Christmas Comes to Willow Creek

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Christmas Comes to Willow Creek

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Directed by Richard Lang
Produced by Billie André
Blue André
Written by Michael Norell
Andy Siegel
Starring John Schneider
Tom Wopat
Kim Delaney
Zachary Ansley
Distributed by ITC Entertainment
Release date(s) 1987 USA
Running time 96 min.
Language English

Christmas Comes to Willow Creek is a 1987 American film made for TV and directed by Richard Lang and produced by Billie André and Blue André The screenplay was written by Michael Norell and Andy Siegel, The film stars John Schneider, Tom Wopat, Kim Delaney, Zachary Ansley, Joy Coghill and Hoyt Axton.


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Willow Creek, Alaska is going through problems because the town's main business, a cannery, has closed and many residents no longer have jobs. Ray and Pete are brothers; although they share the same profession (truck drivers), they are different as day and night.

Pete (played by Tom Wopat) is trying to figure out what to do with his rebellious son Michael (played by Zachary Ansley); meantime, he also has to deal with Ray (played by John Schneider), a troublesome recluse who has problems of his own, including a pregnant spouse.

Ray and Pete are hired by an old friend Al (played by Hoyt Axton) to bring Christmas presents and a very big surprise from California all the way up to his home town of Willow Creek, Alaska. The brothers do not realize that they will have to rely on one another and along the way, the brothers and Pete's son argue and get stuck in a blizzard; meanwhile Ray's wife goes into labor. As she gives birth, they finally reconcile with each other, and arrive at their destination greeted by a crowd of happy townspeople.

This project, along with a guest appearance by Wopat on the WB series Smallville, are the only projects that Schneider and Wopat, co-stars of the 1980s TV series "The Dukes of Hazzard," have teamed up for that doesn't include playing the Duke cousins.

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