Christy: Choices of the Heart
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Cast & Crew
Emily Perkins
Shea Hampton
Tessa Richards
Tyler Williamson
Jacob Witkin
Michael Hunter Lilly
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Young teacher Christy Huddleston celebrates her one-year anniversary in Cutter Gap, Tennessee. It is the beginning of the 20th century, and a deadly typhoid epidemic hits the residents of the isolated mountain community. Dr. MacNeill exhausts himself caring for them, trying to get them to see that their own water and lack of sanitation is making them sick. The tragic death of her cherished friend, Fairlight Spencer, affects Christy in cathartic and intimate ways, sending her into an emotional tailspin and catapulting her into a primal crisis of faith in which she questions the fairness and even the existence of God. Then, Reverend David Grantland contracts the disease. Fearing for his life, Christy prays for David, who recovers. MacNeill overhears her pleas to God. Sensing Christy's love for David, MacNeill decides he will leave town. Christy is torn because she's not sure if she loves David, even though she has accepted his proposal of marriage.
A few months later, Christy and David are finalizing their wedding plans when a surprise vistor shows up -- Dr. MacNeill. Suddenly, a torrential storm hits the mountain cove; as winds and floods wash away cabins, the residents seek refuge in the mission house. At the height of the storm, MacNeill and Christy are stranded in a hunter's cabin where, before it's too late, the doctor proposes marriage. Before she can sort out her feelings, Christy bolts into the torrential rain, running and falling into a steep ravine. MacNeill rescues her and tends to her back at the cabin where she starts burning up with fever. The following morning, when her fever breaks, MacNeill carries her back to the mission house. Christy's struggles to survive the spiritual, emotional and physical tests that she had endured, have brought her to a place of newfound, adult maturity. At the very moment Christy realizes that she can maintain a life without either Grantland or MacNeill, she makes her choice of a groom.
Cast
Emily Perkins
Shea Hampton
Tessa Richards
Tyler Williamson
Jacob Witkin
Michael Hunter Lilly
John Carroll
Elan Ross Gibson
Ashley Hale
Gillian Barber
Sage Testini
Chilton Crane
Rob Morton
Judy Norton-taylor
Frank C. Turner
Claudette Mink
John Bear Curtis
Brad Sihvon
Bryce Hodgson
Sheila Moore
Jianna Ballard
Mark Acheson
Bruce Mckinnon
Lois Dellar
Dale Dickey
Mike Hickman
Ewan Clark
James Waterston
Ryan Mcdonald
Ingrid Torrance
Jessica Halikowski
Andy Stahl
Benjamin Rogers
Lauren Lee Smith
Xantha Radley
Andrew Robb
Cole Wilde
Stewart Finlay-mclennan
Zook Matthews
Ralph Alderman
William Pavey
Jay Hilliker
Diane Ladd
Justin Chatwin
Olivia Kelly
Julie Patzwald
Crew
John Steven Agoglia
Jon Bak
David R Baron
Suzanne Bingham
Tom Blomquist
Tara Cowell-plain
Jeff Davis
Tony Fantozzi
Deboragh Gabler
Timothy Gamble
Lazlo George
Philip Gerson
Kate Healey
Tim Higgins
Brian Hughes
Brenda Ilic
Larry Iverson
Brenda Lilly
Catherine Marshall
Roger Mattiussi
Gina Mueller
David Mylrea
Ron Ramin
Phil Schmidt
John Schneider
Michael Shandley
Dana Shockley
Mellanie Siteman
Maureen Webb
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Aired in United States May 13, 2001
Aired in United States May 14, 2001
The first PAX TV "Christy" telefilm, "Christy: The Movie," was telecast on November 19, 2000.
The television series, "Christy," was telecast on CBS from April 1994 to August 1995 with Kellie Martin starring in the role of Christy Huddleston, a young teacher of poverty-stricken children as a mission school in the mountains of early 20th century eastern Tennessee.
Began shooting August 21, 2000.
Completed shooting November 3, 2000.
rtg MPAA G
TV rating: TV-PG
