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thanks for this!!! A Christmas Story is a huge part of my family's Christmas. We love it!!
A great movie. Really captured the mood of that era.
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I could've sworn that kid grew up to be Phil Donahue.
Let me be the first to say that he still has both eyes.
It doesn't mention his role as "Messy Marvin" in the Hershey's chocolate syrup ads!
What I like about "A Christmas Story" is that it's throwback to the good old days of Hollywood, a nice family film, pure Americana. Such a film today would never get green-lighted. Liberals would scream bloody murder at Billingsley's character requesting a BB gun. And the scene where he kicking the bully's behind? Forget it - the school would make him attend sensitivity classes. And the dogs running around the house eating up the turkey? PETA would get mad as well.
We still talk about the Bumpus' hounds next door.
I just absolutely love 'A Christmas Story', and I always have one of our TVs set constantly on 'A Christmas Story ', so that no matter what I am doing on Christmas Eve, or Christmas Day, I can peek in and watch for a while...I always manage to set 2 hours aside, somewhere in all the business of the Christmas season, to watch the film in its entirety...its just such a great movie...
I guess I just love it so much, as it takes place during the time frame, just a little before my time....everything looks so familiar in that movie...kids wearing galoshes, wearing long johns and sweaters in the house to keep warm, the old car, the haggling at the Christmas tree lot...
And the old man(Darren McGavin), just slays me with his facial expressions...when he offers Ralphie a glass of wine on Christmas morning, I am reminded of my own dad and my uncle who lived downstairs, who always offered me and my brother and my cousins a drink of wine of Christmas morning...(it wasnt bad, but it wasnt good either...we must have been drinking the same wine as they were, it was Mogen David wine)...
That movie just takes me completely back to my childhood years, and good years they were...
Thirty one posts and no one has said it yet?
You'll shoot your eye out!
I grew up in the late 30s and 40s and folks, that's the way it really was! I'll never forget my Granddad's unending war with the coal furnace, kids getting tongues stuck on metallic objects, the guerilla battles with bullies to and from school and my beloved Red Ryder BB gun(s) -- I owned several. I still have both eyes too and I've owned lots of real guns since.
Shepherd remembered the era with amazing detail and totally captured the mood of a time I remember with great longing and fondness.
People used to tell me that I should get my oldest daughter into movies or advertisements, but she ended up being an American record holder in swimming.
So far no one has mentioned ( I guess no one saw it) that only a few years after the Christmas Story movie, the tragic Challenger space launch (in '87?) had in its audience , live at the event, among others, Peter Billingsley, whose face was as delighted as everyone else's watching Challenger go up, and horribly stricken as he watched the Challenger blow up/ anyone else remember seeing this and identifying him as someone there in the audience?
I love this movie! So glad Peter Billingsley's parents raised him well. He sounds very level headed and well grounded.
Wanna see a 30 second recap of the movie, done by cartoon bunnies? (don't ask!)
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With as much dignity as he could muster, the Old Man gathered up the sad remains of his shattered Major Award. Later that night, alone in the backyard, he buried it next to the garage. Now I could never be sure, but I thought that I heard the sound of "Taps" being played. Gently.
I just love this movie!
The furnace scenes crack me up. My brother and I fed our furnace many a shovelful of sawdust in those good ole days!
And I remember being bundled up in a snowsuit and galoshes.
Oh, the smell of snow-wet wool. Great movie!