On the way back, Ralphie's car breaks down again and Ralphie accidentally hits Julie in the eye during an impromptu snowball fight, which requires a trip to the emergency room and a temporary eyepatch. While leaving the house to go ice skating, Sandy slips and sprains her ankle.Īs Christmas Eve approaches, the family goes to Higbee's, where Ralphie miraculously buys everything Mark and Julie asked for while their children wait in line to see Santa.

Ralphie reunites with Flick, who now owns his father's old tavern, and Schwartz, who still lives with his mother and has run up a large tab at Flick's. Ralphie's children befriend one of the Bumpus kids next door and are bullied by two children on a snowmobile. She gives Ralphie two tasks: write his father's obituary and take up his mantle of making Christmas special for the family. Parker calls to tell Ralphie that his father, 'the Old Man', has died, and the grief-stricken family makes its way to Hohman, Indiana, to be with her. Ralphie has been taking the year off from his job to write his first novel, but its excessive length leads multiple publishers to reject it. In December 1973, 33 years after the events of A Christmas Story, Ralphie Parker lives in Chicago with his wife Sandy and two children, Mark and Julie. In the film, after the Old Man dies, Ralphie takes his family to his childhood home, reuniting with his mom and old friends, while being tasked to deliver a memorable Christmas.Ī Christmas Story Christmas was released in the United States on November 17, 2022, on HBO Max.

Erinn Hayes, River Drosche, and Julianna Layne play Ralphie's wife and kids, with Julie Hagerty (replacing Melinda Dillon from the original film) as Mrs. Robb, Zack Ward, and Yano Anaya returning as Randy Parker, Flick, Schwartz, Scut Farkus, and Grover Dill, respectively. Billingsley reprises his role as Ralphie Parker alongside Ian Petrella, Scott Schwartz, R. The film was produced by Billingsley and Vince Vaughn along with Cale Boyter, Jay Ashenfelter, Marc Toberoff and Irwin Zwilling. It is a legacy sequel to A Christmas Story (1983) and is the eighth installment in the Parker Family Saga franchise, while ignoring the events of My Summer Story (1994) and A Christmas Story 2 (2012). A Christmas Story Christmas is a 2022 American Christmas comedy film directed by Clay Kaytis with a script he co-wrote with Nick Schenk, from an original story co-written by Schenk and Peter Billingsley.

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