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What is Your Favorite Holiday Movie?
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--- Quote from: ednbarby on November 25, 2008, 11:00:36 am ---I have a special fondness for The Homecoming, which is the movie upon which "The Waltons" was based. The movie had different actors playing Olivia and John - Patricia Neal (LOVE her) and ... some guy. Everyone else was the same as in the TV show, I think.
I wonder if they'll show it this year, since it's about the Great Depression, and how this huge family is trying to scrape out an existence in the mountains of West Virginia, and how their Dad makes a long trip into the nearest big town to buy Christmas presents for the family and doesn't return. As the panic starts to set in, it's interesting to see how each of the family members copes with the thought that he may not come back.
On a lighter note, I also love Scrooged, A Christmas Story (you'll shoot your eye out, kid!), and Christmas Vacation.
And I cry every damn time the Grinch's heart grows three sizes that day.
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Christmas is over now but The Homecoming is a favorite of mine.
delalluvia:
Nobody watched Die Hard this year? ;D 8)
Jeff Wrangler:
I can't vouch for the accuracy of it, but I noticed this evening that the current issue of TV Guide lists a broadcast of Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol for this Friday evening. I haven't seen that in, oh, 50 years. ;D
That was actually my first introduction to the Dickens classic. :)
CellarDweller:
I love the music in that one....."All Alone In The World"...."Winter Was Warm".
morrobay:
A favorite is Truman Capote's "A Christmas Memory". He narrates it himself, it's a biographical story of a Christmas he spends with his cousin, played by Geraldine Page, in the '30s.
From wiki:
The largely autobiographical story, which takes place in the 1930s, describes a period in the lives of the seven-year-old narrator and an elderly woman who is his distant cousin and best friend. The evocative narrative focuses on country life, friendship, and the joy of giving during the Christmas season, and it also gently yet poignantly touches on loneliness and loss.
Now a holiday classic, "A Christmas Memory" has been broadcast, recorded, filmed, and staged multiple times, in award-winning productions.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=G0vjTfVyZco
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