Christmas on Division Street

A preppy (Fred Savage) from Philadelphia strikes up a friendship with a senior citizen (Hume Cronyn) from skid row. Scorpio: Badja Djola. Derek: Casey Ellison. Atwood: Kenneth Welsh. Benedetti: Jim Byrnes. Susan: Cloyce Morrow. Jill: Kahla Lichti. Munn: Alan Lysell. George Kaczender directed., A youth befriends a homeless man he meets at the public library in Philadelphia who teaches him about America’s past and the meaning of sharing., A homeless man who wanders the streets stealing, befriends a wealthy high school kid, forming an interesting bond which they both remember for the rest of their lives., A youth befriends a homeless man he meets at the public library in Philadelphia, who teaches him about America’s past and the meaning of sharing., Hume Cronyn steals what there is to steal of Christmas on Division Street. Cronyn plays a smooth-talking skid row derelict who befriends wealthy Philadelphia “mainline” kid Fred Savage. Both the old bum and the young preppie have lost faith in themselves and the world. Both are redeemed by the spirit of Christmas and by the bonds of friendship. Made for TV, Christmas on Division Street is saved from being a heaping bowl of Yuletide mush by the ever-iconoclastic Cronyn., A homeless man who wanders the streets stealing, befriends a wealthy high school kid forming an interesting bond which they both remember for the rest of their lives.