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Meanwhile, mom (Mary Steenburgen) is dealing with a movie theater giving away the same gravy boat every week - the same story is in The Phantom of the Open Hearth - while the Old Man (Charles Grodin, trying to do a grunting approximation of Darren McGavin) is battling an even bigger Bumpus clan.
Mrs. Parker's plot revolves around attempting to start a collection of celebrity dishes, one per each dish night, at the Orpheum Theatre run by Leopold Doppler. She acquires the first dish, a Ronald Colman gravy boat, though she accumulates more as Doppler announces the other dishes are unavailable due to 'misshipment'. The frustration of ...
When Leopold Doppler (Glenn Shadix) is being pelted by the gravy boats, he shouts "Rosebud" from Citizen Kane (1941) and "Top of the World, Ma!" from White Heat (1949) . However neither of these films were released at the time the movie was supposed to take place, the summer of 1940.
- Bob Clark
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All other housewives, encouraged by Mrs. Parker's act, also start raining down the surplus gravy boats towards Doppler, enraged at the frustration and the apparent fraudulent scheme. Mrs. Parker is arrested for the act, though with a relieved smile on her face.
A review of the 1994 comedy It Runs In The Family, aka My Summer Story the sequel to A Christmas Story, starring Charles Grodin, Mary Steenburgen and Kieran Culkin.
Mary Nell Steenburgen (/ ˈ s t iː n b ɜːr dʒ ə n /; born February 8, 1953) is an American actress, comedian, singer, and songwriter. After studying at New York's Neighborhood Playhouse in the 1970s, she made her professional acting debut in the Western comedy film Goin' South (1978).
Whether conducting a quest for the ultimate in spinning tops, watching his mother (Steenburgen) lead the gravy boat rebellion at the Orpheum Theater, or aiding the Old Man (Grodin) in his one-man war against their hillbilly neighbors, this was the summer Ralphie would always rememebr as the greatest of his life.
