A Christmas Story is a 1983 American Christmas comedy film directed by Bob Clark and based on Jean Shepherd's semi-fictional anecdotes in his 1966 book In God We Trust: All Others Pay Cash, with some elements from his 1971 book Wanda Hickey's Night of Golden Memories. It stars Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, and Peter Billingsley. A seasonal classic in North America, it is shown numerous times on television, usually on the networks owned by the Turner Broadcasting System. Since 1997, a marathon of the film titled 24 Hours of A Christmas Story has aired annually on TNT and/or TBS, comprising twelve consecutive airings of the film on both Christmas Eve and Christmas Day each year. The film earned director Clark two Genie Awards.
The series stars Disney newcomer Dove Cameron as both Liv and Maddie Rooney. The series also stars stand-up comedian Joey Bragg and Tenzing Norgay Trainor as the younger brothers, Benjamin King as their dad, a basketball coach, and Kali Rocha as their mom, a school psychologist.
1 In Gone Girl, Liv completed a locator spell for Bonnie and Jeremy to find Katherine, who was in Elena 's body. 2  Liv is the third female witch to have been a bartender in the Vampire Diaries series. 3  She is older than Luke by five minutes. 4  She and Luke are the second pair of twins born to their parents.