It's Christmas Eve, early 1930s on Walton's Mountain. As the family prepares for the holiday, they anxiously await Pa's return home from his job in the city some 50 miles away. He is late, and Ma and the grandparents hear on the radio a report of a bus accident that worries them. Oldest son John-Boy must step up to help grandfather cut down a Christmas tree, and upon learning the concern about Daddy sets out to find him.
The Homecoming: A Christmas Story has generally received very positive reviews.
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The Homecoming: A Christmas Story was released in 1971 and has generally received very positive reviews.
Online reviewers have written 8 reviews, giving The Homecoming: A Christmas Story (1971) an average rating of 80%.
Overall, cinema-goers much prefer the movie, giving it an average score of 88%, compared to film critics, who gave it a considerably lower average score of 0%. Amateur reviewers enjoyed The Homecoming: A Christmas Story a lot more than professional critics.
With a score of 80%, The Homecoming: A Christmas Story is above the average Cinafilm score for movies made in 1971, which stands at 60%.
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