A Hobo's Christmas
6.5
“The best thing about Christmas is Family...”
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. Here 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 should leave, but he has to find out for himself.
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Gerald McRaney
Charlie Grovner
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Will Mackenzie Director · Jeb Rosebrook Writer Joe Byrne Writer
United States release December 6, 1987 · Produced in United States · Languages English, German
Production
Joe Byrne/Falrose Productions
Production
Phoenix Entertainment Group
Production
United States
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Languages
Original language
English
Spoken on screen
English · German
Release dates
United Kingdom · October 20, 1987
Theatrical
United States · December 6, 1987
TV · CBS
Canada
December 6, 1987 · TV
France
December 1, 1990 · Theatrical · December 1990
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