Posts Tagged ‘santa-claus’

Nightmare Before Christmas, The (1993)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Elfman, Danny | Sarandon, Chris | O'Hara, Catherine | Hickey, William | Shadix, Glenn | Reubens, Paul | Page, Ken | Ivory, Ed | McBride, Susan | Durst, Debi | Proops, Greg | Katz, Kerry | Crenshaw, Randy | Ball, Sherwood | Twillie, Carmen
Directors: Selick, Henry
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Bored and unhappy with the life of being “The Pumpkin King” Jack Skellington of Halloween Town, Jack sets out to find something exciting. Jack discovers “Christmas Town” and takes it upon himself to take over the duties of Santa to deliver toys across the world to children.

Home Alone (1990)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Culkin, Macaulay | Pesci, Joe | Stern, Daniel | Heard, John | Blossom, Roberts | O'Hara, Catherine | Goethals, Angela | Ratray, Devin | Bamman, Gerry | Snell, Terrie | Wolf, Hillary | Hankin, Larry | Maronna, Michael C. | Minter, Kristin | Campeanu, Daiana
Directors: Columbus, Chris
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Kevin McAllister, 8 years old is accidentally left behind while his family rushes to the Airport to go to France for their Christmas vacation. Kevin learns that he made his family is gone. He spends his first day having fun in his house. Kevin learns that Mav and Harry (The Wet Bandits), two crooks are trying to rob his house. Kevin fends for himself and protects his house from the thieves, by setting traps everywhere. Meanwhile, Kevin’s mother discovers that they left Kevin in Chicago and tries to go back to Chicago while the other members of the family stay in Fance.

Michael (1996)

Wednesday, December 23rd, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Fantasy | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Travolta, John | MacDowell, Andie | Hurt, William | Hoskins, Bob | Pastorelli, Robert | Stapleton, Jean | Garr, Teri | Langham, Wallace | Adams, Joey Lauren | Gugino, Carla | Hodges, Tom | Burns, Catherine Lloyd | Schiff, Richard | Trillin, Calvin | Lee Jr., Donald J.
Directors: Ephron, Nora
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Frank Quinlan and Huey Driscoll, two reporters from a Chicago-based tabloid, along with Dorothy Winters, an ‘angel expert’, are asked to travel to rural Iowa to investigate a claim from an old woman that she shares her house with a real, live archangel named Michael. Upon arrival, they see that her claims are true - but Michael is not what they expected: he smokes, drinks beer, has a very active libido and has a rather colourful vocabulary. In fact, they would never believe it were it not for the two feathery wings protruding from his back. Michael agrees to travel to Chicago with the threesome, but what they don’t realise is that the journey they are about to undertake will change their lives forever.

Polar Express, The (2004)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Hanks, Tom | Harter Zemeckis, Leslie | Deezen, Eddie | Gaye, Nona | Scolari, Peter | King, Brendan | Pellick, Andy | Eli, Josh | Mendonca, Mark | Hendricks, Rolandas | Goodman, Mark | Scott, Jon | Gast, Gregory | Scott, Sean | Hart, Gordon | Jeter, Michael
Directors: Zemeckis, Robert
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Santa Claus does not exist. Or does he? For one doubting boy (voice of Daryl Sabara and Tom Hanks), an astonishing event occurs. Late on Christmas Eve night, he lies in bed hoping to hear the sound of reindeer bells from Santa’s sleigh. When to his surprise, a steam engine’s roar and whistle can be heard outside his window. The conductor (voice of Tom Hanks) invites him on board to take an extraordinary journey to the North Pole with many other pajama-clad children. There, he receives an extraordinary gift only those who still believe in Santa can experience.

Black Christmas (1974)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Cassidy, Katie | Trachtenberg, Michelle | Chabert, Lacey | Cloke, Kristen | Martin, Andrea | Winstead, Mary Elizabeth | Lowe, Crystal | Hudson, Oliver | Harmon, Jessica | Savasta, Leela | Kole, Kathleen | Konoval, Karin | Mann, Robert | Friss, Dean | Wiebe, Cainan
Directors: Morgan, Glen
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This 98-minute film is a stark and stylish horror/thriller that turns everyone’s favorite time of the year inside out. Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder star among an ill-fated houseful of sorority sisters celebrating the holiday season. Festivities turn fatal when obscene phone calls break the serenity and it becomes clear that a psychopath is stalking the house.

