How long has been since you last saw Ralphie wish and wish and wish for a Red Ryder BB gun on the big screen?
Here's your chance to see it for the first time or re-live it 7 p.m. tonight, Nov. 20, at the Suffolk Center for Cultural Arts, 110 W. Finney Ave., for $5.
Call 923-2900 for tickets and details.
If you need a reason to go see it, read the first two paragraphs of Roger Ebert's 2000 review of the 1983 classic:
"One of the details that "A Christmas Story" gets right is the threat of having your mouth washed out with Lifebouy soap. Not any soap. Lifebouy. Never Ivory or Palmolive. Lifebouy, which apparently contained an ingredient able to nullify bad language. The only other soap ever mentioned for this task was Lava, but that was the nuclear weapon of mouth-washing soaps, so powerful it was used for words we still didn't even know.
There are many small but perfect moments in "A Christmas Story," and one of the best comes after the Lifebouy is finally removed from Ralphie's mouth and he is sent off to bed. His mother studies the bar, thinks for a moment, and then sticks it in her own mouth, just to see what it tastes like. Moments like that are why some people watch "A Christmas Story" every holiday season. There is a real knowledge of human nature beneath the comedy."
Read the rest of Eberts' review.
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