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1983 film past Bob Clark

A Christmas Story
A Christmas Story film poster.jpg

Theatrical release poster
Directed past Bob Clark
Screenplay by
  • Jean Shepherd
  • Leigh Brown
  • Bob Clark
Based on In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash
by Jean Shepherd
Produced by
  • René Dupont
  • Bob Clark
Starring
  • Melinda Dillon
  • Darren McGavin
  • Peter Billingsley
Narrated by Jean Shepherd
Cinematography Reginald H. Morris
Edited by Stan Cole
Music past
  • Paul Zaza
  • Carl Zittrer

Production
company

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Distributed past MGM/UA Amusement Co.

Release date
  • November eighteen, 1983 (1983-11-18)

Running time

 94 minutes[one]
Countries
  • United states of america
  • Canada
Linguistic communication English
Budget $3.three million[1]
Box office $twenty.eight one thousand thousand[2]

A Christmas Story is a 1983 Christmas comedy moving-picture show directed past Bob Clark and based on Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book In God Nosotros Trust: All Others Pay Greenbacks, with some elements from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey's Nighttime of Golden Memories And Other Disasters. It stars Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, and Peter Billingsley and is a seasonal classic in Northward America. It has been shown in a marathon annually on TNT since 1997 and on TBS since 2004 titled "24 Hours of A Christmas Story", consisting of 12 sequent airings of the motion picture from the evening of Christmas Eve to the evening of Christmas Twenty-four hour period annually.[iii] Information technology is often ranked every bit one of the best Christmas films.

The moving-picture show was released on November 18, 1983 and information technology received positive reviews from critics. Filmed partly in Canada, it earned two Canadian Genie Awards in 1984. In 2012, it was selected for preservation in the United States National Film Registry by the Library of Congress for being "culturally, historically, or aesthetically significant".[four] [5] [6]

Plot [edit]

The front end of the Parkers' business firm where A Christmas Story was filmed in the Tremont neighborhood of Cleveland's due west side. The building was restored and reconfigured inside to match the soundstage interiors and is open to the public as A Christmas Story Firm.

The movie is presented in a serial of vignettes, with narration provided by the adult Ralphie Parker reminiscing on one particular Christmas when he was nine years former. Ralphie wanted only ane affair that Christmas: a Red Ryder Carbine Activeness 200-shot Range Model air rifle. Ralphie'due south desire is rejected past his mother, his teacher Miss Shields, and even a Santa Claus at Higbee's department store, all giving him the same warning: "Yous'll shoot your heart out".

On Christmas morning, Ralphie receives some presents that he enjoys merely is disappointed not to find the rifle amid them. When it appears that all of the presents have been opened, Ralphie's begetter ("The Old Homo") directs him to one last box hidden in the corner, which proves to contain the rifle. He eagerly hurries outside to try it out, attaching a target to a metal sign in the backyard; when he fires, the BB ricochets back and hits him in the face up. Believing at get-go that he has indeed shot his eye out, he realizes that the BB only knocked his glasses off and begins searching for them in the snow, only to step on them past blow and intermission them. He lies to his mother that a falling icicle struck him in the confront and broke his glasses, and she believes him and takes him to the bathroom to go cleaned up.

That night, Ralphie goes to sleep with the gun by his side as his adult self reflects that it was the best Christmas present he had e'er received or would always receive.

Other vignettes [edit]

Interspersed with the main story are several loosely related vignettes involving the Parkers:

