A Christmas Story

     

A Christmas Story1983

A Christmas Story is a 1983 film, set in the 1940s, about a boy who has to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift. more »


Ralphie as an Adult:
[narrating] Round One was over. (chuckles) Parents one, kids zip. I can feel the Christmas noose beginning to tighten. Maybe, what happened next, was inevitable.

Mother:
Ralphie? What would you like for Christmas?

Ralphie as an Adult:
[narrating] Horrified! I heard myself blurt it out!

Ralphie:
[talking fast] I want an official Red Ryder carbine action 200 shot range model air rifle. Ooooooohhhh...

Mother:
No. Shoot your eye out.

Ralphie as an Adult:
[narrating] Oh, no! It was a classic, mother BB-gun block. "You'll shoot your eye out!" That deadly phrase honored many times by hundreds of mothers was not surmountable by any means known to Kid-dom, but such as my mania, my desire for a Red Ryder carbine, that I immediately began to rebuild the dike.

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