The Gift is a 1979 made-for-television film directed by Don Taylor and starring Glenn Ford, Gary Frank and Julie Harris.
Pete Devlin (Gary Frank), a 17-year-old sailor, returns home to Brooklyn on leave from the Navy for Christmas in the 1950s.
Pete's father (Glenn Ford) is an emotionally-distant and heavy-drinking factory worker who lost a leg in an accident.
As a Christmas gift, the local VFW post makes Billy an honorary member.
The Commander (M. Emmet Walsh) presents a slide show of Billy when he was a young soccer star before the war.
Pete visits Patsy (Anthony Ponzini) asking to buy a gun to kill the guy who "moved in on" Kathleen.
Younger brother Teddy (Kevin Bacon) buys a gun and plans to rob a gas station.
He tells about his time in the hospital with gangrene and waking up in the operating room as the doctors were cutting off his leg.
And I remember that Christmas I hadn't received much in any ordinary way, but my father loved me back, and there was no other gift I wanted."