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Summary: A HOLIDAY TREAT
Review: "A Christmas Story" is definitely a holiday tradition at
our home. This movie is the best. Perhaps it is because we can relate to the happenings in this laugh out loud movie. Dad yelling at the furnace and Mom pretending that he isn't saying words that kids should not hear....sound familiar? Oh, and
how about asking Santa for that special BB Rifle even when you are told over and over again, "You'll shoot your eye out."
A movie of a little boy, his life and his Christmas wish that becomes a reality! How special is that?
I love the winter scenes, the entire feel of the movie always takes me back to my own childhood. This one should be in every home and enjoyed every year!
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Summary: Special Edition Coming Soon!
Review: Ralphie Rules! However, you might want to wait a few weeks to order, as the Special Edition DVD set is coming in October 2003. This will be a 2 disc set with an anamorphic widescreen transfer. Finally!
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Summary: On it's way?!
Review: These movie is far beyond 'on it's way to becoming a classic'. I watch this movie each and every Christmas on TV, and love it the past few years when a station has it on for the 24 hours started mid-Christmas Eve and ending when the it's time for us kids to head upstairs to play w/ our new gear while the adults cook. This movie is priceless-the acting and storylines are superb. I love the part where the boy gets his tounge stuck and when Ralphie's little brother keeps hiding under the sink..Oh hey, it's all good!
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Summary: The Greastest Christmas Movie Ever!
Review: In 1983, the greatest Christmas movie of all-time was released: "A Christmas Story". This movie is my personal all-time favorite Christmas movie. When the Christmas season is coming, I can't stop watching the movie from November 30 - December 31. It's the only Christmas movie I can't get sick of. The cast, the story and the comedy is OUTSTANDING!! The movie starts out in a small Indiana town in the 1930's. Here we meet Ralphie Parker (Billingsley), a nine-year-old who is desperate to get his hands on the perfect Christmas gift: An official Red Rider Carbon-Action 200-shot loader range model air rifle. As badly as he wants this gift more than anything, his mom, teacher, and a mall Santa Claus say "You'll shoot your eye out!" That doesn't stop Ralphie from making his dream come true. As Christmas comes closer and closer, a bunch of mishaps happen between his friends, and his family. His friend Schwartz talked his other friend Flick into sticking his tounge to a flag pole, and his tounge got stuck. Then Ralphie beats up a school buly named Scut. His father (McGavin) wins a lamp that is in the form of a leg that he loves and nobody else does, including his warmhearted mother (Dillon). The really goofy side to his family is his cry-baby little brother Randy. He won't eat! He's always complaining and crying and his laugh is SO FUNNY! He's a typical six-year-old rugrat. Will Raplhie let a teacher, a mall Santa and even his own mother stop him from making his Christmas dream come true? You'll see. The movie really gets you into the holiday season. It's an EXCELLENT family movie. Everyone I know loves this movie. It's addicting! Your Christmas collection is not complete if you don't have this movie on your shelf. Even the T.V. station TNT does a 24-Hour marathon of "A Christmas Story" EVERY YEAR! Watch "A Christmas Story" and you will NOT be disappointed. Merry Christmas! Ho, Ho, Ho!
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Summary: A Christmas Classic.
Review: When A CHRISTMAS STORY originally arrived in theatres, it was only around for about three weeks because the studios didn't feel it would make any money and felt the story didn't lend itself to a longer theatrical run. It wasn't until the movie started airing on televsion and cable that people found out how great a movie A CHRISTMAS STORY is. Since then, the movie has become a piece of our American heritage, a part of the pop culture paradigm, and (like IT'S A WONDERFUL LIFE) a Christmas classic. The film revolves around nine-year-old Ralphie whose only wish for Christmas is to own a genuine Red Ryder 200-shot Carbine Action BB gun. However, everyone from his mother to his teacher to Santa Claus himself tells him it's too dangerous and that "You'll shoot your eye out, kid." Along the way, Ralphie and his friends and family get involved in all sorts of comic mishaps. However, in the end everything turns out alright and everyone has a merry Christmas. The movie is full of hilarious heartfelt nostalgia. Anyone who has ever been part of a family or from a rural (in mindset) town will enjoy watching this film again and again. Recommended for viewing at least once a year. And, oh, yeah; don't shoot your eye out. The DVD includes the original theatrical trailer.
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Summary: Who cares about widescreen?!
