With the week before Christmas you know I had to bring out the Big Guns!! Now this CLASSIC and TIMELESS movie for today's Rewind Wednesday-Holiday edition is that of A Christmas Story.
"A Tribute to the Original, Traditional, One-Hundred-Percent, Red-Blooded, Two-Fisted, All-American Christmas..."
A Christmas Story is a 1983 film based on the short stories and semi-fictional anecdotes of author and raconteur Jean Shepherd, which also includes material from his books In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories. The movie takes place in the early 1940's in the fictional northern Indiana town of Hulman (based on real-life Hammond, IN). 9-year-old Ralph "Ralphie" Parker (Peter Billingsley) wants only one thing for Christmas – "an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle (BB Gun) with a compass in the stock, and this thing which tells time."
This is one of those movies that you gotta watch every year just to get your funny bone stirring. Its just that timeless!! The character of Ralphie can be seen even in today's society with that one little needy kid who just wants one thing for Christmas, and hoping they get it. With this film the critics pretty much had favorable comments to say about the film. Famed critic Roger Ebert would proclaim it "Funny and satirical...a sort of Norman Rockwell crossed with MAD magazine. On December 24, 2007, AOL ranked the film their #1 Christmas movie of all time.
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 film shown twelve consecutive times beginning at 7 or 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve and ending Christmas Day.In 2007, new all-time ratings records were set, with the highest single showing (8 p.m. Christmas Eve) drawing 4.4 million viewers. In 2007 the marathon continued, and the original tradition was revived. In 2008, the 24-hour marathon will continue, on TBS, for the twelveth overall year, starting at 8 p.m. eastern on Christmas Eve.
Here's one of my favorite scene's:
"A Tribute to the Original, Traditional, One-Hundred-Percent, Red-Blooded, Two-Fisted, All-American Christmas..."
A Christmas Story is a 1983 film based on the short stories and semi-fictional anecdotes of author and raconteur Jean Shepherd, which also includes material from his books In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash and Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories. The movie takes place in the early 1940's in the fictional northern Indiana town of Hulman (based on real-life Hammond, IN). 9-year-old Ralph "Ralphie" Parker (Peter Billingsley) wants only one thing for Christmas – "an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model air rifle (BB Gun) with a compass in the stock, and this thing which tells time."
This is one of those movies that you gotta watch every year just to get your funny bone stirring. Its just that timeless!! The character of Ralphie can be seen even in today's society with that one little needy kid who just wants one thing for Christmas, and hoping they get it. With this film the critics pretty much had favorable comments to say about the film. Famed critic Roger Ebert would proclaim it "Funny and satirical...a sort of Norman Rockwell crossed with MAD magazine. On December 24, 2007, AOL ranked the film their #1 Christmas movie of all time.
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 film shown twelve consecutive times beginning at 7 or 8 p.m. on Christmas Eve and ending Christmas Day.In 2007, new all-time ratings records were set, with the highest single showing (8 p.m. Christmas Eve) drawing 4.4 million viewers. In 2007 the marathon continued, and the original tradition was revived. In 2008, the 24-hour marathon will continue, on TBS, for the twelveth overall year, starting at 8 p.m. eastern on Christmas Eve.
Here's one of my favorite scene's:
HAPPY HOLIDAYS!!
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