Ask FlickChick Whats that sci-fi movie multigenerational family drama time-tripping love story and moreQuestion I saw several scenes from some film a several decades in the life of a family tale as a kid in the 80s and theyve been coming back to me for a decade but my attempts to find the movie have been futile I dont think I saw the ending which may explain why its stayed with me so many years Im afraid these snippets are all I can rememberThe family has moved to a large city and invested in a store selling television sets then a new technology but their area has no broadcasts No one is buying the sets which just show a test pattern but then the TVs spring to life showing I believe Howdy Doody Almost a generation later this success has been parlayed into a large department store Some family youngsters are playing there after-hours and leave a candle lit or set off a firecracker That night the store burns to the ground and the
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