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The Gift

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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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Status: Released

Released Date: 1979-12-15

Runtime: 100 mins

Director: Don Taylor

Writer: Robert Malloy

Spoken language: English

Genres: Drama, TV Movie

Original title: The Gift

Production Companies: Paramount Television, The Jozak Company, Cypress Point Productions

Production Countries: United States of America

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