Posted on 12/05/2008 11:11:43 AM PST by qam1
Fans of the holiday classic “A Christmas Story” are celebrating the film’s 25th anniversary with a convention and trips to the house where the movie was made.
The 1983 film, an adaptation of Jean Shepard’s memoir of a boy in the 1940s, was set in Indiana but largely filmed in Ohio. The movie starred Peter Billingsley as Ralphie Parker, a young boy determined to get a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas.
The film was a modest theatrical success, but critics loved it. It eventually joined “It’s a Wonderful Life” and “Miracle on 34th Street” as a Christmas classic.
“It’s a film about being a kid and looking back,” said Brian Jones, who owns the house where the movie was shot and the neighboring museum dedicated to the film.
About 4,000 fans attended the recent convention at Cleveland’s Renaissance Hotel, where they met some of the film’s actors, watched documentaries made about the film, and saw the original 1938 fire truck from a famous scene in the movie involving a child’s tongue stuck to a frozen pole.
“It is unbelievable that a movie has touched the lives of millions of families,” said Phil Gillen, son of the late actor Jeff Gillen who played the movie’s worn-out Santa Claus. He traveled from Miami with his family to attend the convention....
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Ah hah!
Thanks I know exactly who you are talking about.
Thanks!
LMAO!!!!!!!
“Oh, fudge.”
I want to go home.
It’s down by LTV Steel isn’t it? I promised to take my girls there one day.
I like the Bumpass’ dogs. ROFL when they come in and eat the turkey. You Bumpass’!!! The old man was broken hearted because he loved turkey.
That movie is the first DVD I bought (1998). Prior to the DVD, my family always checked the TV schedules for air dates. It is a family tradition to watch it at least once a year between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
little south of ltv by about 5 miles or so
>>The old man was broken hearted because he loved turkey<<
And because all they ever ate was meatloaf, red cabbage and mashed potatoes.
Except Randy who ate nothing.
Is it actually eastside or west?
I’m from Brook Park.
"I triple dog dare ya!" to watch it, then.
One of the all time best movie quotes....
Sorry, but this movie is the closest I can come to reliving my childhood. It gives the feel of authentic America in the late ‘40s throught the late ‘50s.
I know. I was there.
Chinese turkey! (Actually, after the dogs ate the turkey, they ate duck at a Chinese restaurant.)
He looks like Phil Donahue.
The sad part to this story...
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If you like lines like that, you will love the book!
LOL!
electric Sex
YES!!! That and ‘....sonsabitches...Bumpasses!!!”
He was so spitting mad he couldn’t talk!
Brilliant writing, perfect casting, oh-so-real look at a ‘normal’ family back then.
And didn’t Ralphie grow up good!
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