It Runs in the Family (1994)

Calificación de los usuarios:

5.4/10   

Director:

Bob Clark

Escritores (WGA):

Jean Shepherd (novels)
Jean Shepherd (screenplay) ...

Fecha de Lanzamiento:

23 septiembre 1994 (USA)

Género:

Comedia | Familia

Plot:

It is now summer in the Parker family; and the usual amount of numerous events are happening in their separate lives...

Plot Keywords:

Fishing | Hillbilly | Top | Neighbor | Dog

Comentarios de los usuarios:

A formula sequel film

Reparto

Charles Grodin	...	Mr. Parker (The Old Man)
Kieran Culkin	...	Ralph 'Ralphie' Parker
Mary Steenburgen	...	Mrs. Parker (Mother)
Christian Culkin	...	Randy Parker
Al Mancini	...	Zudoc, The Old Man's fishing buddy
Troy Evans	...	The Old Man's fishing buddy
Roy Brocksmith	...	Mr. Winchell the Assessor
Glenn Shadix	...	Leopold Doppler, Manager of Orpheum Theater
Dick O'Neill	...	Pulaski, Shopkeeper
Wayne Grace	...	Emil Bumpus
Tedde Moore	...	Miss Shields, Ralphie's Teacher
Whit Hertford	...	Lug Ditka (as Whitby Hertford)
Geoffrey Wigdor	...	Flick
David Zahorsky	...	Schwartz
Darwyn Swalve	...	Big Dickie Bumpus

También conocida como:

My Summer Story
Sucede en las mejores familias (Spain) [es]

Duración:

85 min

País:

USA

Idioma:

Inglés

Color:

Color

Relación de Aspecto:

1.85 : 1

Sonido:

Dolby

Clasificación:

Iceland:L | Spain:T | USA:PG | Canada:PG

Locaciones de Filmación:

Carolco Studios - 1223 North 23rd Street, Wilmington, North Carolina, USA

Compañía:

Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer (MGM)

Trivialidades:

Tedde Moore, who plays Miss Shields, is the only person from A Christmas Story (1983) to reprise her role for the sequel (that is, outside of Jean Shepherd narrating as an adult Ralphie).

Errores:

Continuidad: When Big Dickie is ripping the wood porch off the house, in one shot the stairs are attached to the deck, and then in the next shot they are already on the ground.

Citas:

Ralph as an Adult: The Old Man was having the time of his life being miserable. It was what he did best.

Conexiones de Película:

Sigue The Phantom of the Open Hearth (1976) (TV)

A formula sequel film

"A Christmas Story" is one of many people's all-time most beloved films. ACS was able to take the viewer to a time and a place in such a way that very few films ever have. It had a sweetness and goodwill to it that is rare.

So I awaited (and awaited) its sequel, "It Runs In The Family" . The film was almost released a couple of times, only to be pulled at the last minute. When it finally came out, IRITF was (and is, I guess) a total failure.

The sets and cinematography were just fine, but the directing totally, completely missed the mark. The film was nothing more than a cash-flow formula of lazy casting, lazy writing, and disconnected acting.

The narrator, Jean Shepard, who was one of America's great humorists and story-tellers, forced upon us a false reprise of the warm wit he used in ACS. He over-emoted, and why he did that I'll never know. He somehow managed to become an annoying, overwrought parody of himself.

The writing and acting in IRITF is inauthentic and forced. The actors may have seen ACS, but whatever wit and nuance that was in ACS mustn't have registered at all on any of them. The acting was embarrassingly slapstick and bereft of any of Shepard's dry humor.

ACS will always be a real treasure, but to call IRITF a sequel is to insult all of the fans of Jean Shepard and ACS.