Summaries

A well-to-do elderly woman who befriends the homeless and volunteers her time with children learns that she has an incurable illness. She desperately wants to reunited her three grown grandchildren, now scattered across the U.S. living their own lives, with their estranged father, her son. She hires a private detective to search for them to try to get everyone together on Christmas Eve.—<[email protected]>

A wealthy elderly woman who uses her wealth to help the less fortunate decides not to give her son controlling interest in the business, which makes him decide to have her declared incompetent. Then she learns that she is dying, so she wishes to see her grandchildren before she dies, so he hires a private investigator to locate them so they can gather with her on Christmas Eve. At the end, a white dove appears outside on a snowy roof seen through a window.[email protected]

Details

Keywords
  • christmas
  • christmas movie
  • christmas in title
  • wealth
  • incurable disease
Genres
  • Drama
Release date Dec 21, 1986
Countries of origin United States
Language English
Filming locations Toronto, Ontario, Canada
Production companies Michael Filerman Productions Republic Television

Box office

Tech specs

Runtime 1h 33m
Color Color
Sound mix Mono
Aspect ratio 1.33 : 1

Synopsis

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