Product: Francis Ford Coppola Presents William S. Burroughs' The Junky's Christmas
Rating: 4.0
christmas magic...of a sort
this is my all time favorite holiday story.it is on the list with 'it's a wonderful life', 'emmett otter's jugband christmas', and 'mr. mcgoo's a christmas carol'.ok, ok, so i am a sap. i love that touchy feely stuff.i like the raw edge to this one that is entirely missing from the others.and that curmudgeonly voice, like a chainsaw being started, of burroughs is absolutely perfect...even though he reads without modulation or inflection, which normally is death to a read-aloud story...somehow perfectly reflects the emotional landscape of the junky life.the ending makes me cry every time. (yeah? so what doesn't!!)so glad this is now available on dvd.