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:
You know what's in that tablet, Mama? All my secret thoughts. What I feel and what I think about. What it's like late at night to hear a whipoorwill call and hear it's mate call back. The rumbling of the midnight train crossing the tressel at Rockfish, or just watching the water go by the creek and knowing some day it will reach the ocean, wondering if I'll ever seen an ocean and what a wonder that would be. You know, Mama, sometimes I hike on over to the highway and I sit and watch the buses go by and the people in them and I'm wondering what they're like and what they say to each other and where they're bound for. Things stay in my mind, I can't forget anything and it all get's bottled up in here and sometimes I feel like a crazy man. I can't rest or sleep or anything until I rush up here and write it down in that tablet. Sometimes I think I really am crazy.

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  • Tim Johnson
    Tim Johnson
    "You know what's in that tablet, Mama? All my secret thought. What I feel and what I think about. What it's like late at night to hear a whipoorwill call and hear it's mate call back. The rumbling of the midnight train crossing the tressle at Rockfish, or jus watching the water go by in the creek and knowing some day it will reach the ocean, and wondering if I'll ever see an ocean and what a wonder that would be. You know, mama, sometimes I hike on over to the highway and I sit and watch the buses go by and the people in tem and I'm wondering what they're like and where they're bound for. Things stay in my mind, I can't forget anything and it gets all bottled up in here ad sometimes I feel like a crazy man. I can't rest or sleep or anything until I rush off up here and write it down in that tablet. Sometimes, I think I really am crazy.
    the words that started it all for me as a writer.....forty three years ago this month....took forty of those years more or less before I finally listed to the LORD and did anything really substantial with or about a gift of words.....But now....I find I cannot stop...."I can't rest or sleep or anything until I rush off and writing something down on my lap top and flash stick". 
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