Oh, I do love A Christmas Story, but only because of the father. Darren McGavin was perfectly cast and brilliantly funny in that role, IMO. I &hearts him.
Also I love Meet Me in St. Louis, Funny Farm, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. And The Family Stone is a movie I can't not watch every time it's on TV. For some reason I love Christmas movies about screwed up families that still love each other deeply.
I die laughing every time he's freaking out about the broken lamp and tells the wife, "Not a finger!" as he leaves the house to buy glue. And his fake swearing through the furnace vent gets me every time.
He's usually great in everything I've seen him in.
For whatever reason, I always forget about Meet Me in St. Louis. Which is slightly ridiculous since the standard "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" comes from that movie.
It also has a great Halloween sequence. I wonder when we Americans switched over from throwing flour in the face of strangers to begging them for candy? :p
Well, it does cover every season, so it's technically not a Christmas movie, but the Christmas part stands out, so I always think of it as... yeah.
Oh I've always wondered the same thing about the Halloween traditions. I can't fathom letting kids steal stuff from yards and starting huge bonfires in the streets these days. And the flour thing. (Which, btw, my husband does a mean Tootie impression when she says, "I got my own flour." Every time he bakes, I have to hear it. lol) I'm pretty sure people would prefer the candy tradition over all that, given the choice. lol
Also I love Meet Me in St. Louis, Funny Farm, and National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation. And The Family Stone is a movie I can't not watch every time it's on TV. For some reason I love Christmas movies about screwed up families that still love each other deeply.
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I'd have to agree with that, he was the only character I could stand in that movie. : )
He's usually great in everything I've seen him in.
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He's usually great in everything I've seen him in.
I agree.
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It also has a great Halloween sequence. I wonder when we Americans switched over from throwing flour in the face of strangers to begging them for candy? :p
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Oh I've always wondered the same thing about the Halloween traditions. I can't fathom letting kids steal stuff from yards and starting huge bonfires in the streets these days. And the flour thing. (Which, btw, my husband does a mean Tootie impression when she says, "I got my own flour." Every time he bakes, I have to hear it. lol) I'm pretty sure people would prefer the candy tradition over all that, given the choice. lol
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