It's based on the semi-autobiographical short stories of radio personality Jean Shepherd. Many of the characters featured in A Christmas Story were inspired by real-life people and events from ...

We triple-dog-dare you to find a better depiction of the holidays. When “A Christmas Story” premiered in 1983, screenwriter Jean Shepherd pulled antidotes from his own life to create the Christmas ...

Peter Billingsley sits on Santa's lap in a scene from the film 'A Christmas Story', 1983.Archive Photos/Getty Images It made a modest $19 million at the box office, according to Box Office Mojo, and ...

Since its release in 1983, "A Christmas Story" has become a staple of the year-end holiday TV diet, joining such classics as "Scrooge" and "It's a Wonderful Life." Viewers have been charmed by this ...

I envision the day, and it isn’t too far off, when all a person will have to do to take care of his Christmas-card list is to send along his IBM Special Xmas Address Tape to a department store, and ...

Late on a weekday afternoon in November 1983, I sat amid the scattered handful of moviegoers in a multiplex on Manhattan’s Upper West Side, awaiting the opening frames of the new film “A Christmas ...