Synopsis
Nick, a motel owner who has lost faith in more than just the humanity of mankind, is visited by a kindly stranger on Christmas Eve. The motel's guests are only concerned for themselves until a poor man and his wife drive up to the motel, unable to go any further. Out of rooms, Nick's wife prepares a place for them in a shed under a neon star Nick had just finished hanging. Their plight brings out the generosity in everyone, including Nick, who remembers another family almost two thousand years earlier that also found a makeshift room at an inn under another kind of star.
Key facts
Original language
English
Awards
Academy Award for Best Short Subject, Two-reel
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Festival History
- Academy Awards 1946 academy_award
Source: Cinémathèque québécoise, linked catalogue data (CC BY 4.0)
