A Christmas Story DVD   Warner Bros

The Christmas spirit isn't served up with more heartfelt warmth or observant hilarity than in this beloved adaptation of Jean Shepherd's holiday story. In 1940's Indiana, nine-year old Ralphie (Peter Billingley) dreams of his ideal Christmas gift: a genuine Red Ryder 200-shot Carbine Action Air rifle. But when gruff dad (Darren McGavin) and doting mum (Melinda Dillon) regularly respond with "You'll shoot your eye out!" Ralphie mounts a full-scale, hint-dropping, Santa-begging campaign. He also endures all kinds of childhood calamities from snowsuit paralysis to the yellow-eyed Scotty Farkus affair to the dreaded tongue-on-a-frozen-flagpole gambit. We triple-dog-dare you to unwrap a more welcome Yuletide classic!