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Synopsis: Divorcee Scott Calvin is disgusted to learn that his ex and her husband have tried - and failed - to break it easy to their 6-year-old son Charlie that Santa isn't real. On Christmas Eve, Scott reads The Night Before Christmas... then receives an unexpected visitor on his roof. When he's startled by Scott's calling out and falls, the Santa impersonator disappears, leaving only an 8-reindeer sleigh and a suit with instructions to put it on if he's involved in an accident. Scott does, and is transported around the town dropping gifts through chimneys until he's taken to the North Pole and informed by a group who claim they're elves that he is now Santa. Charlie is proud of his dad's new job, though Scott's convinced it's a dream. Until his hair turns white, his beard refuses to stay shaved, he gains weight inexplicably, even for his sudden love of junk food... Now he's accepted it, there's just one problem: how to keep it secret from his disbelieving family?
Genre: Comedy, Drama, Family
Director(s): John Pasquin
Production: Buena Vista Distribution Compa
  2 wins & 8 nominations.
 
IMDB:
6.4
Metacritic:
57
Rotten Tomatoes:
74%
PG
Year:
1994
97 min
5,123 Views


I'm dreamin' | of a white Christmas

- Your Christmas will be perfect-- | - Just like the ones I used to know

...with its own | built-in turkey timer.

Where those treetops | glisten

-And now, we return to the most | cherished of Christmas stories, | -And children listen

- Miracle On 34th Street, | starring Natalie Wood and-- | - To hear sleigh bells in the snow--

That is exactly why you want | a high-quality fire extinguisher | right in the kitchen.

Those flames | were really big, Dad.

- Yeah, turkey's funny that way. | - Dad!

'Ey!

It's done.

You like osso buco, Charlie? | They're closed.

You know, Neal's | a real good cook.

Yeah, and you should see him | walk on water.

- You don't like him | very much, do ya, Dad? | - Charlie, yeah--

I was joking, okay? I'm sorry. | I was just kiddin' around.

I like him a lo-- Yeah, sure, | I like him. You know, there--

There's just something | about him that makes me wanna--

Lash out irrationally?

- Where did you hear that? | - From Neal.

I learn a lot from him. | He listens to me.

Yeah. Then he | charges ya for it.

I'm dreaming

- Of a white Christmas | - All right. Denny's.

- Just like the ones I used to know | - It's always open. | - I don't wanna eat here.

- What are you talkin' about? | Everybody likes Denny's. | - Where those treetops

- It's an American institution. | - Glisten

- Are you with Hatsutashi? | - No!

- Dad burnt the turkey. | - Oh, yeah. This way. Come on.

- Right over there. | - Thank you.

- Here we go. | - Burn the turkey?

- Coffee? | - No, thank you, Judy.

What do you say we start out | with cold glasses...

of delicious seasonal | favourite eggnog?

- I don't like eggnog. | - We're out.

- Coffee. Decaf. | - Mm-hmm.

- I'll have chocolate milk, please. | - We're out.

- Plain milk's fine. | - Okay.

- At least we know | they got hot apple pie. | - We did.

Mm-hmm!

This is nice.

"And Mama in her kerchief | and I in my cap...

- I'm dreaming | - "had just settled down | for a long winter's nap.

- Of a white | - "When out on the lawn, | there arose such a clatter,

- Christmas | - "l sprang from my bed | to see what was the matter.

"Away to the window | I flew like a flash.

"With a miniature sleigh and St. | Nich-- and Prancer and Dancer--

...and to all a good night."

- What's that? | - What's what?

"A Rose Suchak ladder"?

It's not a ladder. | I said, "arose such a clatter."

It means, eh, | "came a big noise."

What?

Charlie, "arose" is a word | that means "it came,"

and "clatter" | is a big noise.

Now, please, go to sleep. | Shut your eyes.

How do reindeer fly? | They don't have any wings.

- Fairy dust? | - That's from Peter Pan, Dad.

- Horns. | - Antlers.

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Leo Benvenuti

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Submitted on August 05, 2018

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