It Runs in the Family (1994) on Netflix
Summer 1941 in the Parker household. Ralphie wants a top that can beat the school bully's, his mother collects celebrity dishes at the Orpheum, and his father feuds with the hillbilly Bumpuses.
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Plot summary
In the summer of 1941, ten-year-old Ralphie Parker and his parents each have a separate project. At school, Ralphie plays Kill, a game in which boys knock each other's tops out of a chalk circle, and his tops keep losing to the one owned by Lug Ditka, the head bully. His mother goes to the Orpheum Theatre for dish night, where the manager Leopold Doppler hands out pieces of a celebrity china set, and she wants the whole collection. His father is at war with the Bumpuses, the hillbilly family next door, whose forty-three Bloodhounds and new outhouse have exhausted his patience. Father and son also escape on fishing trips that rarely land anything.
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Did you know?!Facts and trivia about It Runs in the Family (1994)
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- Jean Shepherd admitted making the sequel mainly as a money-making enterprise: after seeing the royalties from A Christmas Story telecasts and re-releases next to what his television productions earned, he walked away from television and vowed to work almost exclusively on films.
- Because the cast of A Christmas Story had aged out of their roles, the sequel was entirely recast, with only Tedde Moore returning as Miss Shields, the teacher of Ralphie Parker, played this time by Kieran Culkin.
- The shoot recruited Cleveland residents as extras to populate the film's 1940s period scenes, and the Great Lakes Exposition was recreated at the Key Tower plaza and the Palace Theatre.
