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a finalist for the 1999
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Based on the New York Times best-selling novel by Ken Haruf, the story focuses on the emotional growth and changes that occur over a year's time in the lives of eight very different people, a heartstrong story of family and romance, tribulation and tenacity, set on the High Plains east of Denver.
In the small town of Holt, Colorado, a high school teacher is confronted with raising his two boys alone after their mother retreats first to the bedroom, then altogether. A teenage girl -- her father long since disappeared, her mother unwilling to have her in the house -- is pregnant, alone herself, with nowhere to go. And out in the country, two brothers, elderly bachelors, work the family homestead, the only world they've ever known.
From these unsettled lives emerges a vision of life, and of the town and landscape that bind them together -- their fates somehow overcoming the powerful circumstances of place and station, their confusion, curiosity, dignity and humor intact and resonant. As the milieu widens to embrace fully four generations, Kent Haruf displays an emotional and aesthetic authority to rival the past masters of a classic American tradition.
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Who's in it:
Starring Aidan Quinn, Rachel Griffiths, Zachery Bryan
Coming to Television 2004:
CBS - "Hallmark Hall of Fame"
Exec Producer: Richard Welch
Producer: Ron Mitchell
Director: Richard Pearce
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