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The Gift (1979) - Movie Browser

Overview

A sailor on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father and dreamer mother in 1950s Brooklyn.

Content warning

family reunion generation gap

Director

Don Taylor

ReleasedDec 15, 1979

Runtime1h 40m

StatusReleased

Cypress Point Productions

Top Cast

Glenn Ford

Billy Devlin

Julie Harris

Anne Devlin

Gary Frank

Pete Devlin

Allison Argo

Kathleen

Maggie Cooper

Betty

Tom Clancy

Richie Brennan

Kevin Bacon

Teddy

M. Emmet Walsh

Legion Commander

Phillip Pine

Boop

Jane Hoffman

Mrs. Crowley

Lewis Charles

Izzy

K.C. Martel

John

Antony Ponzini

Patsy

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