just think about this movie give me shiver and make me want to cry . in happiness and that be . i hate to sound so melodramatic and but that how this movie affect me a a 10 year old seeing it for the first time . if i can recall and this movie be a christmas season mini classic show every year on cbs . they use to show it every year for about 5 or 6 year or so and then it vanish . i be a young kid grow up in brooklyn and my life have some strong parallel to jt a i and too and have a hard and lonely existence and adopt stray dog and cat only to find them dead after be hit by car one after another . that do not stop me from befriend other stray though and a this movie teach me many valuable lesson about life . especially for animal . what i wouldn not give to revisit these character again .