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From: roger@celtics.UUCP (Roger Klorese)
Newsgroups: net.movies
Subject: Re: A Christmas Story
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Date: Tue, 24-Dec-85 09:43:48 EST
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In article <879@dataioDataio.UUCP> bright@dataio.UUCP (Walter Bright writes:
>I just saw this movie last weekend, and highly recommend it. The style
>of the movie, and parts of the plot, are strongly reminiscent of a
>movie I saw a few years back called 'Phantom of the Open Hearth'. In
>fact, the sequence with the tacky lamp seems to have been lifted
>directly from the previous movie. Has anyone else noticed this? Are
>the directors or script writers of the two movies the same?

Both are adaptations of the books/radio shows of raconteur Jean Shepherd.
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 ... "What were you expecting, rock'n'roll?"                                  

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