This is a collection of tales as they are recollected by a person thinking back on their childhood, one Christmas. It has all the exaggerations with its difficulties.
Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley) spots a “Daisy Brand Red-Ryder BB” 200-shot Carbine with a compass, in the window of a story and fantasizes on how to get it for Christmas.
Will he succeed?
And if so, will he shoot his eye out?
I had one of those Davy Crockett hats when I was a kid. There were lots of other items and actions to which I could relate. However, my wife likes the watering method used by Melinda Dillon (mother) around the trophy. And she likes the way the mother conserved electricity by turning it off. I could see her snickering through the corner of my eye.
I am not sure I should have bought this movie. It may prove fatal to any window plan.
The sequel of “A Christmas Story”, “It Runs in the Family” (1994), lacks a lot of the originality of “A Christmas Story”.
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