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A Christmas Story

A Christmas Story

7,2 /10 (1,454 Votes)
1983 EN 93 min

Overview

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.

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Release date

18/11/1983

Votes

1,454

Popularity

4.4

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

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Status

Released

Language

EN

Runtime

93 min

Budget

$3,300,000

Revenue

$20,700,000

Website

warnerbros.com

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Peter McGinn

Peter McGinn

2020-12-24

⭐ 10

Okay, I know this isn’t a perfect movie, perhaps not close to it. We just watched it again and I teasingly pointed out small plot or action gaffes here or there. But for me it is my all time favorite Christmas movie. Partly I suppose because it feeds into my memories of growing up in a snowy, cold small town, though this predates my childhood by several years. And rarely do I feel like an ensemble cast made up of both adult and child actors do so well together. The Parkers, husband and wife, have their duel over the “major award,” and at times their sensibilities reside on different planets…

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Filipe Manuel Neto

Filipe Manuel Neto

2024-01-23

⭐ 8

**Without no doubt, a good film, where things work very well in a very simple way.** When we talk about Christmas-themed films, the choice is so huge that the difficult part has been showing things that are substantially different or original. What this film does is simply tell us a good story… and it works like that! It's not a film that enchants us, and I, personally, hardly see myself seeing it again. But the fact is that it manages to be much better than a lot of the rubbish that appears around Christmas. The script is simple and so direct that it can be summed up in one sentence: it…

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