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Christy - Return to Cutter Gap by Chuck Bowman
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DVD Cover InformationActor: Andy Stahl, Bruce McKinnon, James Waterston, Lauren Lee Smith, Stewart Finlay-McLennan Director: Chuck Bowman Brand: Lions Gate Producer: Chuck Bowman Producer: Deboragh Gabler Producer: John Schneider Producer: John Steven Agoglia Producer: Nancy LeSourd Writer: Catherine Marshall Writer: Tom Blomquist DVD: Region Code 1 Audio: English (Unknown), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Subtitled); Spanish (Subtitled); French (Subtitled); English (Original Language), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo; English (Published), Dolby Digital 2.0 Stereo Format: Color, DVD, Letterboxed, NTSC Picture Format: 1.85:1 Running Time: 89 minutes DVD Release Date: 2001-08-28 Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested) Studio: Thomas Nelson
Movie Reviews of Christy - Return to Cutter GapMovie Review: A Tremendous Delight Summary: 5 Stars
The three part "Christy" series starring Lauren Lee Smith was phenomenal! I've read the prior reviews and honestly I think it all depends on how you approach the new series. In my mind, Lauren Lee Smith, was the perfect Christy. Physically she fit the part far better than Kellie Martin did. The chemistry Lauren shared with both of her male co-stars is entirely evident. After viewing this series, I became interested in watching the original "Christy" series starring Kellie Martin, which I had viewed two or three episodes years ago. I just didn't find Kellie Martin as interesting to watch in the role of Christy. Her chemistry with Dr. Neil was not obvious. To be honest, their substanial height difference bothered me. To me, Lauren Lee Smith, fit the part much better. You can believe the attraction between Christy and Dr. Neil. Since Dr. Neil is played by the same actor in both series, I've deduced that Lauren Lee Smith was simply a better choice to play Christy. I just don't think I would have been as impressed by this series with Kellie Martin resuming the role of Christy. Therefore, I am happy that it worked out that new actors in the roles of Christy and David Grantland needed to be cast, because I think the series was made much better for it. My recommendation is to give this new installment a try, especially if your mind is open to viewing a new and better Christy in the title role.
Summary of Christy - Return to Cutter GapSet in early twentieth century Tennessee, this touching family film tells the story of a schoolteacher, Christy Huddleston, who learns lessons in loyalty, faith, and friendship when she attempts to force a small community into progressing with the outside world. Considered an outsider by the residents of Cutter Gap, Christy is beloved as a teacher but begins to stir up conflict with her pleas for progress and stories of an outside world of skyscrapers and modern conveniences. When a free-spirited woman aviator crash lands in Cutter Gap, the attention is taken off Christy . . . until a series of robberies occur. Believing the thieves would never have come if it were not for the new road that Christy had built, the town unites against her. Faced with this series of setbacks, Christy contemplates returning home to North Carolina, but is persuaded to stay when she realizes she has much more to learn about her new friends . . . and herself! Christy (Lauren Lee Smith) and the rest of the Cutter Gap community are just beginning to recover from a typhoid epidemic when a storm hits the rural alcove. In A New Beginning, the second of a two-part PAX production that began with A Change of Seasons, she gets stranded in the forest with Dr. MacNeill (Stewart Finlay-McLennan), and her fiancé David (James Waterston) risks life and limb to rescue her. Despite a loss of property, the town makes it through the storm relatively intact, but many have been changed by the experience. Christy, for instance, has come to see Dr. MacNeill in a new light, thus questioning her engagement to David. Will she marry the preacher or break off the engagement? Marriage is on the minds of several characters in this engaging recollection by the elderly Christy about her experiences as a young schoolteacher in the Smoky Mountains. Age 8 and older. --Kathleen C. Fennessy
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