This is the ONLY ONE that I really like! Every time it starts to get sappy something happens to right it. It is an adult story told from a kid's point of view.
I watch it every year.
I used to have a cap like the weird kid in line to see Santa had. Mine did not have the goggles.
FAVORITE LINE..."YOU USED UP ALL THE GLUE ON PURPOSE!"
The movie pretty accurately describes what it was like to grow up in the Cleveland area during my youth. I’ve eaten in that restaurant. Good Dim Sum! The school looks exactly like my old school in Independence, a town just South of the city. But I think I read the school was in Indiana? Common architectural school plan back then.
a pic from the remake.
We watch it every year..it’s a classic!
Anyone who loves this book should read Jean Shepherd’s stories. The events in the movie appear in his books “In God we Trust, All others pay cash” and “Wanda Hickey’s Night of Golden Memories and other disasters.”
As a kid, I was a devoted listener of Jean Shepherd’s show on WOR, with my ear plastered to my transistor radio under the covers after curfew. He was a great storyteller.
When I was 6 my brother actually got me to put my tongue on a freezing cold banister post. Thank goodness it was only the tip...so the piece of my tongue that was torn off was actually rather small!
This was in 1964 - was the movie even out yet, or was my brother just ahead of his time?
It ain’t Christmas without it.
My hubby loves the film so much we had to travel to Cleveland to see the “house” where part of the movie was filmed. He never does anything like that. I thought it odd. I love the movie because it is my life. That is my father cursing the coal furnace. That is my mother trying to smooth over all the disasters. Those are my brothers who did such wonderful things and tried to exclude me. I guess it speaks to my generation (the Greatest).
Not a finger!
Never been able to watch more than five minutes of it. I’ve tried.
Every young boy who ever had a toy gun daydreamed of fighting off “Black Bart”. Men like the movie because we all had so many of the same experiences as Ralphie.
A crummy commercial?