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== Plot Summary == | == Plot Summary == | ||
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Willow Creek, Alaska is facing the prospect of a bleak Christmas after the cannery, a major local employer, shut down. Trucking business owner Al Bensinger (Hoyt Axton) wants to surprise his home town by taking up a truckload of presents from his base in California, but ill health makes him change his plans. While Al stays in California, he employs brothers Pete (Tom Wopat)) and Ray (John Schneider) to make the run. | |||
Pete and Ray don't see eye to eye, and are barely on speaking terms at the start of their journey. Pete also has to bring along his teenage son, Michael (Zachary Ansley), who is angry with his truck-driving father for his long absences from home. Along the way, matters are complicated further when they pick up Ray's pregnant estranged wife, Jessie (Kim Delaney), who Pete had dated after his first wife died. | |||
The four are finally nearing Willow Creek when they get stuck in blizzard. A passing shepherd named Domingo (Paul Beckett) leads them to the shelter of a nearby house, where he acts as midwife during the birth of Ray and Jessie's child. Outside, the brothers clear the air with a fist fight, but re-enter the house when they hear the baby crying. | |||
Next morning, the people of Willow Creek find the truck in a snow drift, but there's no sign of Domingo, his sheep, or even the house. Back in town, the presents are unloaded, and Ray finds several sides of frozen beef in the back of the truck. He realizes that Al wants him to put his chili-making skills to use (Ray was runner-up in a coast-to-coast chili making contest) and re-open the cannery. Ray and Jessie decide to stay in Willow Creek with their new baby, and Pete tells Michael that Al's offered him a partnership in the trucking business, so he won't be away from home anymore. | |||
== Commentary == | == Commentary == | ||
Latest revision as of 15:28, 21 August 2017
Release Date: 20 December 1987
Directed by: Richard Lang
Suggested by Material by: Peter L. Keys
Teleplay by: Michael Norell
Story by: Michael Norell and Andy Siegel
Plot Summary
Willow Creek, Alaska is facing the prospect of a bleak Christmas after the cannery, a major local employer, shut down. Trucking business owner Al Bensinger (Hoyt Axton) wants to surprise his home town by taking up a truckload of presents from his base in California, but ill health makes him change his plans. While Al stays in California, he employs brothers Pete (Tom Wopat)) and Ray (John Schneider) to make the run.
Pete and Ray don't see eye to eye, and are barely on speaking terms at the start of their journey. Pete also has to bring along his teenage son, Michael (Zachary Ansley), who is angry with his truck-driving father for his long absences from home. Along the way, matters are complicated further when they pick up Ray's pregnant estranged wife, Jessie (Kim Delaney), who Pete had dated after his first wife died.
The four are finally nearing Willow Creek when they get stuck in blizzard. A passing shepherd named Domingo (Paul Beckett) leads them to the shelter of a nearby house, where he acts as midwife during the birth of Ray and Jessie's child. Outside, the brothers clear the air with a fist fight, but re-enter the house when they hear the baby crying.
Next morning, the people of Willow Creek find the truck in a snow drift, but there's no sign of Domingo, his sheep, or even the house. Back in town, the presents are unloaded, and Ray finds several sides of frozen beef in the back of the truck. He realizes that Al wants him to put his chili-making skills to use (Ray was runner-up in a coast-to-coast chili making contest) and re-open the cannery. Ray and Jessie decide to stay in Willow Creek with their new baby, and Pete tells Michael that Al's offered him a partnership in the trucking business, so he won't be away from home anymore.
Commentary
Trivia
Bloopers
Cast
- John Schneider as Ray
- Tom Wopat as Pete
- Kim Delaney as Jessie
- Zachary Ansley as Michael
- Joy Coghill as Charlotte
- Antony Holland
- Hoyt Axton as Al
- Dwight Koss as Mayor Newman
- Barbara Russell as Edna Mae
- Ted Stidder as Doc
- Robert Forsythe as Chief Cobb
- Charissa Reeves as Sabrina
- Geordie Needham as Thurgood
- Robin Mossley as Cecil
- Brian MacDonald (as Brian Mac Donald) as Dwayne
- Doug Mills as Zeb
- Chuck McLeod as Joe
- Paul Beckett as Domingo
- Rick Otto as Paramedic
- Frances Cooper as Mrs. Al
- Lelani Marrell as Turtle
- Janet Wright as Martha Jane
- Beatrice Boepple as Brandy
- William S. Taylor (as William Taylor) as State Trooper
- Tom McBeath as Sergeant
Crew
- Music by: Charles Fox
- Editing by: Gerald Shepard (as Jerry Shepard)
- Director of Photography: Brenton Spencer
- Co-Producer: Jeffrey Fischgrund
- Produced by: Blue André
- Associate Producer: Margaret Murphy
- Executive in Charge of Production: Dennis A. Brown
- Los Angeles Casting: Mike Fenton, Jane Feinberg and Judy Taylor C.S.A.
- Canadian Casting: Lynne Carrow and Sid Kozak
- Unit Production Manager: Robert Frederick (as Robert A. Frederick)
- 1st Assistant Director: Lee Knippelberg
- 2nd Assistant Director: Karen Robyn
- Script Supervisor: Susan Weir
- Location Manager: Mark Smith
- Production Designer: Richard Hudolin
- Art Director: John Blackie (as John S. Blackie)
- Set Decorator: Janet Clark
- Property Master: Graham Coutts
- Special Effects Coordinator: David Gauthier (as Dave Gauthier)
- Costume Designer: Sheila Bingham
- Costumer: David Lisle
- Hair Stylist: Janet MacDonald (as Janet Ulmer)
- Make-up Artist: Todd McIntosh (as Todd Mc Intosh)
- Gaffer: Len Wolfe
- Key Grip: Dave Gordon (as David Gordon)
- Sound Mixer: Larry Sutton
- Film Editor: LaReine Johnston (as Lareine Johnston)
- Music Editing: Ken Johnson
- Music Supervisor: Clearing House, Ltd.
- Sound Editing: Echo Film Services, Inc.
- Assistant to Producer: Tony Byrnes (as Toni Byrnes)
- Production Administrator: Skates Naiman (as Sandi 'Skates' Naiman)
- Special Thanks for: The Yellowbird
Provided by: Freightliner of Canada Ltd. - The Producers wish to thank:
The British Columbia Film Commission
The Yukon Film Promotion Office
And the people of Vancouver and Dawson City
for their friendship and cooperation. - Blue André Productions in association with ITC Entertainment Group