![]() Now they circle each other in a touching, unspoken courtship — one complicated by the still-grieving Tom's memories of Woody (who visually intrudes into the present) and by his unresolved feelings toward Al Dean, who gave Tom and Woody the pot they smoked before the accident. Woody's best friend, bar-waitress and singer-songwriter Beth (Ryan Massey), remains his friend, though both believe Woody would have wanted them together. Into this slacker "Northern Exposure" comes Tom Sullivan (Buck Simmonds) on his sidecar-motorcycle the easygoing Tom, with his Jeff Bridges grin, decamped after girlfriend Woody (Jamey Jousan) died in a skiing accident. Al Dean's shack-mates include Australian bartender-philosopher Errol McNamara ("Bunzy" Bunsworth), who wins a piglet in a greased-pig contest they plan to fatten the newly christened Scrapple (played by three different oinkers) and roast her in the fall. ![]() He'd rather earn the dough selling a shipment of "Nepalese Temple Ball" marijuana than deal cocaine for odious proto-Yuppie realtor Kurt Hinney (L. But Al Dean (as everyone calls him), who's generally attired in a puffy ski vest and wide, Grand Funk Railroad hair, also has the modest ambitions and surrogate-family familiarity of most everyone else in this remote, ramshackle town of quasi-hippies. (a thinly disguised Telluride), and amiable house painter/small-time pot dealer Al Dean (co-writer/producer Geoffrey Hanson) has a dream: to scrape together $7,500 for a down payment on a house, so his brother (Dan Earnshaw), a Vietnam vet, can have a porch on which to roll his wheelchair and enjoy the snow-topped scenery. A genial shaggy-pig story set in a late-1970s ski town.
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