My Summer Story Movie Review 1994

Humorist Shepherd and director Clark re-team for another period family comedy in the tradition of their first collaboration, "A Christmas Story," now a video classic. This time the Parkers find themselves battling their crazy new neighbors, the Bumpus family, Ralphie (Kieran Culkin) has troubles with a neighborhood bully and tries to bond with his dad (Grodin) while fishing, and mom (Steenburgen) goes loopy over gravy boats. Charming family fun. Based on Shepherd's novels "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash" and "Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories and Other Disasters."

Distribution

MGM Home Entertainment, 2500 Broadway, Santa Monica, CA 90404-6061, Phone: (310)449-3000, Fax: (310)449-3100, URL: http://www.mgmhomevideo.com, Remarks: Does not handle retail queries from consumers; contact your local video distributor.

Available on VHS
Running time 85 minutes.

Cast and Crew

Genres

Go Fish, Books to Film: Jean Shepherd, Family Comedy

Screenplay

Jean Shepherd, Bob (Benjamin) Clark, Leigh Brown

Cast

Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen, Kieran Culkin, Chris Culkin, Al Mancini, Troy Evans, Glenn Shadix, Dick O'Neill, Wayne Grace

Cinematography

Stephen M. Katz

Director

Bob (Benjamin) Clark

Music

Paul Zaza

Other

Jean Shepherd

Producer

Rene Dupont, Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer Pictures