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Actors:	Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Ian Petrella, Scott Schwartz
Format:	Closed-captioned, Color, Full Screen, NTSC
Director:	Bob Clark
Release Date:	2007-11-01
Aspect Ratio:	1.66:1
Audience Rating:	PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Category:	DVD
Label/Manufacturer:	Warner Home Video
UPC:	012569796287

Product Description

Director Bob Clark's charming, touching, and very funny adaptation of humorist Jean Shepherd's nostalgic, autobiographical Yuletide novel, In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash, remains essential holiday family viewing. Narrated by a man (Shepherd) recalling his childhood, the film looks back at the compulsive efforts of 7-year-old Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) as he tries every means possible to acquire his dream Christmas gift--a Daisy-brand Red Ryder repeating BB carbine with a compass mounted in the stock. Problem is, he lives in a Norman Rockwell-esque Midwestern town in the 1940s, where his parents, teachers, and even Santa Claus all warn Ralphie that "he'll shoot his eye out." Episodic in nature and seen entirely through the eyes of a child, the film offers a wonderful look at the day-to-day eccentricities that grew out of this conservative period. More interestingly, it cleverly captures childhood urgency, where even the most trivial fantasies or objects become immediate life-or-death necessities. While countless family Christmas movies serve up clichéd situations suffocating with preachy sermons, Clark's acute eye for detail and odd mixture of warmth, satire, and quirky humor are the reasons why so many viewers have rediscovered this after it initially bombed in the theaters. Sentimental without being syrupy, it's a true rarity: a holiday movie that adults and children can enjoy equally, for completely different reasons and regardless of the season. --Dave McCoy

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on 2010-07-26

Great movie....love it, brings back such memories from the good old days. Everyone should watch it. Never gets old and it is entertaining enough to watch it over and over again

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on 2010-07-21

I greatly enjoyed the fast service and great pricing. I am very happy to own this timeless classic.

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on 2010-05-02

Decorating Christmas cookies with out watching this movie just cannot happen! So funny and I love it!!!

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on 2010-02-18

We can't make it through the holidays without watching A Christmas Story once or twice...it's a modern classic. Gene Shepherd was a sublimely funny story teller and his talent lives on in the movie version of his wonderful musings.

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on 2010-02-14

This is a fantastic Christmas DVD! I have loved this film since it first was produced on a DVD. But I have enjoyed it even more since it has been reproduced on a blu-ray mode. I would reco9mmend this dvd to anyone who loves the old fashion memories of Christmas and children growing up!

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