Christy: Return to Cutter Gap

Christy: Return to Cutter Gap
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Directed by	Chuck Bowman
Written by	Tom Blomquist (teleplay) Catherine Marshall (novel author)
Starring	Lauren Lee Smith Stewart Finlay-McLennan James Waterston Diane Ladd
Distributed by	Pax TV network
Release date(s)	November 19, 2000
Running time	89 minutes

Christy: Return to Cutter Gap (also known as Christy: The Movie) is a 2000 made-for-tv movie starring Lauren Lee Smith, Stewart Finlay-McLennan, James Waterston and Diane Ladd.

Summary outline

Based on Catherine Marshall's novel Christy and the follow-up of the TV series Christy, this PAX Television adaptation features Lauren Lee Smith as the 19-year-old schoolteacher who flounders and perseveres in an isolated mountain community in the early 1900s. Set against the backdrop of Tennessee's Great Smoky Mountains, this film begins with an elderly Christy (played by Sheila Moore) returning to the long-abandoned mission where she once taught. It premiered on the Pax TV network in the US on November 19, 2000.

Synopsis

Set in early 20th century Tennessee, this film tells the story of schoolteacher Christy Huddleston who attempts to force a small community into progressing with the outside world. Considered an outsider by the residents of Cutter Gap, North Carolina native Christy is beloved as a teacher but has begun to stir up conflict with her pleas for progress and stories of an outside world of skyscrapers and modern conveniences. When an aviatrix 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 weren't for the new road 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.

Region 1: DVD release (USA, Canada and US territories)

DVD Name	Release Date
Christy: Return to Cutter Gap	August 28, 2001
Christy: A Change of Seasons	August 28, 2001
Christy: A New Beginning	August 28, 2001

External links

• Christy: Return to Cutter Gap at the Internet Movie Database
• Christy: Return to Cutter Gap at AllRovi