A Christmas Story

1983 "A tribute to the original, traditional, one-hundred-percent, red-blooded, two-fisted, all-American Christmas."

A Christmas Story

7.9 | 1h33m | PG | en | Comedy

The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.

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Released: November. 18,1983 | Released Producted By: Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer , Country: United States of America Budget: 0 Revenue: 0 Official Website: http://warnerbros.com/movies/christmas-story

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The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.

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Comedy , Family

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Cast

Melinda Dillon , Darren McGavin , Peter Billingsley , Jean Shepherd , Ian Petrella , Scott Schwartz

Director

Gavin Mitchell

Producted By

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer

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Melinda Dillon

as Mother

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Peter Billingsley

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Ian Petrella

as Randy

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Scott Schwartz

as Flick

Gavin Mitchell

Art Direction

Carmi Gallo

Assistant Art Director

Reuben Freed

Production Design

J. Tracy Budd

Property Master

Mark S. Freeborn

Set Decoration

Gordon Langevin

Assistant Camera

Harald Ortenburger

Camera Operator

Reginald H. Morris

Director of Photography

Ron Gillham

Key Grip

Shin Sugino

Still Photographer

Mary E. McLeod

Costume Design

James D. Brown

Hairstylist

Ken Brooke

Makeup Artist

Linda Kemp

Wardrobe Supervisor

Kenneth Heeley-Ray

Post Production Supervisor

Martin Malivoire

Special Effects

Janice Kaye

Unit Publicist

Bob Clark

Director

Ken Goch

First Assistant Director

Blanche McDermaid

Script Supervisor

A Christmas Story Audience Reviews

AboveDeepBuggy Some things I liked some I did not.

Comwayon A Disappointing Continuation

Keeley Coleman The thing I enjoyed most about the film is the fact that it doesn't shy away from being a super-sized-cliche;

Ariella Broughton It is neither dumb nor smart enough to be fun, and spends way too much time with its boring human characters.

areatw While dozens of Christmas films roll off the production line every year, very few manage to capture the festive season, and the audience's hearts, quite like 'A Christmas Story'. This 80s classic is a real crowd-pleaser, a film that can be enjoyed by anyone regardless of age or film taste, which explains its continued popularity with TV networks.Ralphie is a character we can all relate to, because we were all that kid a Christmas once. The film gets his character spot on and the events that take place in the film will bring back a lot of memories for the average viewer. For such a shallow storyline the film provides so much enjoyment and, although there are other films I would rather watch over the festive season than this one, it remains a classic to this day and will always be up there as one of the Christmas greats.

JLRVancouver Charming Christmas tale directed by Bob Clark of "Porkies" (1981) fame (!) about a young boy and his dream of finding a Red Ryder BB gun under the tree on Christmas morning. Shot as an autobiographical 'memory' film, with a voiceover by Jean Shepherd, the story recounts young Ralphie's (Peter Billingsley) 9th Christmas, sometime around 1940. The stories are fun, mostly nice with just a touch of naughty, and include vignettes about the last days of school before holidays, bullies, tongues and cold flagpoles, visiting the department store Santa, and of course, Christmas morning. Peter Billingsley is excellent as Ralphie and the rest of the cast, mostly portraying his family and friends, are fine although Melinda Dillon does not look much like a WWII-era mother. A fun movie, considered a seasonal classic by some, worth watching once, and maybe even once a year.

rmhurst Great nostalgia! I lived much of it. Born in 1938 and raised in Indiana, the film seemed autobiographical. Well done!

Prismark10 A Christmas Story has become a festive classic in North America with a lot of subsequent films trying to replicate its success.It follows the nostalgic tinged tale of young Ralphie (as told by his adult self) a schoolboy in 1940s America who wants a BB gun for Christmas which his mum tells him will shoot his eye out. We see Ralphie getting up to pranks with his fellow classmates, being bullied by a rough kid, going to see Santa at the department store and of course his life with his parents and younger brother with tales of his dad winning a prize of a stockinged leg which he uses as a lamp.Darren McGavin looks too old to be their dad. Peter Billingsley brings a lot of charm as the precocious bespectacled Ralphie for whom life never quite turns out as he imagined in his head such as trying to lay hints of what he would like for Christmas.It is whimsical and fun but I would not call it a Christmas classic.