The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

Author: Clarence M. Landry

Edition: DVD Video

Features:

• Factory sealed DVD

Binding: DVD

Format: Multiple Formats

Release Date: 23-09-2003

model number: D843304D

Part Number: D843304D

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

Product Description

This movie launched the long-lasting TV series "The Waltons." Set on a Depression Christmas Eve in 1933, this heart-tugging story centers around the Waltons. Actors: Patricia Neal, Richard Thomas Year: 1971 Runtime: 98 minutes Original Language: English Subtitles Available: English

EAN: 0097368433045

Package Dimensions: 7.5 x 5.4 x 0.6 inches

Languages: English