The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.
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7.3/10
19 votes
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73/100 blend
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Warm reception overall — weighted ~73/100 across 1 rating source. The listed meters mostly agree.
Cast
Patricia Neal
Olivia Walton
Richard Thomas
John-Boy Walton
Edgar Bergen
Ebenezer Walton
Ellen Corby
Esther Walton
Dorothy Stickney
Emily Baldwin
Josephine Hutchinson
Mamie Baldwin
William Windom
Charlie Snead
Cleavon Little
Hawthorne Dooley
Andrew Duggan
John Walton
David Huddleston
Sheriff Ep Bridges
Woodrow Parfrey
Ike Godsey
Sally Chamberlin
City Lady
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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971)
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