The Gift (1979)

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A sailor on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father and dreamer mother in 1950s Brooklyn.
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Dec 15, 1979
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01h 40m
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A sailor on Christmas leave visits his boozing, one-legged father and dreamer mother in 1950s Brooklyn.

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