Winter Passing

February. 07,2006      R
Rating:
6.2
Trailer Synopsis Cast

Actress Reese Holden has been offered a small fortune by a book editor if she can secure for publication the love letters that her father, a reclusive novelist, wrote to her mother, who has since passed away. Returning to Michigan, Reese finds that an ex-grad student and a would-be musician have moved in with her father, who cares more about his new friends than he does about his own health and well-being.

Zooey Deschanel as  Reese Holden
Will Ferrell as  Corbit
Ed Harris as  Don Holden
Amy Madigan as  Lori Lansky
Amelia Warner as  Shelly
John Bedford Lloyd as  Leontes
Deirdre O'Connell as  Deirdre
Dallas Roberts as  Ray
Ivan Martin as  Bartender
Mary Jo Deschanel as  Mary

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