![]() ![]() ![]() The Old Man thinks he's won an award and actually opens up a home-wrecking lamp fatale. Instead, Ralphie is constantly told he'll shoot his eye out, and then he more or less does. It's not packed with angelic hogwash like It's a Wonderful Life or romantic wish fulfillment like Love Actually. A Christmas Story resonates because it's real. Starting in the late '90s, the annual TNT/TBS tradition of airing the 1983 film on a 24-hour holiday loop propelled A Christmas Story from footnote to icon.īut this secondhand success story isn't all familiarity and no filling. ![]() Like The Shawshank Redemption before it, A Christmas Story was a quiet little movie that came and went at the box office and should have crashed into the dustbin of history if not for constant replays on basic cable. But White Christmas is fun to watch again no matter how many times you’ve seen it.Ĭall it resurrection by repetition. And this was my family’s movie, and I am a dancer. Any movie, almost, that you knew as a kid can pleasantly call forth bygone days. Christmas movies live in our hearts as much for the memories in which you and everyone you most loved in your early life is alive and well and maybe sitting around a decorated tree watching a film together or cooking or playing cards. The songs are gorgeous, the dancing fun, the tunes hip and swinging.Īnd it reminds me of something else. (At one point a hilarious drag rendition of the sisters’ act ensues, for reasons it is unnecessary to detail.) Every song and dance in this movie reminds you that they used to know how to do musicals to perfection. This is the kind of old Hollywood movie where you never question the believability of people breaking into dance at every chance: The Haynes sisters and Wallace and Davis decide to put on a show (!) to help the inn, so of course there is never no reason not to. Along with his partner, Deputy Billy Calhoun played by Dax Shepherd, they arrest Eric and lock him up.A smart and delightful Christmas musical, directed by Michael Curtiz, in which Phil Davis (Danny Kaye) and Bob Wallace (Bing Crosby) are two army buddies who fall for a sister act, the Hayneses, as they try to help out their former commanding officer’s failing Vermont inn, a ski resort that has no snow. Carl, played by Vincent D'Onofrio, is a lazy, jaded, borderline alcoholic who decides to fit Eric up. However, Eric gets stopped by the local town police officer Carl Hooker. Larry doesn't actually know anything so the two go their separate ways. On the promise of getting info about his Dad, he ends up in a bar with Larry, played by Tim Allen. In fact, El Camino Christmas is set in the baking heat of a small town where its residents are struggling through every day life.Įric Roth, played by Luke Grimes, has arrived in El Camino to find his father. It has none of those things!! Well, except for one short flutter of snow but we can forgive that. Always!Īnd that's why El Camino Christmas is so good. And the blossoming romance always ends up with the two leads always falling over in the snow. Who are nearly always dressed up like Victorians for some strange reason. There's always a hard-working single girl who inadvertently falls in love with the nice guy. There is a point where even I get thoroughly fed up with the same type of Christmas movie. ![]()
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