{"product_id":"the-homecoming-a-christmas-story","title":"The Homecoming: A Christmas Story","description":"Amazon.com\n\nA 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\n\nProduct Description\n\nThis movie launched the long-lasting TV series \"The Waltons.\" Set on a Depression Christmas Eve in 1933, this heart-tugging story centers around the Waltons. Actors: Patricia Neal, Richard Thomas Year: 1971 Runtime: 98 minutes Original Language: English Subtitles Available: English\u003cbr\u003eASIN: B0000AQS5E\u003cbr\u003eVSKU: HBSV.B0000AQS5E.G\u003cbr\u003eCondition: Good\u003cbr\u003eAuthor\/Artist:Clarence M. Landry|Josephine Hutchinson|David Huddleston|Cleavon Little|Andrew Duggan|Kent Williams|Betty Carter|Mary McDonough|David W. Harper|Richard Thomas|Edgar Bergen|Ellen Corby|Sally Chamberlain|Woodrow Parfrey|Dorothy Stickney|Jon Walmsley|Eric Scott|Kami Cotler|Judy Norton-Taylor|William Windom|Patricia Neal|Fielder Cook\u003cbr\u003eBinding: Dvd\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eNote:\u003c\/b\u003e Any images shown are stock photographs and product may differ from what is shown.  \u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eCondition Notes\u003c\/b\u003e: Dvd comes in original case and case has original artwork. Disc may have some minor scratches but is in good condition.Case may have some general wear. Be sure check out thousands of our other dvds on this platform. If dvd came with digital code, code may be used.  \u003cbr\u003e","brand":"The Happy Book Stack ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":67663150121261,"sku":"HBSV.B0000AQS5E.G","price":3.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0855\/6799\/6205\/files\/B0000AQS5E-0.jpg?v=1792356695","url":"https:\/\/www.thehappybookstack.com\/products\/the-homecoming-a-christmas-story","provider":"The Happy Book Stack ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}