How A Christmas Story Went from Low-Budget Fluke to an American Tradit
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The cinematic season once ruled by Irving Berlin, Charles Dickens, and It’s a Wonderful Life now belongs to a little 1983 sleeper of a movie, A Christmas Story. A look back at how Bob Clark’s new holiday classic upended the sentimental old order by showing something every family could recognize.
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How A Christmas Story Went from Low-Budget Fluke to an American