Homecoming: A Christmas Story

     

Homecoming: A Christmas Story1971

Director: Fielder Cook
Stars: Patricia Neal, Richard Thomas, Edgar Bergen, Ellen Corby, Cleavon Little
Rating: PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Runtime: 100 minutes

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 int… more »


John-Boy:
Grandpa, do we got something to show we own Walton's Mountain?

Grandpa:
You can't own a mountain any more than you can own an ocean or a piece of the sky. You hold it in trust. You live on it, you take life from it, and once you're dead, you rest in it.

John-Boy:
I'd just as soon not think about that part.

Grandpa:
You're not ready for it yet.

John-Boy:
Are you?

Grandpa:
Never!

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