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The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story is a film of genre Drama directed by Delbert Mann released in USA on 20 december 1983 with Lee Remick
The Gift of Love: A Christmas Story (1983)
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Add to a movie listThe Gift of Love: A Christmas Story is a classic Christmas movie, originally broadcast on CBS as an annual tradition for more than five years, premiering December 20, 1983. It starred Lee Remick, Angela Lansbury & Polly Holliday. It was produced by Dick Atkins and Michael Lepiner; directed by Academy Award winner Delbert Mann; and written by Earl Hamner, Jr., creator of The Waltons and The Homecoming, based on the short story "The Silent Stars Go By" by Bess Streeter Aldrich. The movie was filmed on location in 1983 in Vermont, mainly in Burlington and the charming small town of Chelsea.
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With her world in turmoil, Janet (Lee Remick) feels she is losing so much that’s important… her beloved mother (Angela Lansbury), the family business, maybe even her husband. Janet dreams of simpler times, of Christmas in the idyllic Vermont of her younger days, and of taking her children back to the family home where her parents and spinster aunt (Polly Holliday) would be waiting for them. And they are, in all the warmth of the holiday. But only when even more seems lost, as one her children is in jeopardy, does Janet search for that ‘secret place’ where we all may find what really matters, at Christmas and always.Actors
Lee Remick
(Janet Broderick)
Angela Lansbury
(Amanda Fenwick)
Polly Holliday
(Aunt Minerva)
Michael Pearlman
(Michael)
Michael Higgins
(Hanibal)
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