Rating: PG
Genre:
Romance
Release Date: 08/28/2001
SubTitles: English/French/Espanol
Dubbed: English
Sound: 2
Run Time: 89 Minutes
Flags: Suitable for Teens
Distributor/Studio: Lions Gate
Based on the best-selling books by
Catherine Marshall, the original TV series
Christy focused on 19-year-old
Christy Huddleston, an idealistic schoolteacher who left a life of wealth and comfort behind to accept a job in the backward mountain community of Cutter, NC, in 1912. First telecast as a two-part, four-hour
PAX Network miniseries on May 13 and May 14, 2001,
Christy: Return to Cutter Gap picks up where the weekly series left off.
Lauren Lee Smith replaces
Kellie Martin as
Christy, while
Stewart Finlay-McLennan repeats his series role as the community's agnostic, Scottish-born doctor
Neil McNeill. In part one of
Return to Cutter Gap, titled "
A Change of Seasons," the year is 1913, and Cutter Gap is in the throes of a deadly typhoid epidemic. The superstitious mountaineers believe that the illness has been brought on by such "outsiders" as
Christy Huddleston and the community's new minister,
Rev. David Grantland (
James Waterston).
Dr. McNeill realizes that the real cause of the epidemic is Cutter Gap's brackish water and squalid living conditions, but he is unable to convince the locals of his findings. Meanwhile,
Christy suffers a crisis of faith when one of her closest friends dies of the fever, and on another front, she finds herself romantically torn between
McNeill and
Grantland. Part two, "
A New Beginning," takes place three months later. This time, the community is literally torn apart by a raging storm. As the rest of the citizens head to the highest point in Cutter Gap,
Christy and
Dr. McNeill are stranded in a tiny hunter's shack. Shocked when
McNeill declares his love for her,
Christy rushes into the deluge, contracting a deadly fever. Also complicating matters is the presence of attractive aviatrix
Harriet Quimby (
Claudette Mink), who has apparently set her cap for
McNeill. The story concludes with a wedding -- but which man does
Christy choose for her life partner? Filmed in British Columbia,
Christy: Return to Cutter Gap was originally telecast under the title
Christy: Choices of the Heart).
~ Hal Erickson, All Movie Guide
;)
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