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List Price: $7.98 | | Label: Allumination
Salesrank: 43351
Released: September 15, 2002 |
| Our Price: $67.89 |
| Used Price: $38.95 |
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MPAA Rating: Unrated
Media: DVD |
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Editorial Review:
Robert Hays, a surgeon who recently lost his wife, returns to his hometown with daughter Ashley Gorrell to run the local hospital. Jack Palance, Hays' father, wants him to meet somebody, so he tries to reunite him with veterinarian and ex-girlfriend Ann Jillian, but Hays is having a tough time readjusting to the easygoing lifestyle of a small town and to life without his wife--especially around Christmas time. 94 min. Standard; Soundtrack: English, Dolby Digital Stereo.
I'll Be Home for Christmas Reviews:
A Hometown Christmas 
2009-10-28 - I would give this 4 1/2 stars if I could. It isn't a deep or extremely dynamic movie, but it is good and I thought it was fairly well done. You can nitpick over little things, but overall it was worth watching and I enjoy being able to see it whenever I choose. The acting of the lead characters is excellent, including the young girl.
St. Nicholas, Iowa is a small town in need of a doctor or the hospital will have to be shut down. Beautiful Ann Jillian plays the mayor and town vet who is also trying to stitch up an occasional human patient. Robert Hayes plays the town's favorite son who went away and became a doctor. Everyone thought he would return, but instead he married and settled into a job in a large hospital in the city. His wife died a few years ago and now he and his daughter are going home for Christmas for the first time, while he tries to overcome the demons that are shaking his confidence in his own ability as a doctor. Jack Palance is amazing as his father who does what he can to encourage him to reunite with his old high school flame (Ann Jillian). Rather than explain to anyone that he is struggling, he makes up a story about getting a promotion and having to hurry back to work and he runs back to the city, but not to a promotion. Unable to overcome his insecurities in the operating room, he turns in his scalpel for a desk job in administration. Things come to a head when his dad, who came to the city with them for Christmas, needs emergency surgery and his daughter pleads with him to help grampa.
Will the eccentric townspeople of St. Nicholas have to close their hospital? Who will have the honor of being the "electrician" who lights the town's Christmas tree on Christmas Eve? And why is Janet, the pig, off her feed? Just a good, old-fashioned small-town Christmas the whole family can enjoy.
Love this movie! 
2009-10-08 - This is a great Christmas movie and also a wonderful love story. Ann Jillian is one of the best actresses in the business and shines in the story line. We all would love a chance to go back and get our first love.
Wonderful Christmas movie
2008-08-17 - This is one of the many really wonderfully "feel goo" Christmas movies. If you don't own it, you need to.
Warm & Pleasant Christmas Story
2008-01-02 - This is an enjoyable, warm and pleasant family film for anytime to view. The roles were done well. Ann jillian always gives a good performance & does in this role as a hometown veternarian who loves the community in which she lives. She is loved & respected by many. Along comes a widowed father of a young girl back to the neighborhood & his father's (Jack Palance)home as he has encountered some emotional obstacle to his professional ability in medicine. Ann Jillian helps them all to meet the problems ahead and thicken the plot so that the developing story brings high & low moments to a good resolution. How she does it is a good story. I had seen it on TV several times & can look at it again every so often.
I'll Be Home For Christmas 
2008-01-01 - A surgeon (Robert Hays) who has lost confidence in his ability and his daughter (Ashley Gorrell,) who has lost the feeling of joy in her life, go back to his home in St. Nicholas, Iowa, for the Christmas holidays and come face to face with their past and fears.
Jack Palance is wonderful as their father/grandfather. Ann Jillian as the mayor/former love interest of the surgeon gives a light to the film which is enchanting. A very pleasant holiday movie.
