What Is The Big Deal About "A Christmas Story" (1983)?!?

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  1. Isaac K.

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    Yeah, I had a Farkus epiphany myself 20 years later when he was in Freddy Vs. Jason (still playing a teenager, strangely). It’s funny how tall he was in ACS and how short he seemed in Freddy. I don’t think he grew much in the intervening years.
     
  2. dewey02

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    We met Ian Petrella, the actor who played Randy at the Christmas Story house in Cleveland several years ago. But no epiphany, just a nice guy. :)
     
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  3. Isaac K.

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    What the heck was he doing there? Still refusing to eat that meatloaf?
     
  4. bamaaudio

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    It has childhood nostalgia appeal. Seems like everyone I know born in the 80s or later has always loved this film.
     
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  5. dewey02

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    :biglaugh::biglaugh::biglaugh:Good one!

    Perhaps he fell down and couldn't get back up without Ralphie's help? :D

    Actually, he did a deal with the museum to be on hand for a few days prior to Christmas that year. We got our photo taken with him and got to talk with him a bit. We had no idea he would be there prior to our visit. It was fun!
     
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  6. Matthew Tate

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    I thought he was a deputy in that movie
     
  7. Isaac K.

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    Maybe? I didn’t like that movie so I’m likely remembering it wrong.
     
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  8. Matthew Tate

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    he was around 30 when that movie was filmed
     
  9. Isaac K.

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    Steve McQueen was around the same age playing the teenager in The Blob. Same with PJ Soles in Halloween. Just saying that there’s precedent. I seem to recall him playing a burnout that lived in his van and not a cop, but either way I think the role was intended to be much younger than he actually was in real life.
     
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  10. Matthew Tate

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    i'll check it out again but I thought he was one of the teens older brothers now that you mention the burnout part. thought one of the teens had nightmares about freddy getting him and so they locked him up in the dream study group or whatever. could be forgetting as I haven't seen it in years. it was another person with brown hair who was the deputy though after I thought for a second
     
  11. Drifter

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    Such as a 34 year old Stockard Channing in Grease.
     
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  12. dprokopy

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    Billingsley, Vince Vaughn and Jon Favreau (who directed Elf) are friends from childhood. They all tend to pop up in each other's work a lot. Billingsley was also a producer on the first Iron Man movie.
     
  13. MikeInFla

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    They had him living at the house and giving tours one year.
     
  14. mmars982

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    Good thing he had a sense of humor about it.

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  15. Gord D

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    My favourite Christmas movie. Darren McGavin is brilliant in it.
     
  16. mmars982

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    Thank goodness they couldn't afford Jack Nicholson.
     
  17. guidedbyvoices

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    Wasn't that the ought the first version that had the second verse sung like "I-ah-hi-ah-hive been dreaming , of a white, CHRISTMASsssss", like Elvis and Otis later did the same way? I'd say it was influential early on
     
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  18. MikeInFla

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    Looks like the owners have bought the house next door, The Bumpus House and you can stay there overnight. The inside of the house was never shown in the movie. Also, Road Trip For Ralphie is now streaming free for Prime members on Amazon.

    Bumpus House | A Christmas Story House
     
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  19. MikeInFla

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    We watched Prep & Landing yesterday and my daughter caught something we didn't see before. She said "Look it's Ralphie!"

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  20. Bobby Buckshot

    Bobby Buckshot Heavy on the grease please

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    Don't bother me, I'm ahhh....I'm thinking.
     
  21. jason88cubs

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    had no idea he was in Fvz J

    wow
     
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  22. HGN2001

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    The movie itself is like a "major award"!

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  23. Vinyl Addict

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    "FRAGILE....must be Italian!"
     
  24. jimac51

    jimac51 A mythical beast.

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    As someone who listened to Shep instead of studying(leading to a life of retail and warehouse schlub),taking my first born to this at a second run theatre ,I was so overjoyed to hear Shep doing the narration and the story so lovingly done for film. Mom & Dad truly loved those kids-something I don't recall Shep ever talking about. Love-not in Shep's vocabulary. My kid was too young to understand why his old man was laughing behind tears when this was on screen. Now he just knows his old man is his old man. It is not only a holiday favorite,it is right up there with Lawrence of Arabia,The Great Escape,Casablanca, Godfather I & II,Cabaret and anything by Billy Wilder or Robert Altman. Excelsior,you fathead!
     
  25. MKHopkins

    MKHopkins Break out the Hats and Hooters

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    In 5 years of this thread the first reply is pretty much all that needed to be said IMO.

    I feel the same as OP about Rudolph and the multitude of other Rankin/Bass money grabs that followed but to each his own.
     
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