Movie: A Christmas Story (1983)

• Director: Bob Clark
• Release Date: 13 December 1984 (Hong Kong)
• Writers: Jean Shepherd (novel) Jean Shepherd (screenplay) …  
• Run Time: 94 min | USA:93 min (20th Anniversary)
• Country: USA , Canada
• Genre: Comedy , Family  

Tagline: A Tribute to the Original, Traditional, One-Hundred-Percent, Red-Blooded, Two-Fisted, All-American Christmas…  

Trivia: Jean Shepherd’s book “In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash”, which the film is partly based on, is a collection of short stories that Jean Shepherd wrote for “Playboy” magazine during the 1960s, including the stories about the tongue sticking to the flagpole, and eating Christmas dinner at a Chinese restaurant. The subplot of the mangy dogs constantly harassing The Old Man was taken from another of Mr. Shepherd’s short story collections, “Wanda Hickey’s Night Of Golden Memories and Other Disasters.” In that book, the character of Ralph is about 17 years old.
 

Goofs: Anachronisms: When the kids are gazing into the store window Christmas display, the Raggedy Ann and Andy dolls are Knickerbocker Toy Company dolls from the 1970s.
 

“Ralphie, a young boy growing up in the ’40′s, dreams of owning a Red Rider BB gun. He sets out to convince the world this is the perfect gift. But along the way, he runs into opposition from his parents, his teacher, and even good ‘ol Santa Claus himself. Written by Angela Anuszewski <axa143@psu.edu>”