For Christmas classics, this is one of those films that you just want to watch with the family during the holidays.
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TITLE: A CHRISTMAS STORY
YEAR OF FILM: 1983
COMPANY: Warner Home Video
RATED: PG
DURATION: 93 minutes
Based on the Novel “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash” by Jean Shepherd
Directed by Bob Clark
Screenplay by Jean Shepherd, Leigh Brown, Bob Clark
Executive Producer: Denielle Jackson, Kelly Rowland, Loretha C. Jones, Tim Weatherspoon
Produced by Bob Clark, Rene Dupon
Associate Producer: Gary Goch
Music by Paul Zaza, Carl Zittrer
Cinematography by Reginald H. Morris
Edited by Stan Cole
Casting by Jane Feinberg, Mike Fenton, Marci Liroff
Production Design by Reuben Freed
Art Direction by Gavin Mitchell
Set Decoration by Mark S. Freeborn
Costume Design by Mary E. McLeod
Starring:
Peter Billingsley as Ralphie
Melinda Dillon as Mother Parker
Darren McGavin as The Old Man Parker
R.D. Robb as Schwartz
Scott Schwartz as Flick
Zack Ward as Scut Farkus
Yano Anaya as Grover Dill
Jeff Gillen as Santa Claus
Jean Shephard (voice of Ralphie as an adult)
For day 38 and how can I not watch the ultimate Christmas classic, “A Christmas Story”. It’s a must watch each year during the Christmas holidays!
“A Christmas Story” is one of those classics that you feel, needs to be watched every Holiday season. I can remember watching this film a jillion times as a child and now having the opportunity to share the film with my kids.
Despite being a low-budget film at that time, what made this film become a classic is that, it’s a Christmas story of an American family in the 1940’s. Ralphie is a child who listens to Orphan Annie on the radio, reads comic books and wants a Red Ryder Air Gun for Christmas.
But of course, how can he convince his parents to buy him one when his mother thinks he’ll shoot his eye out. So, you get to see how Ralphie tries to get the gun by trying to get a good grade on his school report, to planting an ad in his mother’s favorite magazine and even going to the mall and talking to Santa.
But the magical part of this film are its characters. Every character from Ralphie’s family to his friends, everything comes together quite well. From his father who wins an award which is a leg (in fishnet stockings) lamp, his friends being bullied by Scotty Farkus, his brother who is overly dressed in his snowsuit, his friend sticking his tongue on a pole to see if it would get stuck and much more.
For me, “A CHRISTMAS STORY” is like “It’s a Wonderful Life” and even “Home Alone”. Films that are Christmas classics that you just want to watch with the family during the holidays.
“A CHRISTMAS STORY” has been a part of so many families holiday’s for over 25 years and remains one of the classics next to “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Charlie Brown Christmas” (and other classics) shown every year and watched by many.
It’s a true-to-heart tale and the way it’s written, it’s not fluffy, it’s the life of a young boy who wants a Christmas present but his parents are not exactly “Brady Bunch”, magical parents. Blue collar father with a temper, mother who does her best to take care of the kids during the 1940’s of fascination with decoder rings and Ovaltine.
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