An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving
In 1860’s America, three generations of women come to terms with their relationships, with the differences that separate them, and with the power of forgiveness that could provide a long-awaited reconciliation.
Format
TV Movie
Genre
Drama, Holiday
Original Air Date
2008
Studio
Hallmark
Starring
- Helene Joy
- Jacqueline Bisset
- Paula Boudreau
- Ted Atherton
- Kristopher Turner
- Tatiana Maslany
- Michael Barbuto
Ever since the death of her poor but decent husband, the earnest and hard-working Mary Bassett (Helene Joy, M.V.P.) has struggled to provide for her daughters, Tilly and Prudence, and her son, Solomon, at a modest New Hampshire farm. With Thanksgiving approaching, Mary’s debt to her landlord Mrs. Hopkins (Paula Boudreau, A Raisin in the Sun) for back rent doesn’t bode well for the kind of holiday feast her children deserve. Then Tilly, an intellectual with dreams of becoming a writer, concocts a plan. She pens a letter, pleading for assistance from a brittle and wealthy society woman named Isabella Caldwell (Emmy and Golden Globe nominee Jacqueline Bisset, Nip/Tuck), her own estranged grandmother who severed all family ties after accusing her daughter of marrying a man beneath her.
