A Christmas Story
“A tribute to the original, traditional, one-hundred-percent, red-blooded, two-fisted, all-American Christmas.”
The comic mishaps and adventures of a young boy named Ralph, trying to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift for the 1940s.
Genres
Comedy, Family
Studio
Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer
Language
en
Status
Released
How A Christmas Story performed
Budget
$3.3M
Worldwide Gross
$20.7M
Gross Profit
$17.4M
Return
6.3× budget
Opening Wknd (est.)
$3M
Source: TMDB. Domestic/international split (~45/55, genre-typical) and the opening-weekend figure (32% of the domestic run, typical for Comedy) are MoviesRankd estimates. Profit is gross revenue minus production budget and excludes marketing — studios typically need ~2–2.5× budget to break even.
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Cast
Mother
Melinda Dillon
Mother
The Old Man
Darren McGavin
The Old Man
Ralphie
Peter Billingsley
Ralphie
Ralphie as an Adult (voice)
Jean Shepherd
Ralphie as an Adult (voice)
Randy
Ian Petrella
Randy
Flick
Scott Schwartz
Flick
Schwartz
R.D. Robb
Schwartz
Miss Shields
Tedde Moore
Miss Shields
Grover Dill
Yano Anaya
Grover Dill
Scut Farkus
Zack Ward
Scut Farkus
Santa Claus
Jeff Gillen
Santa Claus
Christmas Tree Man
Leslie Carlson
Christmas Tree Man
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