An adult Ralphie Parker narrates several humorous stories about his teen years in an Indiana steel town.
Acting
Young Matt Dillon's eyebrow game is already elite.
Production
Somehow looks cheaper than the original despite being eight years newer.
Director
Richard Bartlett
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
This aired on PBS's American Playhouse, which explains the public television sheen and complete lack of marketing. Even Jean Shepherd seemed surprised it happened.
The 1930s steel town setting accidentally documents a vanishing American archetype—the confident industrial working class—just as deindustrialization was gutting the real Indiana.
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