  • The Old Homo wins a "major award" in a contest – a table lamp in the shape of a woman's leg wearing a fishnet stocking. The Sometime Man is overjoyed only Mrs. Parker is not. "The Battle of the Lamp" develops, catastrophe with Mrs. Parker "accidentally" destroying information technology, much to the Onetime Homo'southward fury. Unable to fix the lamp, he defeatedly buries the remains in the lawn.[7] [eight]
  • The Old Homo also fights a never-ending battle with the malfunctioning furnace in the Parker dwelling. His frustrations cause him to swear quite oft, including one profanity-laden rant (heard every bit gibberish) that the adult Ralphie says "is all the same hanging in space over Lake Michigan".[9] His influence later reflects back upon Ralphie when The Old Man's motorcar of a sudden blows a tire, and Mrs. Parker suggests that Ralphie help his father change the tire. While holding the bolts in the tire's hubcap, The Erstwhile Man accidentally knocks them out of Ralphie's hands, causing Ralphie to utter profanity and have his mouth done out with lather.
  • However another source of frustration for The Old Man is the dogs that vest to the Bumpus family, the Parkers' hillbilly next-door neighbors. The Bumpus own "at to the lowest degree 785 evil-smelling hound dogs" that harass The Old Man whenever he comes habitation from work. On Christmas Day, the dogs ruin the family's dinner by romping through their kitchen and eating their turkey, forcing the family to become to a Chinese eating house for Christmas dinner.[10]
  • Ralphie and his friends Flick and Schwartz along with Randy are tormented by the neighborhood bullies Scut Farkus and Grover Dill. Ralphie eventually snaps and beats up Farkus.[xi] Mrs. Parker catches him mid-fight and Ralphie expects her to tell The Old Human, but instead she redirects the conversation to a football, leading The Old Man to brush it off.

Cast [edit]

  • Peter Billingsley as Ralphie Parker
  • Jean Shepherd as adult Ralphie (voice) / human continuing in the Santa Claus line at Higbee's
  • Ian Petrella as Randy Parker
  • Melinda Dillon as Mrs Parker
  • Darren McGavin as Mr Parker (The Old Homo)
  • Scott Schwartz as Flick
  • R. D. Robb as Schwartz
  • Zack Ward as Scut Farkus
  • Yano Anaya as Grover Dill
  • Tedde Moore every bit Miss Shields
  • Jeff Gillen as Santa Claus
  • Patty Johnson every bit Lead Elf[12]
  • Drew Hocevar as Male Elf[12]
  • Leslie Carlson equally Christmas Tree Salesman

Casting [edit]

The basis of the screenplay is a series of monologues written and performed past Jean Shepherd on the radio. Shepherd wrote the adaptation with Bob Clark and Leigh Brown. Several subplots are incorporated into the torso of the film, based on other divide brusk stories by Shepherd. Shepherd provides the film's narration from the perspective of an adult Ralphie, a narrative style later used in the comedy-drama tv set serial The Wonder Years. Shepherd, Dark-brown, and Clark have cameo appearances in the pic: Shepherd plays the human who directs Ralphie and Randy to the back of the Santa line at the department store; Brownish – Shepherd's wife in real life – plays the woman in the Santa line with Shepherd; Clark plays Swede, the neighbor the Old Man talks to exterior during the Leg Lamp scene.[xiii]

In the DVD commentary, manager Bob Clark mentions that Jack Nicholson was considered for the role of the Erstwhile Human; Clark expresses gratitude that he ended up with Darren McGavin instead, who later appeared in several other Clark films. He cast Melinda Dillon on the basis of her similar role in Close Encounters of the Third Kind. Some viii,000 actors auditioned for the office of Ralphie, amidst the 8,000 actors were Keith Coogan, Sean Astin and Wil Wheaton;[14] [fifteen] "He walked in, and he had united states of america from the first", Clark later recalled of Peter Billingsley who was already a successful actor in commercials[13] and from co-hosting the Television set series Real People. Clark initially wanted him for the role of Ralphie merely decided he was "likewise obvious" a choice and auditioned many other young actors before realizing that Billingsley was the right choice after all.

