and then by accident fell in love with another man. She made the ultimate sacrifice by giving her child to the Man who hated her family the most. The ending was just wondeful. I taped this movie from the satellite and have watched it so much it is almost worn out. I would love to be able to buy this movie.
Rating:
Summary: Underappreciated! Very interesting and compelling...
Review: This was a very memorable, unusually compelling movie with outstanding performances by Kurt Russell and Kelly McGillis. What a great movie! Kurt Russell was absolutely fabulous... almost as good as in Tombstone.
Rating: 
Summary: A real oddity--starts terrible, gets good.
Review: Winter People really isn't a three-star movie, but a movie with a one-star first half and a five-star second half. I doubt if many renters would have the patience to stick with this movie all the way through, but if they do, they will be rewarded. Everything at the beginning seems wrong: The characters' actions seem inexplicable (i.e. Kurt Russell stopping his truck in the middle of a creek); Russell acts and sounds like he flunked out of the Famous Announcers' School; Kelly McGillis acts and sounds like sixth runner-up in the Elly May Clampett impression contest; all the other actors also seem off-kilter, especially Don Michael Paul, giving one of the weirdest and most histrionic performances in cinematic history as McGillis' kid brother. But then, about halfway through, the father of McGillis' baby returns for a duel to the death with Russell. The fight itself is quite exciting, but even more, the movie actually gets good afterward. The dialogue suddenly takes on weight and believability, as do all the performances (except for Mr. Paul's); McGillis is particularly moving in her big emotional scenes. This is a great movie for connoisseurs of cinematic schizophrenia, or merely for viewers who have the patience to wait for the good stuff to come along!
Rating:
Summary: A real oddity--starts terrible, gets good.
Review: Winter People really isn't a three-star movie, but a movie with a one-star first half and a five-star second half. I doubt if many renters would have the patience to stick with this movie all the way through, but if they do, they will be rewarded. Everything at the beginning seems wrong: The characters' actions seem inexplicable (i.e. Kurt Russell stopping his truck in the middle of a creek); Russell acts and sounds like he flunked out of the Famous Announcers' School; Kelly McGillis acts and sounds like sixth runner-up in the Elly May Clampett impression contest; all the other actors also seem off-kilter, especially Don Michael Paul, giving one of the weirdest and most histrionic performances in cinematic history as McGillis' kid brother. But then, about halfway through, the father of McGillis' baby returns for a duel to the death with Russell. The fight itself is quite exciting, but even more, the movie actually gets good afterward. The dialogue suddenly takes on weight and believability, as do all the performances (except for Mr. Paul's); McGillis is particularly moving in her big emotional scenes. This is a great movie for connoisseurs of cinematic schizophrenia, or merely for viewers who have the patience to wait for the good stuff to come along!
| 
