I saw this After School Special when it first aired (I was seven), and it stuck with me. I don't remember all the details, but whenever I think of it, it's poignancy.
I don't remember many of the details, but it was a lovely story of a man who moves to a big, imposing house and becomes friends with the children in the neighborhood. They paint his house, with is like a tiny Tara, all different colors. I can still picture it.
The poignancy emerges at the end, when the man goes away (I don't recall if he dies or moves), and a couple of days later, the children watch a work crew repaint the house white (and dull).
Naturally, it is about loss but also about children learning that an adult can be a real friend, that some adults can be child-like-and that these adults are not always accepted by other adults who can not reach their child selves.
I don't remember many of the details, but it was a lovely story of a man who moves to a big, imposing house and becomes friends with the children in the neighborhood. They paint his house, with is like a tiny Tara, all different colors. I can still picture it.
The poignancy emerges at the end, when the man goes away (I don't recall if he dies or moves), and a couple of days later, the children watch a work crew repaint the house white (and dull).
Naturally, it is about loss but also about children learning that an adult can be a real friend, that some adults can be child-like-and that these adults are not always accepted by other adults who can not reach their child selves.
