I'll Be Home for Christmas

1988

Drama

4
Rotten Tomatoes Audience - Upright 80%
IMDb Rating 6.5/10 10 350 350

christmas

Director

Marvin J. Chomsky Photo
Marvin J. Chomsky

Top cast

Courteney Cox Photo
Courteney Cox as Nora Bundy
Charles Tyner Photo
Charles Tyner as Isaiah Cawley
Eva Marie Saint Photo
Eva Marie Saint as Martha Bundy
Harvey Vernon Photo
Harvey Vernon as Pastor Marcus
480p.DVD
842.39 MB
718*480
English 2.0
NR
23.976 fps
1 hr 35 min
Seeds 55

Movie Reviews

Reviewed by 9 / 10

A simple Christmas reunion is good.

A white Christmas approaches. WWII rages on in Europe. A smiling mother cashes in all of her ration-stamps to purchase the best Christmas dinner she can. Happiness is where you find it.This is a small town. Everyone knows everyone. Tough times bring them even closer.The one person no one wants to see at his door is the local Western Union man, because most of the news he delivers are telegrams from the War Department: We regret to inform you that your son was killed in the war. Unfortunately, he makes his rounds too often.One family is safe from telegrams. A very pregnant wife awaits the Christmas Day arrival of her long-away love, at last his hitch with the army is over. Her sister-in-law gets off from her welding job on Christmas Eve, and heads home by bus to reunite with her brother, picking up a soldier with no family of his own, on the way home, and inviting him to have a home-cooked Christmas dinner.This is one of my favorite Christmas movies. Simple things are the best. Watch this one, and have a Christmas dinner on me. Bon appetit.
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Some Capra, some Currier & Ives and some Waltons

There is another film out by the same name which I caught by accident. What that film did was to expose the superiority of this one. This cast was comprised of veteran pros and lesser known but up and coming at the time (now most have achieved a measure of fame probably never expected by them!). As ensembles go it was really delightful. As messages go it was both touching and beautifully presented.Very simple in the manner of less splashy Christmas tales. The storyline makes sense and relies on no fancy gimmicks or icky plot turns. Heartwarming and simple and a lovely cast. It's a keeper.
Reviewed by 7 / 10

War, love, and Santa

Smalltown U.S.A. celebrates Christmas with the hope that the boys will return home from the war. One family awaits the return of their eldest son to his pregnant wife while watching fearfully as a younger son prepares to leave for the front. Bittersweet, nostalgic look at a simpler, yet tragic, holiday season.
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