A Christmas Story (1983)

Ralphie wants a Red Ryder BB gun for Christmas in the 1940s, and every adult he asks tells him he will shoot his eye out. The film is a string of small domestic disasters narrated by grown-up Ralphie with wry nostalgia: the leg lamp, the tongue stuck to a frozen flagpole, the pink bunny suit. It is funny because it remembers how enormous childhood problems felt. Good for families with children old enough to sit through a gentle, episodic pace.