When a broken hearted boy loses the treasured wooden nativity set that links him to his dead father, his worried mother persuades a lonely ill-tempered woodcarver to create a replacement, and to allow her son to watch him work on it.
Tom Berenger
as Jonathan Toomey
Joely Richardson
as Susan McDowell
Luke Ward-Wilkinson
as Thomas McDowell
Saoirse Ronan
as Celia Hardwick
Aran Bell
as Richard Tyler
Sarah Wildor
as Jonathan's Wife
Thomas Briggs
as Jonathan's Baby
Clare Burt
as Claire Hardwick
Benji Compston
as Charles White
Robert Jezek
as Jim Hardwick
Ronald Pickup
as William McDowell
Lia Williams
as Joan Tyler
