The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
by Fielder Cook

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Actor: Cleavon Little, Edgar Bergen, Ellen Corby, Patricia Neal, Richard Thomas
Director: Fielder Cook
Brand: PARAMOUNT HOME VIDEO
Cinematographer: Earl Rath
Editor: Gene Fowler Jr.
Editor: Marjorie Fowler
Producer: Lee Rich
Producer: Robert L. Jacks
Writer: Earl Hamner Jr.
DVD: Region Code 1
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Subtitled)
Format: Closed-captioned, Color, DVD, Full Screen, NTSC, Subtitled
Picture Format: 1.33:1
Running Time: 100 minutes
DVD Release Date: 2003-09-23
Audience Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Studio: Paramount

DVD Reviews of The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

DVD Review: Should be required Christmas viewing!...
Summary: 5 Stars

I love watching "The Homecoming" and watch it faithfully each Christmas on dvd. I think that the storyline set against the backdrop of the Great Depression, has much to offer each of us in this day and age... for as much as things appear to change, things really stay the same: worry over loved ones missing; lack of money; squabbles between siblings; self-reliance; but MOST importantly the message that LOVE and hard work combined will get us through anything. I watched a grown up, but still charming, Richard Thomas in the move "Taking Woodstock" last weekend, so it was fun to see him so young here. Patricia Neal makes for a strong-willed, yet emotional mother, and provides a nice counterweight to Thomas' sensitivity. It really is a delightful movie which one should share with one's family.

DVD Review: In Praise Of Patricia Neal
Summary: 5 Stars

Several reviewers here are big fans of The Walton's TV series, and have knocked Patricia Neal in the role that Michael Learned made famous, Olivia Walton. They say she's too harsh in the role.

If you can separate the film from the series (which came later) you can see what an amazing performance she gave. In Patricia Neal's hands Olivia is a different character -- a strong, care-worn woman, battered by the times and poverty, but tough enough to endure all that life given her. She is the heart and soul of this film, and captures the era and the earthiness of this character far more realistically than in the later series.

Don't get me wrong -- Michael Learned was lovely and warm in her role and I love the show, but this wonderful little film is something different. It's rougher, grittier and much more true-to-life than what was to follow. This is a real family that has seen hard times and made it through on the strength of love.

And Patricia Neal is the glue that holds it all together.

DVD Review: A Forgotten Classic!
Summary: 5 Stars

This is the original TV movie with Patricia Neal on which the later series The Waltons was based. This is easily one of the best Christmas movies ever made, TV or not. I would compare this to It's a Wonderful Life as far as how moving and well-made it is. Emmy-winnder Richard Thomas and Emmy and Oscar-winner Patricia Neal are both devastating in their roles, but everyone-- Cleavon Little, Willian Demerest, David Huddleston-- everyone is heartbreakingly good.

DVD Review: Waltons Christmas
Summary: 5 Stars

I remember watching this when I was a little girl,I have been looking for it for years and I'm so glad that my Son told me to look for it on Amazon.com, I'm sharing it with my family, because that is what the movie is about family.
A Big family full of love.

DVD Review: My most favorite Christmas movie of all time
Summary: 5 Stars

I first saw this movie when it premiered on CBS in 1971. I was 7 years old then and it instantly became and has remained my favorite Christmas movie. I wanted to be a Walton so badly! Our family never missed it when they replayed it each year. It was something we looked forward to all year long (because this was of course way back in the day before videos and dvd's). It's been a Christmas Eve tradition in our home since it first came out on vhs. I love this movie because it reminds me of a simpler time in this country when family values weren't just something politicians lauded in order to get votes but rather a deep and meaningful part of our culture. This was who we were when times were hard but people were still good. It's a time that sadly we will never see again in this country... except the Depression part perhaps. It's a wonderful visit to a simpler time and the story will touch your heart.

Description of The Homecoming: A Christmas Story

OLIVIA, JOHN-BOY AND THEIR VIRGINIA FAMILY SPEND CHRISTMAS EVE1933. PILOT FOR "THE WALTONS" TV SERIES.

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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