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Released
1987 · FILM

A Hobo's Christmas

The best thing about Christmas is Family...

Directed by
Runtime
100 min
DramaTV Movie

Synopsis

A hobo, played by Barnard Hughes, decides it's time to go home. Drifting from place to place, Hughes finds himself in his hometown of Salt Lake City at Christmas time. There, he hopes to close old wounds and be reunited with his unforgiving son, played by Gerald McRaney, and get to know the grandchildren he has never met. McRaney, still resenting the fact that Hughes ran out on his family 25 years earlier, gives his father only one day with his grandkids; after that, he's expected to leave and never come back. All the while, Hughes' friends warn him that his son and the past are memories that are best left alone, and that he should leave, but he has to find out for himself.

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Principal cast & crew: 19

These are the principals we have on file — the full crew ran to the hundreds. Every film this size was made by far more hands than any credits list ever names.

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This is a minimum, not a total. We only count the credits we’ve captured so far, and coverage is uneven — a blockbuster might show a few hundred names while another of the same size shows a couple dozen. The real crews all ran into the thousands. The number here only grows as full credits are enriched — so we frame it as a floor, never a headcount.

Craft leads on file

Edited by Corky EhlersShot by Stephen W GrayScored by Mark Snow

Also known as

  • Weihnachten mit einem Trampde

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