Synopsis
        In the south, there lies a small, special town by the name of 'Chester'. To be exact, it is not the town that is so unique, but the stories within it, and most certainly, the very special people who together make the town what it is. No, the town itself doesn't make the magic, but within its confines are the callused hands and prideful citizens, the kids playing Saturday soccer, and the ever-hopeful lottery winners. Last but not least, there are also a few unsuspecting souls partnering with fate.
         
MEGAN MARGULIS (Teri Hatcher) has ditched her New York City real estate job, and is headed south toward CHESTER in order to reunite with her long distance fiancee, CRAIG (Daniel Green). Megan, hoping to give the relationship one last deserved effort, plans to suprise Craig and save what distance has long been deteriorating. As she heads out of the city and toward the airport, Megan has no idea that her destinyy will be discovered where she least expects it.
         
RAY KLINE (Rob Treveiler), an entertainment lawyer, is returning home to Chester after a four-year hiatus in Hollywood. Reluctant to rejoin with the history and roots he resents, Ray must fly home to aid his dying mother. Laced with old wounds and broken family relationships, Chester is the last place Ray would imagine finding personal solace and a love by the name of Megan.
         
BETSY KLINE (Jacqueline Anderson) is Ray's sister, who holds down the fort, and nurses her ailing mother.
         
JAMES KLINE (David Andrews)  is Ray's estranged brother, the favored one, so to say, who is now divorced and pines for a woman who's name he doesn't know.
         
JESSIE MCGRUFF (Andrea Powell), is a local waitress and the woman who's name James doesn't know. Most would say she's practically a single mother. Married to KENNY MCGRUFF (Gil Johnson), a hapless local, Jessie spends her time working to support her ten-year old son, CHARLIE (Cody Newton), and trying to protect him from his father's constant failures. More than that, Jessie knows that her son has a special gift of clairvoyance, and to shield him from things he knows but shouldn't see, see wraps him in a shroud of love, made better by the presence of CHIPPY (Rhoda Griffis), Jessie's outspoken and eccentric best friend.
          Kenny is the hapless local who wins the lottery only to die the very same day when he walks drunkenly into the street and is killed by his best friend's truck. It is in fact this accident that brings these people together unexpectedly, bound by a terrible destinyy that in the end doesn't turn out to be so terrible. On a rainy, dark street in Chester, Megan just misses hitting the drunken Kenny, and strikes his friend's truck instead. Right behind Megan, is Ray, heading for home. At the moment of a disastrous pile up, Charlie dreams of his father's death, and calls for his mother. However, Jessie believes that this time, Kkenny's negligence has caused Charlie's dream, and not the clairvoyance. Little does Jessie know how dead-on Charlies is, and that her husband may have finally changed his ways. Kenny has won the lottery, and has left the majority of it to be picked up under her and Charlie's name ifg they can get to the lottery's headquarters in time.
          After the accident and when Megan discovers her fiancee in the arms of another woman, Ray and Megan become fast friends and more. Meanwhile, Charlie dreams of all the players, linking them together with another common denominator besides Kenny: the dying
MRS. KLINE (Collin Wilcox Paxton), Charlie's favorite school nurse, and down-the-street neighbor, better known as Ray's mother.
          In the end, this group is brought together by circumstance, needing each other, and almost subconciously waiting for one another...a group of perfect strangers finding good luck in the hands of fate during one of the most trying periods in all of their lives.
Production tidbits...
BUDGET: under US$2 million
Company: Velveteen Films
Casting: Fincannon & Associates, Joy Todd
Shooting Dates: April 2nd 2001 - May 4th 2001
Location: Filmed entirely in Wilmington, North Carolina.
Representation: Rudolph & Beer NYC
Miscellaneous Info...
* Auditions were held for everyone but Teri Hatcher, Collin Wilcox Paxton and David Andrews

* Director/Writer was forced to be creative on her feet when many scenes outdoors has to be rewritten indoors to accomodate the change in weather!

*In Wilmington, where The Chester Story was filmed, the tide comes in and out very fast twice a day. Several scenes were filmed on the docks and had to be scheduled carefully so that the background wasn't dry oyster beds, which aren't as visually pleasing as hide tide!