Ian Petrella was cast immediately before filming began. Tedde Moore had previously appeared in Clark's flick Murder by Decree and was the only onscreen character from A Christmas Story who was played by the same player in the sequel, My Summertime Story. Jeff Gillen was an old friend of Clark'due south who had been in one of his earliest films. The schoolyard neat, Scut Farkus, was played past Zack Ward, now an thespian, writer and manager, who had actually been bullied himself while in uncomplicated schoolhouse. In 2017, he said he was surprised at the touch on his function had over the years: "I saw that I was ranked – as Christmas villains get – higher than the Grinch. That'south amazing".[17]

Product [edit]

The screenplay for A Christmas Story is based on material from author Jean Shepherd'due south drove of short stories, In God Nosotros Trust, All Others Pay Cash. Three of the semi-autobiographical short stories on which the motion picture is based were originally published in Playboy magazine betwixt 1964 and 1966.[eighteen] Shepherd later read "Duel in the Snow, or Red Ryder nails the Cleveland Street Kid" and told the otherwise unpublished story "Flick's Tongue" on his WOR Radio talk testify, every bit can exist heard in one of the DVD extras.[19] Bob Clark states on the DVD commentary that he became interested in Shepherd's work when he heard "Flick's Natural language" on the radio in 1968. Additional source material for the picture show, according to Clark, came from unpublished anecdotes that Shepherd told live audiences "on the higher circuit". While shooting scenes in Cleveland in early 1983, Clark told a reporter that it had taken him a considerable amount of years to get the film into production.[20] Shepherd envisioned his stories as "Dickens'south Christmas Carol as retold past Scrooge", although Clark would soften information technology for the movie; the two did not particularly get along, as Clark did not admire Shepherd'southward attempts at trying to guide the actors with ideas well-nigh how the characters should be played, to the signal where he had him barred from the set.[21] [22]

Locations [edit]

The film is set in Hohman, Indiana, a fictionalized version of Shepherd's hometown of Hammond, well-nigh Chicago. The proper name is derived from Hohman Avenue, a major street in downtown Hammond.[23] Local references in the picture include Warren K. Harding Uncomplicated School and Cleveland Street (where Shepherd spent his childhood). Other local references include mention of a person "swallowing a yo-yo" in nearby Griffith,[23] the Old Man being 1 of the fiercest "furnace fighters in Northern Indiana" and that his obscenities were "hanging in infinite over Lake Michigan", a mention of the Indianapolis 500, and the line to Santa Claus "stretching all the manner to Terre Haute". The Erstwhile Human is also revealed to exist a fan of the Bears (whom he jokingly calls the "Chicago Chipmunks") and White Sox, consistent with living in northwest Indiana. In commemoration of the setting, the City of Hammond holds an almanac exhibit regarding the film in November and Dec, including a statue recreating the scene where Ralphie'south friend Flick freezes his tongue to a flagpole.[24]

Managing director Bob Clark reportedly sent scouts to twenty cities before selecting Cleveland for exterior filming. Cleveland was chosen because of Higbee'south Department Shop in downtown Cleveland. (Since Higbee's was exclusive to northeast Ohio,[25] the section store referred to in Shepherd'south book and the picture show is well-nigh likely Goldblatt'due south, located in downtown Hammond (with the Cam-Lan Chinese Restaurant three doors down on Sibley Ave). Until they connected with Higbee'due south, location scouts had been unsuccessful in finding a department shop that was willing to exist role of the film. Higbee's vice president Bruce Campbell agreed to take function in the project on the status he is allowed to edit the script for cursing. Ultimately, Higbee'south was the stage for three scenes in the film:

  • The opening scene in which Ralphie first spies the Red Ryder BB Gun in the store'southward Christmas window display. Higbee's was known for its elaborate, kid-centered Christmas themes and decorations, with Santa every bit the centerpiece.
  • The parade scene, filmed simply exterior Higbee's on Public Square at three AM. The parade was filmed at night because during the daytime the 1960s Erieview Tower and Federal Building was visible from the Public Square, equally was the BP Tower, which was under construction at the time.
  • Ralphie and Randy's visit to see Santa, which was filmed inside Higbee's. The store kept the Santa slide that was made for the moving picture and used information technology for several years later the picture'southward release. Higbee'due south became Dillard'south in 1992 and airtight permanently in 2002.[25]

