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Home by Christmas

Film (Trailer and Excerpts) – 2010

PG
Parental Guidance

Ed Preston (Martin Henderson) on the train, in movie Home by Christmas (2010).

Kindly supplied by Gaylene Preston Productions

Tony Barry (Ed Preston) in movie Home by Christmas (2010).

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Chelsie Preston Crayford as her own real life grandmother Tui Preston, in 2010 movie Home by Christmas.

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Chelsie Preston Crayford playing her own grandmother Tui Preston, in 2010 movie Home by Christmas.

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William Ackroyd as Edward Junior, brother of Gaylene Preston, in Preston's 2010 film Home by Christmas.

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Ed Preston (Martin Henderson) and his partner Tui (Chelsie Preston Crayford) on the train home, in Home by Christmas.

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Ed (Martin Henderson) and Tui (Chelsie Preston Crayford) say farewell, before he leaves for World War ll: a scene from Home by Christmas.

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Tony Barry (Ed Preston) in Gaylene Preston's 2010 movie Home by Christmas.

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Hoppy (Byron Coll, left) and Ed Preston (Martin Henderson) at Maadi Camp outside Cairo, in 2010 movie Home by Christmas.

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Ed Preston (Tony Barry) recalls how he signed up to be a soldier, in Home by Christmas.

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Actor Tony Barry as Ed Preston, in Gaylene Preston's 2010 film Home by Christmas.

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Ed Preston (Tony Barry) talks about the war in Gaylene Preston's 2010 movie Home by Christmas.

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Ed (Martin Henderson) returns from the war in Home by Christmas.  

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