Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End

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Sarah, Plain and Tall: Winter's End is the third of three television movies based on the children's books of Patricia MacLachlan. The first was Sarah, Plain and Tall and its film and book sequel was Skylark. Though they do not share a title, the events in the film Winter's End are taken from MacLachlan's book Caleb's Story, though in order to appeal to a more adult audience than the children's books the events are expanded and the tone made slightly more serious.

The 1999 movie sequel to Skylark stars Glenn Close and Christopher Walken as Sarah and Jacob Witting. Emily Osment plays Cassie Witting, the young daughter of Sarah and Jacob. Cassie's grandfather John (played by Jack Palance) reappears one winter after, wanting to make amends with his son Jacob. While they wait for spring to come, Cassie's brother Caleb (played by Christopher Bell) writes in a journal given to him by his older sister Anna before she left to work for the town doctor. The town doctor is also the father of her fiance, who is away at war. Cassie loves her grandfather very much, and usually won't leave him alone. She always wants to play hide and seek with him, but Caleb is the one who usually has to find her. The relationship between Jacob and his father is strained; Jacob's leg is broken when he trips over a tool during a fight with his father in the barn. A large blizzard comes up, and Caleb goes out to check on Matilda, his grandfather's horse who is about to have a foal. The rope that connects from the barn to the house breaks and so Caleb sleeps in the barn. Sarah goes looking for Caleb in the middle of the night; she falls and loses her way in the deep snow, nearly succumbing to hypothermia. Will she live or will she die?