My favourite Christmas movie involves Ralphie himself and his quest to get a Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle with a compass in the stock. Oh yes.
A CHRISTMAS STORY
Ever since I first sa wthis movie I have been in love with the story. From the "Fa ra ra ra ra"'s to the starving kids in china and BE SURE TO DRINK YOUR OVALTINE, the movie is just filled with gold. The acting is fantastic and is made even better by the voice-over of an adult Ralphie moving the story along with interesting anecdotes like:
"My father worked in profanity the way other artists might work in oils or clay. It was his true medium, a master."
"In the heat of battle, my father wove a tapestry of obsenity that as far as we know, is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan."
"Some men are Baptists...others Catholics...My father was an Oldsmobile man."
At the time of me first watching the movie, my father actually was an Oldsmobile man. We had two big boats, one black and one burgundy. I also thought that the school in the movie looked just like Manchester, my elementary school. I honestly thought that Ralphie and Flick could very well be one of the kids in my class.
this is the school in the movie:
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