A Christmas Story. What is it about this movie?
What is it about this film that so captures the imagination of Clevelanders? And I don’t mean in the way it captures the imagination of overtired parents and children coming down off a candy cane buzz sitting in front of TBS on Christmas Eve.
I mean how Bob Clark’s now classic film, based on Jean Shepherd’s classic story, is now part of the very fabric of Cleveland.
It is true that some of the film’s most iconic scenes - the outside of Ralphie’s house and the backyard where he shoots his eye out, the Christmas parade and Ralphie’s tragic visit to Santa Claus (“Ho …. ho ….. ho.”) - were filmed here. But the bulk of the movie was shot in Toronto. And the story is set in fictional Hohman, Indiana.
Still. Doesn’t matter. A Christmas Story is Cleveland through and through. How did this happen? And why is it so?
‘You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.’ Dennis Tennant says it’s because the film reminds him of what it was like being a kid. “I still want a …
What is it about this film that so captures the imagination of Clevelanders? And I don’t mean in the way it captures the imagination of overtired parents and children coming down off a candy cane buzz sitting in front of TBS on Christmas Eve.
I mean how Bob Clark’s now classic film, based on Jean Shepherd’s classic story, is now part of the very fabric of Cleveland.
It is true that some of the film’s most iconic scenes - the outside of Ralphie’s house and the backyard where he shoots his eye out, the Christmas parade and Ralphie’s tragic visit to Santa Claus (“Ho …. ho ….. ho.”) - were filmed here. But the bulk of the movie was shot in Toronto. And the story is set in fictional Hohman, Indiana.
Still. Doesn’t matter. A Christmas Story is Cleveland through and through. How did this happen? And why is it so?
‘You’ll shoot your eye out, kid.’ Dennis Tennant says it’s because the film reminds him of what it was like being a kid. “I still want a …