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When Jonathan's father, who is a Baptist preacher, moves to Detroit, he has to learn to adjust to a new town. [1] [2] Jonathan helps his father get the church ready for Christmas and when ice puts a hole in the wall, he goes out with his father to buy a tapestry to cover the hole with the last of their money. [1]
A Christmas Story is a 1983 Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on the 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd, with some elements from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters.
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Another short story, "The Grandstand Passion Play of Delbert and the Bumpus Hounds", was drawn from Shepherd's second book of them, Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories. [22] The five short stories that were used as the basis for A Christmas Story were collected under the title A Christmas Story and published as a stand-alone book in 2003. [23]
From “You’ll shoot your eye out,” to “It’s a major award” when the Old Man wins his infamous leg lamp, this movie is part many families' holiday traditions—so much that a sequel, A ...
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In December 1973, 33 years after A Christmas Story, 42-year-old Ralph "Ralphie" Parker lives in Chicago with his wife, Sandy, and two children, Mark and Julie. Ralph has been taking the year off from his job to write his first novel, but its excessive length leads multiple publishers to reject it. Mrs. Parker calls to tell Ralph that his father, "the Old Man", has died, and the grief-stricken ...