It takes something pretty special to get him in front of a camera these days, and A Feeling of Home was just that. “I'd been reading a lot of scripts and passing on things because this is a time in my life when I’m truly enjoying being a husband, father, grandfather,” he explained during an exclusive interview with MediaVillage. “When I got this script, the odds were that I would read it and say, ‘Thanks, but no thanks.’ But the truth is, the script is so skillfully elegant, it really is a lovely, smart piece of work. When I read it, I really wanted to be a part of it -- and I was.”
In the film, Benson stars as cattle rancher Wes Cooper, whose daughter Abby (Jonna Walsh) is the host of a popular web series titled New England, My Way. When Abby prepares to launch a line of home products, her plans to head to New England to shoot some authentic scenes are derailed when Wes injures himself in a fall. Arriving at her father’s ranch in Langston, Texas, Abby encounters Ryan (Nathan Dean Parsons), her ex-boyfriend, currently employed as her father’s ranch hand. (Walsh, left, and Parsons, center are pictured below with Benson.) As the couple gets reacquainted, it’s evident their mutual attraction is very much alive and well. However, when the powers that be at Abby’s show discover her roots are in Texas rather than New England, she’s forced to make a decision -- head east to maintain her burgeoning empire or stay in cattle country and follow her heart.