In addition to the scenes involving Higbee's, the outside shots (and select interior shots where Ralphie lived, including the opening of the leg lamp) of the business firm and neighborhood, were filmed in the Tremont section of Cleveland's West Side. The business firm used as the Parker home in these scenes has been restored, reconfigured inside to match the soundstage interiors, and opened to the public as "A Christmas Story House". Appropriately, the fictional adolescence abode of Ralphie Parker is on Cleveland Street, the name of the actual street where Shepherd grew upward.

Several other locations were used. The school scenes were shot at the Victoria School in St. Catharines, Ontario.[26] The Christmas tree-purchasing scene was filmed in Toronto, Ontario, equally was the sound stage filming of interior shots of the Parker home.[27] [28] The "...only I didn't say fudge" scene was filmed at the foot of Red Street in Toronto; several lake freighters are visible in the background spending the wintertime at Toronto's port, which lends authenticity to the time of yr when the film was produced.

In 2008, two Canadian fans released a documentary that visits every location. Their film, Road Trip for Ralphie, was shot over two years and includes footage of the filmmakers saving Miss Shields' blackboard from the garbage bin on the day the old Victoria School was gutted for renovation, discovering the antique fire truck that saved Pic, locating original costumes from the film, and tracking down the location of the film'due south Chop Suey Palace in Toronto.[29]

Cherry Ryder BB Gun [edit]

The "Red Ryder" model BB Gun was manufactured in Plymouth, Michigan by Daisy, offset in 1940; information technology was never manufactured in the exact configuration mentioned in the pic. The Daisy "Buck Jones" model did have a compass and a sundial in the stock, but these features were non included in the Red Ryder model.[30] The compass and sundial were placed on Ralphie's BB gun, just on the opposite side of the stock due to Peter Billingsley being left-handed.[31]

Dating the story [edit]

Director Bob Clark stated in the pic'southward DVD commentary that both he and writer Shepherd wished for the flick to exist seen as "amorphously late-'30s, early on-'40s".[32] A specific twelvemonth is never explicitly mentioned in the flick. The Look magazine that Ralphie hides the Red Ryder ad in, is the December 1937 cover with Shirley Temple and Santa. Ralphie'south Footling Orphan Annie Secret Society Decoder Pivot bears the date 1940 (and is the existent-life decoder pin released to society members that year, though past that fourth dimension Ovaltine had ceased its sponsorship and Quaker was the primary sponsor of the serial), the parade in front of Higbee's features characters from MGM'south version of The Wizard of Oz, which was released in 1939, and Globe War Two, which the The states entered in December 1941, is never mentioned. Despite the director and author both stating that the twelvemonth has been obfuscated, numerous sources, including The New York Times and CBS News, have dated the picture show to 1940 or the early 1940s.[33] [34] [35] [36]

The existent Shepherd was several years older than Ralphie; Shepherd was intentionally dishonest well-nigh many of the details of his own life and regularly obscured the line between fact and fiction in his writings.[37] A instructor named "Miss Shields" was Shepherd's second-grade teacher at Warren One thousand. Harding Elementary School in 1928.[38] Past 1939, Shepherd had already graduated from loftier school.[39]

Release and reception [edit]

Initially disregarded equally a sleeper film,[40] A Christmas Story was released a week before Thanksgiving 1983 to moderate success, earning about $2 meg in its offset weekend.[41] Roger Ebert, who gave the flick four stars out of four and added the film to his "Great Movies" list, suggested the film had just modest success because vacation-themed films were not popular at the fourth dimension.[42] Vincent Canby'southward mostly negative The New York Times review complained that "the movie's large comic pieces tend only to be exceedingly busy. Though Mr Billingsley, Mr Gavin [sic], Miss Dillon and the extra who plays Ralphie'due south school teacher (Tedde Moore) are all very able, they are less funny than actors in a television situation one-act".[33]

