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Played by: Peter Billingsley
Distinguishing features: Blond mop of hair; glasses; tendency to daydream; deep and earnest desire to own an official Red Ryder air rifle.
Typical line: “No! No! I want an Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle!”
What to give him for Christmas: An Official Red Ryder Carbine-Action Two-Hundred-Shot Range Model Air Rifle. Weren’t you listening?
Here’s a tribute to human hope and endurance in the face of overwhelming opposition that rivals The Shawshank Redemption. Set in the 1940s, young dreamer Ralphie is set on one thing: getting an official Red Ryder, carbine action, two-hundred shot range model air rifle! for Christmas. Nothing else matters to him, and he day-dreams increasingly elaborate scenarios that will get him his prize. Sure, everyone tells him that “you’ll shoot your eye out” – Ralphie keeps believing, just as he waits breathlessly for the arrival of his Orphan Annie decoder ring in the conviction that he will soon understand the important and top-secret radio messages that accompany her radio show. Small, blond, bespecled and adorably devious when necessary, Ralphie is childhood nostalgia all wrapped up in a little bunny suit.
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