From the VFArchive: How A Christmas Story blew away the cozy holiday-movie genre with a bracing blast of satire and realism—and became a quintessential Christmas tradition.
now belongs to a little 1983 sleeper, .
Looking back at the movie's ingredients—the comic genius of radio star Jean Shepherd, the low-budget magic of director Bob Clark, a cast that seemed like any American family—SAM KASHNER describes how a fluke project punctured the cozy sentimentality of Hollywood tradition
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