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I'll Be Home For Christmas

1997 · 94 min

A gentle, snowy comfort watch about second chances and small-town warmth, with mild laughs and a soft heart.

Directed by
Jerry London
Genres
Tv movie, Comedy, Drama
Starring
Ann Jillian, Robert Hays, Jack Palance
Overview
Christmas romance about long-separated high school sweethearts who find each other again after 20 years. She's never married and is a smalltown mayor; he's a widowed doctor and single dad who's come back to visit his father for the holidays and is pressured to stay because there's need for a local doc.

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Directed by
Jerry London
Genres
Tv movie, Comedy, Drama
Starring
Ann Jillian, Robert Hays, Jack Palance
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How it feels

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Tone
  • warmstrength 2 of 3
  • romanticstrength 2 of 3
  • melancholicstrength 1 of 3
  • earneststrength 1 of 3
Pacing
measured, 2 of 4, from slow-burn to relentless
Attention
easy-watch, 2 of 4, from background-friendly to demanding
Themes
  • love
  • family
  • parenthood
  • healing
  • identity
Places
  • small town
  • home
Era
contemporary
Audience
family
Form
None
Content intensity
  • Gore none
  • Language none
  • Violence none
  • Sex none
All scales, 0 to 10
Scales, 0 to 10
ScaleValue0 to 10
Action1
Horror0
Humour4
Realism7
Romance6
Tension2
Darkness2
Complexity3
Emotional weight5

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Details

Genres
tv movie, comedy, drama, family, romance
Directed by
Jerry London
Written by
Darrah Cloud
Starring
Ann Jillian, Robert Hays, Jack Palance, Ashley Gorrell, Linda Sorensen, Eric Peterson, Bernard Behrens, Tom Harvey
Cinematography
Dennis C. Lewiston
Runtime
94 min
Country
United States of America
Languages
English

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