A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story is a 1983 Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on the 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd, 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, and follows a young boy and his family's misadventures during Christmas time in December 1940. 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 living in Northwest Indiana around the late 1930s, all Ralphie wants for Christmas is a Red Ryder Carbine Action 200-shot Range Model air rifle. Ralphie's request is rejected by his mother, his teacher Miss Shields, and a disgruntled Santa at Higbee's store, all of whom insist Ralphie will shoot his eye out.
More details
| author | Bob Clark |
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| contentLocation | Indiana |
| director | Bob Clark |
| editor | Stan Cole |
| genre | adventure comedy saga |
| keywords | a christmas story house american football blanket sleeper bloodhound break chinese restaurant decoder pin f bomb fall fire department fishnet stocking football footed sleeper furnace guilty conscience hang help higbee\'s hillbilly hound dogs icicle lake michigan lifebuoy lifebuoy soap little orphan annie man change morning northwest indiana old man ovaltine peking duck pierre andre poison radio show red ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle reject ricochet secret decoder ring secret message set up spank talk the late 1930s turkey vignette |
| musicBy | Paul Zaza |
| producer | Bob Clark René Dupont |
| productionCompany | Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer |
| publisher | MGM/UA Entertainment Co. |
| recordedAt | Cleveland Toronto |
| theme | children's children's comedy |