Characters & Themes
Christmas Eve (1986) Characters, Setting & Themes Explained
- Release, runtime and language
- 1986 · 93 mins · English
- Directed by
- Stuart Cooper
- Starring
- Trevor Howard, Arthur Hill, Kate Reid, Cec Linder, Loretta Young, Gary Farmer
A wealthy elderly woman, known for befriending the homeless and volunteering with children, discovers she has an incurable illness. Determined to bring her three adult grandchildren—spread across the United States—back together with their estranged father, she enlists a private detective to locate each of them, hoping to reunite the family on Christmas Eve.
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