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A Christmas Story
List Price: $14.98 Our Price:
VHS Tape - 23 December, 1993
MGM (Video & DVD)
PG (Parental Guidance Suggested)
Availability: This item is currently not available.
Features: - Closed-captioned
- Color
- HiFi Sound
- NTSC
Related Areas: Christmas / Chanukkah, Comedies, Movie |
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| VHS Tape 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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A true Chrismas classic! Can you name any other movie that gets its own 24 hour marathon on television every year? I know I can't, and that in itself is one of many testaments as to just how great this movie really is. It's a great holiday film that is just lewd enough to appeal to the adult population, but not so dirty that it couldn't be viewed by the whole family. Loads of great comedy that can be appreciated by all ages in a neat PG rated package.
I think enough has been said about the film already in all the other reviews, so I'll spare you the detailed plot description. I'll just say it's simply the story of a kid with a Christmas present wish and his mission to achieve it, a tale we can all relate to at one time or another. The thing that makes the movie shine is the way it's presented and the many situations contained that we can all relate to. Performances are great all around, especially for a film with so many child actors, and especially for Ralphie's parents.
A Christmas Story has only been around for about 25 years now, and it has already achieved the status of the quintessential Christmas movie. It already ranks right up there with A Miracle on 3th Street and A Christmas Tale, an amazing feat that perhaps only Home Alone shares. I'd recommend this movie to anybody in the world really. It can be appreciated by all.
A Christmas Story Our all time favorite Christmas movie, so glad we have added it to our Christmas movie collection.
Terrible release of this beloved yet flawed classic As noted in a few other reviews, the transfer on the 2000 edition of A Christmas Story is hideous.
I can't imagine how it could have been approved for release.
There is a considerable amount of "wobble" in the image, as if watching a well-worn VHS tape.
Hopefully the new 2007 release has corrected these issues.
I paid $5 or under for this one, and I regret it 99%.
Aside from the dated, overly silly moments, this version has further sullied my memories of this film with it's horrid low-resolution cover art (which it appears they have essentially used again for the new 2007 version).
It almost put my eye out. |
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