| A Christmas Story 2 | |
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| Directed by | Brian Levant |
| Written by | Nat Mauldin |
| Based on | In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash by Jean Shepherd |
| Produced by | Brian Levant Phillip B. Goldfine |
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| Narrated by | Nat Mauldin |
| Cinematography | Jan Kiesser |
| Edited by | Roger Bondelli |
| Music by | David Newman |
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| Distributed by | Warner Home Video |
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Running time | 86 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
A Christmas Story 2 is a 2012 American Christmas comedy film directed by Brian Levant and starring Daniel Stern and Braeden Lemasters.[1] The film is a direct sequel to the 1983 film A Christmas Story and ignores the events of the 1994 film My Summer Story.[citation needed] The film, set six years after the original, follows fifteen-year-old Ralphie as he wishes for a 1939 Mercury Eight convertible for Christmas, but crashes the car before he even owns it. Now, Ralphie and his friends, Flick and Schwartz, must find a way to raise enough money to fix the car before Christmas.
Although billed as an "official sequel" in the trailer, the film is not directly based on any of Jean Shepherd's writings nor is he involved due to his death in 1999. Instead, it has an original script by Nat Mauldin, who also narrates in place of the late Shepherd (the subplot of Ralphie and his friends finding jobs and getting fired was originally by Shepherd and had previously been included in Ollie Hopnoodle's Haven of Bliss).
The film was released straight to DVD on October 30, 2012, to mostly negative reviews.[2] A second direct sequel, which takes place 33 years after the events of the original film with most of its original cast returning, titled A Christmas Story Christmas, was released on November 17, 2022, on HBO Max and received generally better critical reception.[3][4]
- ^ Doty, Meriah (August 13, 2012). "'A Christmas Story 2′ goes straight to DVD". Yahoo Movies. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ Chaney, Jen (16 August 2012). "'A Christmas Story 2' actually happened?". The Washington Post. Retrieved 25 November 2012.
- ^ Kit, Borys (January 20, 2022). "'A Christmas Story' Sequel Set With Original Star Peter Billingsley". The Hollywood Reporter. Retrieved August 20, 2022.
- ^ D'Alessandro, Anthony (August 24, 2022). "HBO Max Dates Four Holiday Movies Including Sequel A Christmas Story Christmas". Deadline Hollywood. Penske Media Corporation. Retrieved September 1, 2022.