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Synopsis: Arthur Christmas reveals the incredible, never-before seen answer to every child's question: 'So how does Santa deliver all those presents in one night?' The answer: Santa's exhilarating, ultra-high-tech operation hidden beneath the North Pole. But at the center of the film is a story about a family in a state of comic dysfunction and an unlikely hero, Arthur, with an urgent mission that must be completed before Christmas morning dawns.
Director(s): Sarah Smith, Barry Cook (co-director)
Production: Sony Pictures
  Nominated for 1 Golden Globe. Another 3 wins & 22 nominations.
 
IMDB:
7.1
Metacritic:
69
Rotten Tomatoes:
92%
PG
Year:
2011
97 min
$46,440,491
Website
2,583 Views


Okay, go, go, go!

Revise drop time to 14.1 3 seconds.

Let's pick this up, people!

Drop time...

...revised. Picking this up...

...people.

Everybody, mission...

...re-engage.

Three...

...two...

...one!

Mission accomplished.

Hey!

Oh, what a night that was.

That detachable milk maid thing.

This is just the beginning,

right, sir?

l got you a present, sir.

Not S for Steve, sir.

S for Santa.

Oh, l don't know about that, Peter.

Okay...

...let's bring them home.

CCTV...

...in every room!

Had to go under the floor!

-Sarah.

-Back! Holly injury coming through!

Hey, fancy...

...a trip on the S-1 , Arthur?

lt only goes 1 50,000...

-...miles an hour.

-No, no. Thanks.

l see a bit of the world in my office,

you know.

Some of the stamps l get

are amazing.

Excuse me.

Santa!

Dad!

Dad! Dad!

l'm sorry. So sorry. Dad!

Dad!

-Santa's waving!

-He's waving at me!

-He's waving at me!

-At me!

Dad!

Arthur.

Happy Christmas.

You too.

You were fantastic!

Look! Christmas slippers.

Well done. Yes.

Father?

There he is. Steve!

Mission accomplished!

Tonight we delivered...

...2 billion presents.

On this...

...my 70th mission!

We'll miss you, Santa!

Stand by.

Oh, thank you.

You know, l sometimes think

l couldn't do it without you.

And my splendid...

...Margaret, who's stood by me

all these years...

...very ably doing all that...

...stuff...

...that women do when

their husbands work. Marvelous.

And Arthur, yes, doing...

...vital work in Maintenance,

really vital.

l.... l work...

...in Letters.

-Letters, of course. l'm so sorry.

-You moved me...

...after l tripped over that plug

and melted down the elf barracks.

l lost everything in that flood!

Yes. Now...

...many years ago, my father told me...

...that being Santa

is the best job in the world.

He was right.

l've loved it.

l can't wait for year 71 !

Merry Christmas, everyone.

He's red, he's white!

He's worked all through the night!

Santa!

"What do you get

if you eat Christmas decorations?

Tinselitis!"

lsn't this the best bit of Christmas?

lt certainly is, Arthur.

The whole family together.

How about a toast, Malcolm?

Well, here's to me doing

an even better job next year.

-Next year.

-But you're...

-...already perfect, Dad.

-That turkey did more than him.

You wouldn't understand, Father.

l've rather moved things on

since your day. Eh, Steve?

Forget Techno Tommy. He's texting

on his calculator after another job.

lt's a Handheld...

...Operational and Homing Organizer.

The HOHO 3000.

l'm enacting mission closure.

Aren't you the fancy nancy?

Don't matter what you come up with.

You may be next in line, but you'll never

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Peter Baynham

Peter Baynham (born 28 June 1963) is a Welsh comedian, screenwriter, and performer. Baynham often collaborates with Armando Iannucci, Chris Morris and Steve Coogan and has worked with Stewart Lee and Richard Herring. He was first heard on Morris's early radio DJ slots, often reporting from outside the studio. Other works include the "comic book in radio format" series The Harpoon, and animated sitcom I Am Not an Animal. He has appeared on the stand-up circuit as Mr Buckstead, the psychotic poet, and played the "Too Gorgeous" man in a series of mid-1990s Pot Noodle adverts, a campaign he co-wrote with Iannucci, and the role of Peter in the TV series Fist of Fun with Lee and Herring. In 2006 Baynham co-wrote the film Borat together with star Sacha Baron Cohen, Anthony Hines and Dan Mazer, for which they received a 2007 Oscar nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. Baynham graduated from Fleetwood nautical college, and served in the Merchant Navy in his teenage years. He is licensed to pilot a supertanker. more…

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