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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

Aspect Ratio: 1.33:1
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Binding: DVD
Brand: NEAL,PATRICIA
EAN: 9780792195405
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD-Video, Full Screen, Subtitled, NTSC
ISBN: 079219540X
Label: Paramount
Manufacturer: Paramount
Number Of Items: 1
Publisher: Paramount
Region Code: 1
Release Date: September 23, 2003
Running Time: 98 minutes
Sales Rank: 2590
Studio: Paramount
Theatrical Release Date: December 19, 1971

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Editorial Review:

Product Description:
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Genre: Feature Film Family
Rating: PG
Release Date: 23-SEP-2003
Media Type: DVD

Amazon.com:
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




Rating: - The movie that started it all...
The holiday season during the start of the Great Depression is looking rather bleak for the Walton ... Read More

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Rating: - A Classic Christmas Movie!
This was a perfect edition to my Christmas movie collection. Great for children also. It brings you ... Read More

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Rating: - it brought back memories
When I was a joungster I always injoyed watching the waltons. The homecoming i can't remember seeing ... Read More

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Rating: - memories
This brings back so many found memories of watching the wonderful shows of the Waltons. But this first ... Read More

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Rating: - Why Is It Not Shown On TV Anymore???
I'm going to order the Homecoming when we get back from vacation. I've looked for it every Christmas for ... Read More

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