A Christmas Story Widescreen Two-Disc Special Edition 1983 Starring Peter Billingsley Darren McGavin

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A Christmas Story (Full Screen Edition)

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Format: Full Screen
Director: Bob Clark
Publisher: Warner Home Video
Release Date: September 2000
UPC: 012569504424
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Christmas Story is on its way to becoming an annual holiday classic, one to keep on the shelf with It's a Wonderful Life, the puppet-animated Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, and A Charlie Brown Christmas. It may have been directed by Bob Clark (responsible for the Porky's pictures), but it's based on the childhood memoirs of humorist Jean Shepherd (from his hilarious book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash). And it is Shepherd's wry, deadly accurate, and gently nostalgic comic sensibility that shines through in this kid's-eye view of an all-American Christmas in the 1940s. All little Ralphie (Peter Billingsley) wants under the tree on Christmas morning is a Daisy Brand Red-Ryder BB rifle. He not only wants it, he's consumed with an aching desire for it. Unfortunately, his mother (Melinda Dillon) repeatedly crushes his dreams with the familiar, harsh mantra: "You'll shoot your eye out!" Among the movie's highlights are a surrealistic visit with little brother Randy to a department store Santa, and the childlike mixture of delight, pride, and awe with which Ralphie's dad (Darren McGavin) takes possession of a spectacularly gaudy prize he's won in a radio contest. McGavin should have won an award for his splendid comic work as a middle-aged-kid-turned-patriarch who alternates between grown-up temper tantrums and unabashed juvenile joy.

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Christmas Day Classic	Customer Rating:
It never fails every Christmas it's on 24 hours but we still had to have the movie. Just full of good old fashioned laughs. A lot of the commentary info afterwards was great to hear and learn bits and pieces about the movie. Guess what we'll be watching 12/25!

Love this MOVIE	Customer Rating:
This film never gets old no matter how old I get. It's completely classic.

A Christmas Story still a hit

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For anyone looking for some classic holiday enjoyment, A Christmas Story is the epitomy of the traditional Christmas. Told from the point of view of young boy Ralphie, the story covers his desperate longing for the mother of all Xmas gifts, the Red Rider carbine action single shot air rifle.

As with any special edition DVD, there are a ton of extras. Some enjoy them; I am only interested in the movie itself.

Anytime one is in the mood for some good family entertainment A Christmas Story delivers the humor, realism, and trials of a classic Xmas tale.

Classic Christmas movie, less than classic picture quality.

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I purchased this movie for my family to watch at Christmas time. We had been amassing a good sized HD-DVD collection and we enjoyed this movie and didn't own it yet, so I purchased the High Def version. Unfortunately, the graininess of the movie doesn't lend itself to HD so well. I can rate the movie 5 stars, but the high def part is what this review is about. IMAX blue planet is the only high def movie I've seen that looks worse. Time of original release doesn't seem to be a factor in Picture Quality though, as Casablanca is one of the clearest pictures I have seen from a high definition movie.

Great Family Movie	Customer Rating:
This movie in my opinion is the best family Christmas story ever made, it is a story that shows a lot of family love told in a manner that is heart warming. I highly recommend it!