Actors: Peter Billingsley, Melinda
Dillon’ Darren McGavin
Rating: 9 out of 10, A recent addition
to my movie collection as I strive to own all of the favorite movies of my
past. Anyone who doesn’t like this can be officially labeled as a bona fide
Grinch. The film centers around Ralphie who longs to receive an air rifle as a
Christmas present despite the legion of adults who warn that he’ll put his eye
out. The story is told through the memory of the adult Ralphie with the
whimsical exaggerations of the nine year old version of himself. I loved
McGavin as the apoplectic father doing battle with the family furnace and the
pack of neighbor’s dogs. It’s an ode to the schmaltzy, yet bone deep truths of
family at Christmas and couldn’t we all benefit from seeing that.
MVP: Billingsley as the very focused
Ralphie
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