A Christmas Story
A tribute to the original, traditional, one-hundred-percent, red-blooded, two-fisted, all-American Christmas.
B.gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.
- Director
- Bob Clark
- Signature
- Craft · Wonder · Humour
- Worldwide
- $21M
Who's in it
Cast
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Movie DNA
How A Christmas Story actually feels to watch, measured on the twelve traits our editors track across every Nutevio title.
Story overview
What It's About
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The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.
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The numbers
Box Office & Release
A Christmas Story returned 6.3× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $3M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
- —
- Worldwide gross
- $21M
- Release date
- Nov 18, 1983
- Runtime
- 1h 33m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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