To watch “A Christmas Story” (1983) is to experience hazy snippets of a middle-class childhood in late-1940s Indiana but with a painfully snarky adult internal monologue (Jean Shepherd) in your ear. Teeming with nostalgia, the classic holiday film sets itself apart from other selections in the Christmas zeitgeist with its effervescent wit and striking.
To watch “A Christmas Story” (1983) is to experience hazy snippets of a middle-class childhood in late-1940s Indiana but with a painfully snarky adult internal monologue (Jean Shepherd) in your ear. Teeming with nostalgia, the classic holiday film sets itself apart from other selections in the Christmas zeitgeist with its effervescent wit and striking.