{"id":31218,"date":"2022-12-19T07:00:00","date_gmt":"2022-12-19T12:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31218"},"modified":"2022-12-19T09:22:04","modified_gmt":"2022-12-19T14:22:04","slug":"a-christmas-story-christmas-2022-starring-peter-billingsley-z-view","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/?p=31218","title":{"rendered":"&#8220;A Christmas Story Christmas&#8221; (2022) starring Peter Billingsley \/ Z-View"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z121922zview_christmasstorychristmas.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"741\" \/><\/p>\n<p><em><strong>A Christmas Story Christmas <\/strong><\/em>(2022)<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Director:\u00a0 <strong>Clay Kaytis<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Screenplay: <strong>Nick Schenk, Clay Kaytis <\/strong>based on a story by <strong>Nick Schenk, Peter Billingsley <\/strong>based on characters created by<strong> Jean Shepherd<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Stars: <strong>Peter Billingsley, Erinn Hayes, Julie Hagerty, Scott Schwartz, R.D. Robb <\/strong>and <strong>Zack Ward<\/strong><strong><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Tagline: <em>Ralphie comes home.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><strong>The Plot<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s 33 years after the events that took place in<em> A Christmas Story<\/em>.\u00a0 Ralphie (Billingsley), his wife (Hayes) and their two children are returning to Ralphie&#8217;s childhood home for Christmas.\u00a0 Although his father recently passed, Ralphie&#8217;s mother is still alive.\u00a0 Ralphie wants to give his entire family a memorable holiday, the type of Christmas his old man would have pulled together.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">The pressure on Ralphie is increased because he&#8217;s given himself until the end of the year to become a published author.\u00a0 Time is running out.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Not a lot in the old neighborhood has changed.\u00a0 Ralphie&#8217;s old pals, Flick and Schwartz are still around.\u00a0 So is their old nemesis, Scut Farkus!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">All seems to be on track until something unforeseen happens and then all bets are off.\u00a0 Will Ralphie&#8217;s family Christmas come together?\u00a0 Will Ralphie become a published author?\u00a0 Is Farkus still a creep?\u00a0 All will be known by Christmas Day!<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><strong>Thoughts (beware of spoilers)\u2026<\/strong><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">It&#8217;s hard to catch lightening in a bottle twice.\u00a0 <em>A Christmas Story<\/em> is such a beloved classic, that to try and replicate it, is a tall order.\u00a0 While <em>A Christmas Story Christmas<\/em> doesn&#8217;t come near the bar set by the original, it does get a lot of mileage out of bringing back so many members of the original cast.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">Returning cast members include Peter Billingsley (Ralphie), Scott Schwartz (Flick), R.D. Robb (Schwartz) and Zack Ward (Farkus).\u00a0 Darren McGavin who played Ralphie&#8217;s father had died and incorporating his passing into the story worked.\u00a0 Melinda Dillon played Ralphie&#8217;s mom, but she didn&#8217;t return for this story.\u00a0 Julie Hagerty was a nice choice to replace her.\u00a0 Erinn Hayes, who played Ralphie&#8217;s wife was really good.\u00a0 I&#8217;m surprised we don&#8217;t see more from her.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\">If you enjoyed <em>A Christmas Story<\/em> and aren&#8217;t expecting another classic, then give <em>A Christmas Story Christmas<\/em> a shot,\u00a0 It&#8217;s better than a bunny suit.<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><em style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\"><strong>A Christmas Story Christmas <\/strong><\/em><span style=\"color: var(--text-color); font-family: var(--text-font); font-size: inherit;\">earns 3 of 5 stars.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/logo\/zview_c.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"100\" \/><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: justify;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter\" src=\"http:\/\/stallonezone.com\/zone\/2022\/z121922zview_christmasstorychristmas2.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"500\" height=\"184\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A Christmas Story Christmas (2022) Director:\u00a0 Clay Kaytis Screenplay: Nick Schenk, Clay Kaytis based on a story by Nick Schenk,<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":912,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[63,54,74],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-31218","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-humor","category-movies","category-z-view"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31218","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/912"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=31218"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31218\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":31314,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/31218\/revisions\/31314"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=31218"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=31218"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/craigzablo.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=31218"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}