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On temporary leave from his service in Korea for the holiday season, young sailor Pete is devastated by his girlfriend's unfaithfulness and evaluates his relationship with his distant father, a gruff Irish factory worker.
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To a young sailor named Pete - on leave for the holidays, temporarily liberated from the specter of war in Korea - Christmas cheer seems in short supply. Pete is back in his old Brooklyn neighborhood, experiencing firsthand that the girl he left behind evidently meant what she said in the Dear John letter she sent him. He's back in the dreary Seventh Avenue apartment that his mother can ill afford to decorate for Christmas. And he's back facing off with Billy, the gruff Irish factory worker who is his father yet seems forever a stranger - until, on Christmas Eve, Pete pays his first visit to Rattigan's, the local bar where his father hangs out, the place where Billy seems most fully alive. It is in this humble setting, in a casual exchange between father and son, that Pete receives the gift that will make a lifetime of difference.
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