As World War 2 rages
on in Europe the Bundy family are making plans for a Christmas reunion in the
small town of Rockport.
The matriarch Martha (Eva
Marie Saint) cashes in all of her ration-stamps to purchase the best Christmas
dinner she can with everyone expected round the table.
Rockport is a small
town where everyone knows everyone else and the tough times bring them even closer.
But the one person no one wants to see at their door is the Western Union man,
because most of the news he delivers are telegrams from the War Department,
reporting the death of a loved one and sadly he makes his rounds far too often.
This is a wonderful Christmas movies with happiness and sadness in equal measure
and some strong performances, Hal Holbrook as head of the family, Joseph,
Courteney Cox as expectant daughter in law Nora, and the strongest of all Nancy
Travis as young widow Leah.
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