Film

A Christmas Story 1983

Directed by Bob Clark

  • Comedy, Family
  • 93 min
  • PG

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

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.

ComedyFamilybased on novel or bookholidaynostalgiayoung boysnowchinese restauranttonguenostalgicchristmas tree dealermall santachristmas1940s

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