Review: Let's face it. 99% of the people who have seen this movie never saw it in theater. Their first experience, like mine, was either on video or a TV broadcast just before Christmas.
Perhaps whoever put out this DVD wanted some quick money, and therefore avoided the widescreen format. As for me, I love the fullscreen effect since it adds to the nostalgia of the film. It reminds me of seeing the movie as a kid for the first time on TV at Christmas time.
As for the film itself, this movie is quite easily the best Christmas movie ever made. The comments that it portrays a dysfuncitional family couldn't be farther from the truth. Besides telling a funny story, this movie portrays not only how most families are, but how they should be.
We have two young brothers who constantly fight the way brothers do, but never in a way to say they hate each other.
We have a mother constantly making sure her kids are safe and happy. Note the scenes where she brings Randy milk when he's crying, or how she diverts attention away from Ralphie after "the fight."
As a couple, the parents argue the same way all parents do. How would your wife react to a giant leg-shaped lamp?! Sure they argue at times, but aside from sharing every meal together as a family, we see Ralphie's parents at the end of the movie holding each other by Christmas tree light, watching the snow fall at night.
Then there's Ralphie's Dad. Sure he "works in profanity the way other artists work in oil...," but no one can deny the love he shows Ralphie Christmas morning. Throughout the movie Raphie tries to sell his mother into buying him a BB gun only to find out it was his Father who knew all along. When the Father is watching his overjoyed child unwrap and prepare his new treasure, I still smile everytime. In fact, the only travesty about this movie is that the Father didn't receive an Academy Award for Best Actor in this scene.
Overall this movie couldn't be better. In a world filled with politically correct super fuzzy Christmas movies, it's great to sit down and watch a classic Christmas movie.
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Summary: THIS MOVIE TAKES PLACE WHERE I LIVE
Review: Listen up people I am from HESSVILLE (HAMMOND) Indiana which is the same place where A Christmas Story takes place.its in the northwest part of indiana about 20 minutes from chicago and right next to Gary. now i wasnt around in the forties but i do know the area very well since i have lived here all of my life. and the way the movie is set up, its exactly the same then, than it is now.even the telephone pole where Flick gets his tounge stuck to is in the exact same spot as it is in the movie and you can even see 165th street when the fire department is getting his tongue off. the school Warren G Harding Elementary is the same, same name, same exact red building. But there are 2 things That I dont like about the movie and being from the same town in where this movie took place in, i feel that my opinion is valed, so if your not from around here then there are a few things that you should know and next time you watch this movie, keep them in mind. First, in the movie the narrator calls the town HOHMAN, Indiana, there is no such place as Hohman its really called Hammond,Indiana, Hohman is the the name of the main street in downtown Hammond and Its called Hohman Avenue, now i dont know why Jean Shepard did this And if he wanted to be really specific he would have called the town HESSVILLE which is the part of Hammond this story really takes place in. So the City is Hammond but Hessville is the part of Hammond where this movie is supposed to take place. Now in the movie Ralphie grew up on the LEFT side of Cleveland Street but in all actuallity he lived on the RIGHT side of Cleveland Street further down by (now known as FLICKS TAP which is a bar on Kennedy Ave. that FLICK himself built) see the movie is about Jean Shepard when he was a little kid but he gave some of the characters different names, and changed te name of the city, except for Flick and a few of his other friends, those are real people. now i thought the movie was great and everything else was perfect i think that jean shepard was a brilliant man (thats why we just built this recreation center and named it after him) I just wish he would have did the littles things that would, for me, make the movie even better. so IF YOUR ever in the area you should stop by theres alot of history here. thanks for your time
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Summary: A Christmas Story
Review: This movie is a blast from the past for those of us who grew up during the late 1940s and early 1950s. Great story, super casting, and a true heartwarmer.
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Summary: finialy a movie you can watch 50,000 times
Review: This is by far on of the best christmass movie of all time right next to It's a wonderful life
filled with comical lines such as " you look like a pink nightmare"
" Not a finga "
and of course who could forget it " you"ll shoot your eye out kid " ...
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Summary: Great family fare
Review: I first watched with my sons in 1985, and since it has been a must each year. Since my children are grown with children of their own, I continue to enjoy this movie with my grandchildren. Sometimes, I even watch it when I am feeling the need to go back home. I would reccommend this movie for everyone, especially Christmas grouches.
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