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6.7/10   152 votes
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Director:
Writers (WGA):
Julie Salamon (book) and
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Release Date:
22 December 1996 (USA) more
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Plot:
A story about a forming friendship between an elderly nun, Sister Anthony, and New York's Rockefeller Center's head gardener Richard Reilly... more | add synopsis
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Sentimental? Well, YEAH! more (18 total)

Cast

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Julie Harris ... Sister Anthony
Trini Alvarado ... Beth

Andrew McCarthy ... Richard Reilly
Suzi Hofrichter ... Anna
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Betty Aberlin ... Sister Sarah

Nili Bassman ... Anna (Age 18)
Imogene Bliss ... Sister Lucia
Therese Courtney ... Mother Superior (1939)
Lulee Fisher ... Sister Rose
Jessica Hecht ... Sister Mary
Shannon Holt ... Sister Lucia (1939 / 1959)
Lynne Innerst ... Sister Frances
Chad Luberger ... Roy
Kathleen McEntee ... Sister Margaret
Zachary Mott ... Anna's Father
Beverly Owings ... Matron of the Orphanage
Anne Pitoniak ... Mother Superior Frances
Colin Quinn ... Tom
Jaime Shapiro ... Doreen

Daniel Sweazen ... Helicopter Pilot
Katherine Sweeney ... Terry
Cornell J. Wallace ... Harvey / Workman
Dave Whalen ... Sven
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Runtime:
93 min
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4 out of 4 people found the following comment useful.
Sentimental? Well, YEAH!, 13 November 2005
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Author: scarlettudor from Nitro, West Virginia USA

Some movies just stick with you. You continue thinking of them, being reminded of them, for years to come.

'The Christmas Tree,' directed by Sally Field, starring Julie Harris, is one of those movies.

Why it has not been re-shown on TV since its 1996 debut, I do not understand. Why is it not available for sale or rent anywhere, I do not know.

Tree is about a young girl who is an orphan, living in a convent. Her special friend is a tree, to whom she takes all her joys and sorrows. During the course of the movie, her early history is revealed, as well as a glorious future for Tree.

Some might call it sentimental, but isn't that a lot of what Christmas is about? I haven't looked at a tree quite the same way since.

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