This article explores the impact of the 1983 holiday film A Christmas Story, arguing that it ushered in a new type of Christmas movie. Unlike the traditional saccharine portrayals, A Christmas Story embraced the realities of the holiday season, including the commercialism, disappointments, and bad luck that often accompany it. It provided a refreshing blend of satire and realism, making it a timeless classic.
When we think of pre-1983 holiday movies , we think of plum puddings like Charles Dickens’s A Christmas Carol ; the 1942 Irving Berlin musical Holiday Inn and its 1954 cousin, White Christmas; the rather dark 1946 Frank Capra drama starring James Stewart, It’s a Wonderful Life; Miracle on 34th Street the following year—saccharine despite the bracing skepticism of an eight-year-old Natalie Wood, who refuses to believe in Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle.
” Shepherd does make a cameo appearance in the movie, Hitchcock-like, as a stern older man scolding Ralphie for breaking into the long line to see Santa at Higbees department store. Dupont first met Clark as the English producer on a Sherlock Holmes mystery, Murder by Decree, with Christopher Plummer and James Mason, which Clark was directing.
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