t-kirby-1
Joined Sep 2004
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So we've got some good and great actors onboard who do their best with the awful script they've been handed. The story is all over the place, and add to that some truly awful direction. I just wish the story would have unfolded in a more cohesive way, because, after all, the twist is more or less a shocker.
The Walton's Homecoming Christmas TV film, which aired 50 years ago this month, is my all-time favorite Holiday movie. Patricia Neal plays Olivia, all original SEVEN children are there, and Ellen Corby originates her role as Grandma Walton. It is both heartwarming and heartbreaking all at once thanks to the brilliance of Neal and Richard Thomas as Johnboy. We are taken back to an era when life was tough, but you got through it. This new film doesn't hold a candle to the original. Please just watch the 1971 version and skip this one all together.
