[SwinneySwitch]

Mrs. Switch first saw this article. Our family now watches it every year!

[Rocko]

Thanks to a positive review on the Ebert/Siskel television program, I was fortunate to see this in a theatre before most people ever heard of it. I see it multiple times every year.

[Hodapp]

I saw it the first night it opened, being a huge Jean Shepherd fan. It was truly a case of the stars in the right place. Clark eventually got the studio to let him make a sequel, originally called "A Summer Story," and later retitled "It Runs In The Family." The cast was deplorable, even though Jean Shepherd's narration and story vignettes were were just as great. Although the Gravy Boat Wars incident is almost worth sitting though it.

A shame they mention Porky's but not Clark's truly great pre-Porky's film, "Murder By Decree", shamelessly ripped off a couple of years ago as "From Hell."

[petercooper]

HO... HO...... HO...........

[latina4dubya]

i saw it the first night it opened... i hadn't even heard of it, but a good friend of mine insisted we see it... he's the kind of person who's always up on the cool trendy stuff--and the weird "out there" stuff that few people ever know about... i loved it... and still do... when the marathon is on TNT, each time before we turn on the tv, we try to guess what part of the movie is playing at that moment...

[Boxsford]

What really shocked me was when I found out this movie was made in the 80's. It is so well made. Can't find anything that doesn't speak to the time period of the movie. Right down to the snowsuits and strings on the gloves.

[paulklenk]

This movie is a classic, and we ought to Freep the studio to get a theatre re-release next year. It would promise to be THE film event of the Christmas season.

I love the music from Peter and The Wolf, and the frozen tongue episode, the Major Award (a lamp), and the unfriendly Santa and elves.

"Not, 'Fa ra ra ra ra!' 'Fa la la la la!'"

"It's... it's... smiling at me!"

[xp38]

The grown-up Peter Billingsley, who starred as Ralphie, in the classic film "A Christmas Story." (AP/Reed Saxon)

[MarkL]

Movies that I must see every year around Christmas...

1) Monty Python & the Holy Grail (has nothing to do with Christmas, but I need to see it on a regular basis, anyway!)

2) Miracle on 34th Street. The Original one... The one with Sebastian Cabbot was awful, the one with Sir Richard Attenbourough is OK... Buy why watch a "store front Santa" when you can watch the REAL Santa?

3) It's a Wonderful Life. I still cry every year when I watch that.

4) A Christmas Story.

Mark

[Dr. Eckleburg]

Here's a great site. More to remember...

http://acs.flicklives.com/Movie/movie_trivia.htm

[Revolting cat!]

I've heard there are sites on the web where that let you download Jean Shepherd's old radio chats free or charge (and others that sell them, of course.) I haven't looked, does anyone have info
on that?

[cyclotic]

I bought the kids a Red Ryder for Christmas. Alas, no compass in the stock and that thing that tells time. It's a little muddy in the yard, so I made a trap box in the basement. We're killing a whole bunch of pop cans.

When the kids came downstairs Christmas morning, my 4 year old yells "It's a Red Ryder BB Gun!" just from seeing the wrapped package. All thatnks to a recent viewing of our favorite Christmas film.

[nmh]

Never in 20 years, till now I have heard this phrase associated with Christmas -> "You'll shoot your eye out!"

[BulletBobCo]

I drive my wife nuts by switching on TNT to watch A Christmas Story throughout the marathon. Up to this year, I don't believe there were any breaks for commercials, that it was shown uninterrupted. Was this the first year that commercials were thrown in?

[tal hajus]

I watched "Christmas Story" only once, and believe me that was more than enough!! "It's a Wonderful Life" was a once only also. Anybody else out there who thinks that these movies are over-hyped and over shown??