Christy Movie Review 1994

Pilot movie for the TV series finds 19-year-old Christy Huddleston (Martin) leaving her privileged Southern life to teach school in the Great Smoky Mountains. It's 1912 in Cutter Gap, Tennessee, and her students are literally dirt poor, with ignorance and supersitition the norm. Christy's inspiration in Miss Alice (Daly), a middle-aged Quaker who runs the mission school. And Christy needs encouragement as she struggles to cope with her new life and responsibilities. Based on the novel by Catherine Marshall, which is a fictional biography of her mother.

Distribution

Goodtimes Entertainment, 16 E. 40th St., New York, NY 10016-0113, Phone: (212)951-3000, Email: information@goodtimes.com, URL: http://www.goodtimes.com

Available on VHS
Running time 90 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

TV Pilot Movies, School Daze, Period Piece: 1910s, Dedicated Teachers, American South, Coming of Age

Cast

Kellie Martin, Tyne Daly, Tess Harper, Randall Batinkoff, Annabelle Price, Stewart Finlay-McLennan

Director

Michael Rhodes

Music

Ron Ramin

Producer

Patricia Green, Barney Rosenzweig, Ken Wales, MTM Enterprises