Everything to Know About A Christmas Story Christmas

November 2, 2022, 7:00pm

Almost 40 years after A Christmas Story, a grown-up Ralphie Parker (Peter Billingsley) wants only one thing in A Christmas Story Christmas — and it won’t shoot his eye out. Instead of the official Red Ryder carbine action 200-shot range model air rifle of his boyhood dreams, adult Ralphie wishes to gift his mother what his late “Old Man” would have wanted: an original, traditional, one-hundred-percent, red-blooded, two-fisted, all-American Christmas.

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Below, we triple-dog dare you to keep reading to find out where to stream A Christmas Story, how to watch A Christmas Story Christmas, and everything else you need to know about the Christmas Story sequel.

**Where to Watch A Christmas Story Christmas Online**

A Christmas Story Christmas is streaming exclusively on HBO Max on November 17th. An HBO Max subscription is required to watch A Christmas Story Christmas on the service, but there’s no additional fee to subscribers.

**Can I Watch A Christmas Story Christmas With an HBO Max Free Trial?**

As of November 2022, there is no HBO Max free trial available. The streamer does offer HBO Max free episodes to sample without a subscription — including Game of Thrones spinoff House of the Dragon, Succession, Peacemaker, and The White Lotus — but there’s no way to watch A Christmas Story Christmas for the “f-dash-dash-dash” word: “free.”

**Where to Watch A Christmas Story in 2022**

The original A Christmas Story is available to stream with a subscription on HBO Max, TNT, TBS, and TruTV. The 1983 film is also available to buy or rent digitally via Apple TV+, Google Play, Amazon Prime Video, Movies Anywhere, the Microsoft Store, Vudu, Redbox, and YouTube. A Christmas Story 4K is now available to own for the first time on disc alongside other holiday favorites.

A Christmas Story: Ralphie Comes Home

Per the logline, HBO Max describes the Christmas Story sequel: Set in the 1970s, A Christmas Story Christmas follows anadult Ralphie as he returns to the house on Cleveland Street to deliverhis kids a magical Christmas like the one he had growing up. With the same attention-to-real-life tone ofthe first, Ralphie reconnects with childhood friends, reconciles thepassing of his Old Man and sows the seeds for the origins of the belovedholiday classic.

A Christmas Story Christmas Cast

Along with Billingsley’s Ralphie return, the sequel features original Christmas Story cast members Ian Petrella as Ralphie’s younger brother, Randy; R.D. Robb as the triple dog-daring Schwartz; Scott Schwartz as the frozen-tongued Flick; and Zack Ward as the yellow-eyed bully Scut Farkus.

The new cast includes Erinn Hayes as Ralphie’s wife, Sandy Parker; River Drosche and Julianna Layne as their children; and Julie Hagerty as Ralphie’s mother, Mrs. Parker, replacing Melinda Dillon.

**Is Melinda Dillon in the New Christmas Story?**

Melinda Dillon retired from acting in 2007, last appearing in the film Reign Over Me and the TV series Heartland. Darren McGavin, who portrayed Ralphie’s lovably grumpy, lamp-loving Old Man in the 1983 original, died in 2006. A Christmas Story Christmas takes place after the death of Ralphie’s father and pays tribute to the Parker patriarch.