Home for Christmas backdrop
Home for Christmas poster
Trailer
Home for Christmas
6.0
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0h 46m
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1978
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Released
Overview
"Here is the quintessential Hancox 'personal documentary,' a film in which both the production and role of traditional documentary and autobiographical filmmaking are thrown into question. Using his camera to record a visit out east by train to spend Christmas with the family, Hancox .... used his familiarization with the annual ritual as a form of a script... Although we see the journey through the subjective judgment of Hancox’s eyes, it is his intent to transfer the material from original event to camera, to editing, and finally to the audience, so that the personal content of the film... becomes universal.” Michael Wade, Ontario Film Studies, Cinema Parallel “It is the honesty of portrayal which is staggering, for instead of an idyllic image which many filmmakers present of themselves, Hancox presents (and thus, sees) himself without cinematic make-up... with ‘wild sync’ sound (reminiscent of an early film), and with the use of only available natural light.” Richard Stanford

Cast
Amanda Hancox poster
Amanda Hancox
sister, from Toronto
Scot Denton poster
Scot Denton
Amanda's husband
Rick Hancox poster
Rick Hancox
filmmaker
Mary Hancox poster
Mary Hancox
Mom, P.E.I.
Bill Hancox poster
Bill Hancox
Dad, P.E.I.

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