A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story is a 1983 Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, with some elements from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters. It stars Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, and Peter Billingsley. Widely considered a holiday classic in the United States and Canada, it has been shown in a marathon annually on TNT since 1997 and on TBS since 2004 titled "24 Hours of A Christmas Story", consisting of 12 consecutive airings of the film from the evening of Christmas Eve to the evening of Christmas Day annually. It is the third installment in the Parker Family Saga.
Plot
The film is presented in a series of vignettes, with narration provided by the adult Ralphie Parker. As a 9-year-old boy in 1940, all Ralphie wanted for Christmas was a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle. Ralphie's desire is rejected by his mother, his teacher Miss Shields, and a disgruntled Santa Claus at Higbee's department store, all of whom give him the same warning: "You'll shoot your eye out".
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author | Bob Clark |
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contentLocation | Indiana |
director | Bob Clark |
editor | Stan Cole |
genre | comedy saga |
keywords | a christmas story house american football blanket sleeper bloodhound break chinese restaurant chinese turkey department store eat embarrass fall fire department fishnet stocking football hang help higbee\'s hillbilly hound dogs icicle lake michigan lifebuoy lifebuoy soap little orphan annie man change morning old man onesie ovaltine peking duck poison radio show red ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle reject ricochet run santa claus secret decoder ring secret message set up talk vignette want warn |
musicBy | Paul Zaza |
producer | Bob Clark René Dupont |
productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
publisher | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Turner Entertainment Co. Warner Bros. Pictures |
recordedAt | Cleveland Toronto |
theme | children's comedy |