A Christmas Story (1983)



Format: DVDRip
Language: English
Color: Color
Runtime: 1 hour and 33 minutes

A Christmas Story is on its way to becoming an annual holiday classic, one to keep on
the shelf with It's a Wonderful Life, the puppet-animated Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer,
and A Charlie Brown Christmas. It may have been directed by Bob Clark (responsible for
the Porky's pictures), but it's based on the childhood memoirs of humorist Jean Shepherd
(from his hilarious book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash). And it is Shepherd's wry,
deadly accurate and gently nostalgic comic sensibility that shines through in this kid's-eye-view
of an all-American Christmas in the 1940s. All little Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) wants under the
tree on Christmas morning is a Daisy Brand Red-Ryder BB rifle. He not only wants it, he's
consumed with an aching desire for it. Unfortunately, his mother (Melinda Dillon) repeatedly
crushes his dreams with the familiar, harsh mantra: "You'll put your eye out!" Among the
movie's highlights are a surrealistic visit with little brother Randy to a department store Santa,
and the childlike mixture of delight, pride, and awe with which Ralphie's dad (Darren McGavin)
takes possession of a spectacularly gaudy prize he's won in a radio contest. McGavin should
have won an award for his splendid comic work as a middle-aged-kid-turned-patriarch who
alternates between grownup temper tantrums and unabashed juvenile joy.

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