Whitestar
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When I was a kid during the early eighties, I had an ancient cable network known as WHT. This network came out roughly the same time when HBO did. Anyway, I recalled seeing a movie through WHT and it was about a mailman who loved trees. As he went about doing his deliveries by walking, he would talk to them and treated them as if they were people. As a result, he decides to become a tree by digging a hole in front of his yard. He stays there for days and one day it rains, and he catches a terrible cold. His wife come out to give him some medicine and begs him to come inside the house, but he refuses.
Finally the wife has had enough and calls for professional mental help. When the former mailman learns of this he runs off to a forest full of trees. He digs a hole to plant his feet in. His wife tracks him down and discovers a tree that wasn't there before. She comes to the conclusion that her husband has turned into a tree! The movie ends with her gently touching the leaves of this new tree which happens to be her husband. I have been trying to track down the name of this movie ever since, but at the time I saw it, I was a little boy. The actor who played the mailman looked like Hal Linden. So, I did a search on a list of his movies and found no such thing. Therefore, it must be an actor who looks very similar to him. I tried other methods for locating this movie but all attempts have failed. Does anyone know the title of this movie or who played in it?
Whitestar
Finally the wife has had enough and calls for professional mental help. When the former mailman learns of this he runs off to a forest full of trees. He digs a hole to plant his feet in. His wife tracks him down and discovers a tree that wasn't there before. She comes to the conclusion that her husband has turned into a tree! The movie ends with her gently touching the leaves of this new tree which happens to be her husband. I have been trying to track down the name of this movie ever since, but at the time I saw it, I was a little boy. The actor who played the mailman looked like Hal Linden. So, I did a search on a list of his movies and found no such thing. Therefore, it must be an actor who looks very similar to him. I tried other methods for locating this movie but all attempts have failed. Does anyone know the title of this movie or who played in it?
Whitestar
