A Christmas Story Christmas

As in A Christmas Story (1983), adult "Ralphie" Parker recalls a Christmas from his past, this one 1973 when he, his wife Sandy, and their two adolescent children Mark and Julie lived in suburban Chicago. Giving up his corporate job a year earlier, he, with agreement with Sandy, has until the end of the year to get some of his writing published, or else he will return to his corporate job. He has provided his epic two thousand page novel to sixteen publishers and has so far received fourteen unceremonious rejections. Things changed that year when Ralphie received news that his father, who was fondly called "the old man" and who was the king of celebrating Christmas, passed away on December 19th, the family summoned back to Ralphie's hometown of Hohman, Indiana to be with his mother. Unlike the maudlin scene they were expecting, Mrs. Parker, beyond asking Ralphie to write to write the obituary, wanted them to celebrate Christmas as the old man would've wanted. But Ralphie taking charge in place of the old man didn't turn out quite the way he expected as one disaster after another happened.