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The Christmas Tree

6.4Dec 22, 19961h 33mDramaFamilyTV Movie

Directed by Sally Field

Written by Jill Weber, Julie Salamon, Janet Brownell, Sally Field

A story about a forming friendship between an elderly nun, Sister Anthony, and New York's Rockefeller Center's head landscape architect Richard Reilly, who wants to fell a tree she's been growing for decades and move it to New York for Christmas display.

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Cast

Julie Harris

Julie Harris

Sister Anthony

Trini Alvarado

Trini Alvarado

Beth

Andrew McCarthy

Andrew McCarthy

Richard Reilly

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Suzi Hofrichter

Anna 1939

Betty Aberlin

Betty Aberlin

Sister Sarah

Nili Bassman

Nili Bassman

Anna 1950

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Imogene Bliss

Sister Lucia 1996

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Therese Courtney

Mother Superior 1939

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Lulee Fisher

Sister Rose

Jessica Hecht

Jessica Hecht

Sister Mary

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Shannon Holt

Sister Lucia 1939

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Lynne Innerst

Sister Francis 1939

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