The Gift

Year: 1979

Runtime: 100 mins

Language: English

Director: Don Taylor

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Three Days of Passion and Conflict That Will Change His Life Forever A sailor on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father and dreamer mother in 1950s Brooklyn.

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