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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story |  | Director: Fielder Cook
Actors: Patricia Neal, Richard Thomas, Edgar Bergen, Ellen Corby, Cleavon Little
Studio: Paramount
Category: DVD
List Price: $14.98
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Rating:  143 reviews
Sales Rank: 6508
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
Languages: English (Unknown), English (Subtitled), English (Original Language)
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Region: 1
Discs: 1
Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 Minutes
Shipping Weight (lbs): 0.3
Dimensions (in): 7.5 x 5.3 x 0.6
MPN: PARD843304D
ISBN: 079219540X
UPC: 097368433045
EAN: 9780792195405
ASIN: B0000AQS5E
Theatrical Release Date: December 19, 1971
Release Date: September 23, 2003
Availability: Usually ships in 1-2 business days
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Product Description
The Waltons' Love and Courage Face a Difficult Test. Patricia Neal, Richard Thomas, Edgar Bergen and Cleavon Little star in this award-winning drama that inspired the long-running, vastly popular TV series, "Waltons." Set on a Depression Christmas Eve in 1933, this heart-tugging story centers around the Waltons. They're a rural American family preparing to celebrate Christmas together. Though times are tough, love and sharing are abundant in this family. An inspiring tale of love, hope and spirit, this deeply moving story goes far beyond the boundaries of time and place to reach out and touch everyone, everywhere.
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A true television classic, The Homecoming was the second movie (after 1963's Spencer's Mountain) based on Earl Hamner's autobiographical writings about love, pride, faith, and survival in rural America during the Great Depression. The Homecoming introduced the Walton family, a 1930s mountain clan living a hardscrabble existence that forces patriarch John Walton (Andrew Duggan) to seek work, far from home, in the city. When John fails to return home, as promised, on Christmas Eve, his iron-willed wife Olivia (Patricia Neal) keeps a lid on their children's worry. Oldest son John-Boy (Richard Thomas), who privately dreams of becoming a writer but worries about disappointing his parents, is dispatched to find his dad. Graceful yet harder-edged than the subsequent TV series The Waltons (which recast several characters and ran for nine years), The Homecoming reveals, albeit understatedly, much about the pain of poverty even as the family draws strength and closeness through endurance. --Tom Keogh
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 A tradition in our home. July 19, 2010
Trader-Scott (Etters Pennsylvania)
I start off the season by watching this classic just after Thanksgiving.I will not go to bed christmas eve without having some cookies and of course the Nog,as I watch this movie.I love this movie.This is christmas to me.Not some goofy kid wishing for a red Rider BB gun.
Terrific launching for an American classic. March 3, 2010
A. Lee (Ash Grove, MO United States)
I saw the T.V. show The Waltons before I saw this movie. A few different actors took some getting used to but overall a great bunch of preformances.
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story March 3, 2010
Gene Minix
A wonderful heart warming story of a family living in the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia in 1933 during
the depression . A story of togetherness and love. John has gone away to work and
is late getting home for Christmas. Olivia sends John-Boy out to look for him. John
finally arrives and has spent almost all his check to get Christmas presents for the
family. "What are we goen to live on this comen week?", Olivia asks. "Love, woman. love".
And he promises her he will not leave again. That they will make it on Walton's Mountain.
A grand story based on The Homecoming by Earl Hamner, Jr. It brought us
The Waltons TV series. Truly this is a classic you'll want to see and own.
Dvd as described February 23, 2010
Greg Combs (Alberta, Canada)
The pilot movie from where The Waltons was created from. Delivered early and in perfect (new) condition. All good. Very easy transaction.
Great Americana February 17, 2010
Rowe W. Maxwell
This was great when I seen it as a child and is even better as an adult!
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