"You’ll shoot your eye out!"
December 18, 2007 11:14 am kids movies
Out of all the Christmas movies that mob the airways each holiday season, “A Christmas Story” has to be the most painful.
There are threats of gun play, tongue mutilation and soap scrubbing. Public humiliation and childhood ripoffs. Adults – including Santa and the Old Man who treasures his “major award” (read: leg lamp) – are clueless. Kids, especially the hapless Ralphie, are helpless.
All this, and a PG rating.
Based on the book “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash” by radio personality Jean Shepherd, “A Christmas Carol” follows one kid’s struggles to get a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas despite multiple warnings that “You’ll shoot your eye out.”
It’s such a clever, spot-on send-up of the 1940s that it’s difficult to remember this movie was made in 1983.
Local audiences can enjoy this so-called “Tribute to the Original, Traditional, One-Hundred-Percent, Red-Blooded, Two-Fisted, All-American Christmas” tonight.
“A Christmas Carol” will be screened at 7:30 p.m. tonight at the Fremont Theatre, 1025 Monterey St. in San Luis Obispo. Arrive a half-hour early for trivia and prizes.
Tickets are $7.50.
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Next at the Fremont is the classic musical “West Side Story.” That movie will be screened on Tuesday, Jan. 15.
– Sarah L.
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