Watching this on July 4, 2024! 👍🏼🇺🇸💥 This has become as much of a tradition for me as A Christmas Story! Such a shame they don’t put this on television! RIP Jean Shepard. 🙏
All I can say about this is that Flick deliberately made Schwartz eat too much food, and lose the sack race, which in this story makes him the 4TH of July answer to Scut Farkus.
Yep, today, 07-04-2024, I’m sitting here wondering why there aren’t any Independence Day movies on and for whatever reason I typed in to google “1980’s Fourth of July narrative movies” and voila. I saw it last in 1986 in social studies, grade 9. 38 years…. Time flies I tells ya. The brain works in very mysterious ways.
My grade 10 English teacher would spend the last ten minutes of most classes reading us classic Jean Shepherd stories, from Playboy, which he kept very tightly and strategically folded so we couldn’t tell exactly which magazine had published these gems.
Somewhat "obvious" and over-the-top. But I suppose that has to be in order to get the movie made. The Blind Date is a hollow shell of Shep's written version. And Lud Kissel's Dago Bomb is a written Shepherd classic, it just can't be done justice in a low budget film. Oh, and Kissel lived next door.
Almost 42 years ago! I was so proud that Shepherd put "The Region" on the national map (even though he changed the name of the city to Homan). Whenever I meet someone else from NW Indiana we always share a knowing chuckle. The absolute best is the rare occasion when I meet someone who says they were from Munster because then I get to say, "You're from "snooty Munster?!" and we have a laugh
@@benjaminfischer3229 The quality is a little rough since they were probably filmed on 16mm film for television but if people are familiar with “A Christmas Story”, I think people would get a kick at seeing this “sequel” also, especially with young Matt Dillon as Ralphie. I believe this was the last film with James Broderick, who died shortly afterwards. His son is Matthew Broderick, of “Day Off” fame.
@@Auntiehoney217 Jean Shepherd was the best narrator…I just start smiling the minute I hear his voice. I absolutely love Ollie Hopnoodle’s Haven of Bliss. I watched it just the other day and laughed just as much as I did the very first time I watched it. My husband and I even named our first pet Fuzzhead (she was a Torti cat) only to be able to call her in the evening, “Fuuuzzzzhead! Fuuzzzhead! Fuzzhead! Fuzzhead! Fuzzhead!” We would just crack up but of course, everyone that heard us just looked at us as if we were nuttier than we are. Great shows and there is always something in these movies that everyone can relate to! 😁
Its Hohman in the movies, Hammond in reality. Hammond is actually across the street from the Hegewisch neighborhood in Chicago Not 'Hollman' as described.
Happy 4th everyone. Thanks to seeing this movie at age 4 and watching it every 4th of July since, I grew up noticing and savoring all the little moments in life I might have missed had I not seen this. It had a huge influence on my life and still does.
South of the Border was THE place to stop for fireworks! They had them spread out like penny candies! I've been in there a half-dozen times. M-80's, Cherry bombs, roman candles!
His stories where personal yet so American that you can appreciate and identify with some part of Shepherds stories he is truly apart of Americana patch work!
I'm a longtime Jean Shepherd fan, but I was totally unaware that PBS had made TV movies of some of his stories. I wish this sort of thing would make it to DVD!
For starters, it’s Matt Dillon! Secondly, he and Billingsley are going to appear as Roman Centurions in a Biblical movie epic titled “FROM NATIVITY TO PENTECOST”, which will be filmed on location in India 🇮🇳.