In Canada, the film would go on to win two categories in the 5th Genie Awards, for Director Bob Clark and Best Original Screenplay for the work of Leigh Brown, Bob Clark and Jean Shepherd.[43]

By Christmas 1983, the film was no longer playing at most venues simply remained in most a hundred theatres until January 1984. Gross earnings were but over $xix.two million.[41] In the years since, due to boob tube airings and home video release, A Christmas Story has become widely pop and is at present an annual Christmas special. The picture show was produced and released by Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer. The rights to the film were acquired by Turner Entertainment Co. after Ted Turner's purchase of MGM'south pre-1986 film library. Later, Time Warner purchased Turner Amusement, and currently holds rights to the picture show as Warner Bros. Discovery.

Over the years, the film's disquisitional reputation has grown considerably and it is regarded by some as ane of the best films of 1983.[44] Based on 57 reviews on Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an overall blessing rating from critics of 90%, with an average score of viii.53/10. The site's consensus reads: "Both warmly nostalgic and darkly humorous, A Christmas Story deserves its status as a holiday perennial".[45] On Metacritic, the film has a score of 77 out of 100, based on 16 critics, indicating "generally favorable reviews".[46] In his moving-picture show guide, Leonard Maltin awarded the picture show a rare[ citation needed ] four-star rating, calling the motion-picture show "delightful" and "truly funny for kids and grown-ups alike" with "wonderful period flavor".[47]

On December 24, 2007, AOL ranked the film their #1 Christmas film of all time.[48] IGN ranked the film the pinnacle holiday-themed picture show of all time.[49] In 2012, a Marist Poll named the movie the favorite vacation picture show in the US.[50] In 2019, a poll deputed past Tubitv and conducted by Onepoll as well ranked the film Best Holiday Picture show Ever.[51]

Lawsuit [edit]

In Baronial 2011, Zack Ward, who play Scut Farkus in the film, sued Warner Bros. and Enesco over merchandising for the moving picture after the company authorized a figure resembling his grapheme from the moving-picture show without his permission.[52] It was revealed that when he signed on to play that character, he didn't receive any merchandising rights because of a mishap with his contract.[52] The lawsuit was dropped in Jan 2012 afterwards Warner Bros. revealed that the figurine showed a "generic face" that has been used on them since 2006 and that statute of limitations had run out.[53]

In Dec 2012, Ward sued Warner Bros. again over his image later attending the annual Christmas Story charity fundraiser convention in Cleveland in November 2010 after a fan handed him a Christmas Story lath game, playing cards, and calendar showing his face.[54] The lawsuit was settled 3 days subsequently.[55]

Broadcasting and home media release [edit]

Television set [edit]

The film first aired on television on premium networks The Movie Aqueduct,[56] HBO,[57] and Showtime[58] every bit early as Dec 1985, and rapidly attracted a growing post-obit. In the late 1980s and early on 1990s, the moving-picture show began airing quietly on SuperStation WTBS and Superstation WGN.[59] In 1988, the film started ambulation on local television stations.[59] In 1989[60] and 1990,[61] TBS showed information technology Thanksgiving night, while in 1991[62] and 1992,[63] they aired it the night after.

24 Hours of A Christmas Story [edit]

Turner Broadcasting has maintained ownership of the broadcast rights, and since the mid-1990s, aired the film increasingly on TBS, TNT, and TCM. Past 1995, it was aired on those networks a combined six times on Dec 24–26,[64] [65] and in 1996, it was aired eight times over four days, not including local airings.[66]

