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I'll Be Home for Christmas is a american film of genre Drama directed by Marvin J. Chomsky released in USA on 12 december 1988 with Hal Holbrook
I'll Be Home for Christmas (1988)
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Add to a movie listI'll Be Home for Christmas is a 1988 Christmas-themed television film directed and produced by Marvin J. Chomsky. The film, which stars Hal Holbrook and Eva Marie Saint, deals with the lives and relationships of a Massachusetts family during the final Christmas of World War II.
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Set in 1944 Rockport, Massachusetts during the final moments of World War II, I'll Be Home for Christmas focuses on the Bundy family. Head of the family Joseph (Hal Holbrook) and his wife Martha (Eva Marie Saint) await the return of their grown children, who include Mike (Whip Hubley), who has completed all of his combat missions in England and is due to come home for good. His pregnant wife Nora (Courteney Cox) has been living with the Bundys since his departure, and is now awaiting her husband's return while preparing to give birth to their first child, hoping it won't be born until Mike arrives. She eventually gives birth to a baby boy.Actors
Hal Holbrook
(Joseph Bundy)
Eva Marie Saint
(Martha Bundy)
Nancy Travis
(Leah Bundy)
Peter Gallagher
(Aaron Copler)
David Moscow
(Davey Bundy)
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