New Film #6

Title:  The Santa Clause
Year of Production: 1994
Type: Film
Director: John Pasquin
Producer: Robert Newmyer, Brian Reilly, Jeffrey Silver
Writer: Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick, Karey Kirkpatrick
Production Company: Walt Disney Pictures, Hollywood Pictures, Outlaw Productions
Key Cast: Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Eric Lloyd, Wendy Crewson, David Krumholtz, Peter Boyle
Key Crew: Michael Convertino, Walt Lloyd, Larry Bock
Genre: Fantasy family comedy
Budget: $22 million
Box Office: $189.8 million
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Narrative:

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?

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TIM ALLEN: 

• Toy Story
• Toy Story 2
• The Santa Clause 2
• Christmas with the Kranks
• The Shaggy Dog
• The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause
• Toy Story 3