Due to the increasing popularity of the film, in 1997, TNT began airing a 24-hour marathon dubbed "24 Hours of A Christmas Story", consisting of the movie shown twelve consecutive times beginning at eight p.chiliad. on Christmas Eve and ending at 8 p.k. on Christmas Day.[59] This was in add-on to various other airings before in the month of December. In 2004, after TNT switched to a predominantly drama format, sister network TBS, under its comedy-based "Very Funny" moniker, took over the marathon. Clark stated that, in 2002, an estimated 38.4 meg people tuned into the marathon at one point or some other, nearly one 6th of the country. TBS reported 45.4 million viewers in 2005,[67] and 45.5 meg in 2006.[68] In 2007, new all-time ratings records were gear up,[69] with the highest single showing (8 p.1000. Christmas Eve) drawing four.4 million viewers.[69] Viewership increased again in 2008, with 8 p.m. Christmas Eve cartoon 4.5 million viewers, and 10 p.1000. drawing iv.3 million,[70] and 54.iv million total.[71] As of 2009, the film had been shown 250 times on the Turner family of networks.[71]

In 2007, the marathon continued, and the original tradition was revived. TNT also aired the film twice the Sunday of Thanksgiving weekend (November 25). In 2009, the 24-hour marathon connected on TBS, for the 13th overall twelvemonth, starting at 8 p.m. eastern on Christmas Eve.[72]

In 2009, the film aired on TBS during a 24-hour marathon on Christmas Eve. The first viewing at 8 p.grand. Eastern on December 24 earned a 1.six rating (18–49) and beat the major broadcast networks (NBC, ABC, CBS, and Trick).[73] In 2010, the marathon averaged iii million viewers, up 2% from the previous year, ranking TBS as the top cablevision network for the 24-hr menses. The x a.one thousand. airing on December 25 was seen by 4.4 million viewers, and the eight p.g. airing on Dec 24 was close behind with four.3 1000000 viewers.[74] The marathons in 2011[75] and 2012[76] continued to see increases in ratings.

For the 2014 and 2015 editions of the marathon, Turner elected to simulcast it on both TNT and TBS, marking the first fourth dimension since 2003 that TNT aired it also as the first time the marathon was being carried by multiple stations; the two networks ready their airings 1 60 minutes apart (so that the TNT airings began while TBS was at the centre of the movie). (December 24 at eight:00 PM to December 25 at eight:00 PM) - (TBS) - (Dec 24 at 9:00 PM to Dec 25 at 9:00 PM) - (TNT)[77] [78] Both networks have run 24-hr marathons with the one-hour offset format from 2014 annually making it a new tradition for both TBS and TNT networks.[3] For 2019, a bulk of the nigh-watched programs—thirteen out of the acme 25—broadcast on cablevision Christmas Day were A Christmas Story.[79]

Subsequent screen adaptations and sequels [edit]

The PBS series American Playhouse produced 2 subsequent telly motion-picture show adaptations featuring the same characters, too with Shepherd narrating: The Star-Crossed Romance of Josephine Cosnowski and Ollie Hopnoodle'due south Oasis of Bliss. The latter of these was set in the early 1950s with a now-teenaged Ralphie and his friends and family unit. Shepherd had previously created The Phantom of the Open Hearth and The Slap-up American Fourth of July and Other Disasters for the same network.[lxxx]

A theatrical sequel involving Ralphie and his family unit, titled It Runs in the Family, was made in 1994. With the exceptions of Tedde Moore equally Miss Shields (Ralphie's teacher) and Jean Shepherd as the narrator (the voice of the adult Ralphie), it features an entirely different cast. It received a express release before beingness retitled My Summer Story for home video and television release.[81]

A Christmas Story 2 is a direct sequel to the film, which ignores the references and events of My Summer Story and was released direct-to-video in 2012[82] and directed past Brian Levant. It was filmed in New Westminster, British Columbia, Canada.[83]

