![]() Shawn Macdonald as Higbee's Assistant Manager.Nat Mauldin as Ralph Parker/the Narrator.Braeden Lemasters as Ralph "Ralphie" Parker. ![]() In the end, he does get the car he wants for Christmas and the girlfriend he wants to go with it. He winds up still off the hook with the owner of the dealership. While on the way to the dealer, Ralphie decides to donate a chunk for a less fortunate family. Ralphie does get his job back after some begging and pleading, but by Christmas Eve he finds he is still $1 short, so he and Flick rob Schwartz of his "lucky buck". He and his friends get a job and after going through several departments at the Higbee's store and in the end getting into a fight with the store Santa and then each other they all get fired. Ralphie bands together with Flick and Schwartz to raise enough money to pay the dealer back for fixing it before Christmas so that the car dealer won't have Ralph arrested and presumably thrown in jail. He tries testing the car out when he sees it on a display ramp, but he accidentally causes the car to roll back out of the used car lot and gently tap a light pole, causing a plastic reindeer to loosen and fall through the convertible top. Ralphie is now fifteen years old, and all he wants is a used 1939 Mercury Eight convertible for Christmas. The film takes place in 1946, six years after the events of the original film. Ī second direct sequel, which takes place 33 years after the events of the original film with most of its original cast returning, entitled A Christmas Story Christmas, was released on Novemon HBO Max and received generally better critical reception. The film was released straight to DVD on Octoto mostly negative reviews. 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). ![]() Now, Ralphie and his friends, Flick and Schwartz, must find a way to raise enough money to fix the car before Christmas.Īlthough 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. 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. The film is a direct sequel to the 1983 film A Christmas Story and ignores the events of the 1994 film My Summer Story. A Christmas Story 2 is a 2012 American Christmas comedy film directed by Brian Levant and starring Daniel Stern and Braeden Lemasters. ![]()
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