Some other sequel to the picture (which has no relation with A Christmas Story 2) is in production, entitled A Christmas Story Christmas. The motion picture volition be directed by The Christmas Chronicles manager Clay Kaytis and written by The Mule author Nick Schenk (who volition besides executive produce).[84] Peter Billingsley, the primary graphic symbol of the original flick will star in and produce the motion-picture show with Vince Vaughn via Wild West Picture Prove Productions. Product began in Republic of hungary and the Commonwealth of Bulgaria in late February 2022. The motion picture is scheduled to be released in the United states of america via streaming on HBO Max by Warner Bros. Discovery Global Streaming & Interactive Entertainment on Nov 17, 2022.[85] It volition take identify in the 1970s following an adult Ralphie communicable upwards with his old babyhood friends.[86] [87] Ian Petrella, Scott Schwartz, R. D. Robb, and Zack Ward will reprise their roles of Randy Parker, Picture show, Schwartz, and Scut Farkus, respectively.[88] Erinn Hayes, River Drosche, and Julianna Layne will play Ralphie's wife and his kids while Julie Hagerty will play Mrs. Parker in a role originated by Melinda Dillon (who retired from acting in 2007) in the original picture.[89] The film will be dedicated to the retentiveness of Darren McGavin (who played Ralphie's Old Man in the original film), who died on February 25, 2006 at the age of 83.[90]

Stage adaptations [edit]

In 2000, a phase play accommodation of A Christmas Story was written past Philip Grecian.[91]

In November 2012, A Christmas Story: The Musical, based on the moving-picture show, opened on Broadway. Written by Benj Pasek and Justin Paul (music and lyrics) and Joseph Robinette (book), the musical opened to positive reviews.[92] The run ended on December thirty the aforementioned year.[93] The musical was directed by John Rando with choreography by Warren Carlyle and featured Dan Lauria as Jean Shepherd.[94] The musical received Tony Award nominations for All-time Musical, Best Volume of a Musical (Robinette), and Best Original Score (Music or Lyrics) Written for the Theatre.[95]

The musical was then adjusted for television every bit the iii hour A Christmas Story Live!, which aired on the Fox network in the United States on Dec 17, 2017.[96] Reviews were mixed; on Rotten Tomatoes, the production received a 46% rating based on xiii critics' reviews.[97]

Home media [edit]

  • Betamax (1984, 1988)
  • VHS (1984, 1988, 1993, 1994, 1999, 2000)
  • LaserDisc (1985): Pan and Scan[98]
  • LaserDisc (1993): Deluxe Letterbox Edition[99]
  • DVD (1997, reissued by Warner Home Video in 1999): fullscreen, includes the original theatrical trailer
  • DVD (2003) 20th Anniversary two-Disc Special Edition DVD (2003): Widescreen & Fullscreen; includes cast interviews, audio commentary, and featurettes.
  • Hd DVD (2006)[100]
  • Blu-ray (2006)[101]
  • DVD (2008) Ultimate Collector'south Edition: Metal tin can instance features the same 2003 two-disc special edition, but includes special memorabilia.[102]
  • Blu-ray (2008) Ultimate Collector's Edition: Metal can which features the same 2006 Blu-ray Disc, but also includes a strand of Leg Lamp Christmas lights.[103]
  • Blu-ray (2013) 30th Ceremony Edition: Steelbook with Blu-ray in 1080p (similar the previous Blu-ray and Hd-DVD) with a DTS-HD Master Sound mono track (whereas the previous releases had Dolby Digital mono), and more special features than the previous Blu-ray and HD-DVD.
  • Ultra HD Blu-ray (2022)

See also [edit]

  • List of Christmas films
  • Parker Family Saga (franchise)

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Sources [edit]

  • Gaines, Caseen (October 2013). A Christmas Story: Behind the Scenes of a Holiday Classic. ISBN9781770411401.

External links [edit]

  • Official DVD site
  • TBS.com's A Christmas Story website
  • A Christmas Story at IMDb
  • A Christmas Story at AllMovie
  • A Christmas Story at the TCM Movie Database
  • A Christmas Story at the American Picture Institute Catalog
  • A Christmas Story at Box Office Mojo
  • "The Man Who Told A Christmas Story: What I learned from Jean Shepherd" by Donald Fagen – Slate

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