Mr. St. Nick (2002)

Thursday, January 15th, 2009
Genres: Comedy | Fantasy
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Grammer, Kelsey | Durning, Charles | Helmond, Katherine | Bedford, Brian | Hendrix, Elaine | Ortiz, Ana | Garcia, Luis | Ontiveros, Lupe | Miranda, Brian | Shawn, Wallace | Sood, Veena | Gale, Lorena | Cunningham, Colin
Directors: Zisk, Craig
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n Mistletoe Manor, King Nicholas XX, commonly known as Santa Claus (Oscar ® and Emmy nominee Charles Durning, Hard Time), and his wife Carlotta (Emmy nominee and Golden Globe winner Katherine Helmond, “Who’s The Boss?”), aren’t feeling particularly jolly. With Christmas only weeks away, the aging king is ready to pass his throne to the Crown Prince, Nick St. Nicholas (Golden Globe and Emmy winner Kelsey Grammer, Animal Farm). But the sexy Santa-to-be is a no-show heir with other priorities - his lavish seaside estate, leggy newswoman Heidi Gardelle (Elaine Hendrix, The Parent Trap), and public relations expert Hector Villarba (Luis Garcia, “American Family”). Heidi and Hector may not know Nick’s true identity, but they do know that he is the prince of benefits. Their plan? Use his knockout connections to create an on-line holiday charity. Nick’s all for it. Unfortunately, the problems are just beginning. A charge of fraud has turned Nick’s charity into a nationwide scandal. What’s it going to take to prevent Christmas from becoming a dim memory? Nothing short of a miracle.

Miracle on 34th Street (1994)

Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
Genres: Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Attenborough, Richard | Perkins, Elizabeth | McDermott, Dylan | Walsh, J.T. | Remar, James | Leeves, Jane | Jones, Simon | Windom, William | Wilson, Mara | Prosky, Robert | Narducci, Kathrine | McCormack, Mary | Greenman, Alvin | Janney, Allison | Noonan, Greg
Directors: Mayfield, Les
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A little girl discovers dreams do come true if you really believe. Six-year-old Susan has doubts about childhood’s most enduring miracle - Santa Claus. Her mother told her the “secret” about Santa a long time ago, so Susan doesn’t expect to receive the most important gifts on her Christmas list. But after meeting a special department store Santa who’s convinced he’s the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all - something to believe in.

Santa Clause, The (1994)

Tuesday, December 23rd, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Allen, Tim | Crewson, Wendy | Reinhold, Judge | Lloyd, Eric | Krumholtz, David | Brandenburg, Larry | Gross, Mary | Tamada, Paige | Boyle, Peter | Scott, Judith | Eastwood, Jayne | King, Melissa | Wentworth, Bradley | Bates, Azura
Directors: Pasquin, John
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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?

Bluetoes, the Christmas Elf (1988)

Friday, December 12th, 2008
Genres: Animation | Family
Countries: Canada
Actors: Broadfoot, Dave | Jones, Polly | Bradford, James | Finestone, Jennifer | Jones, Rick | MacCormack, Anna | Mulroney, Ben | O'Reilly, Michael
Directors: Casey, Mik
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Blutoes the Christmas elf is a wonderful story about an elf who does not fit in with the others; his only real friend is a penguin. On Christmas Eve, Blutoes sneaks onto Santa’s sleigh so that he can see his penguin friend home safely. Bluetoes goes into to a house to keep warm while waiting for Santa. In this house there is a little boy and a little girl who are too poor to even have stockings, so Bluetoes takes of his socks, hangs them up as stockings and fills them with toys. Bluetoes is waiting outside for Santa in his bare feet, his toes turn blue and that it is why they call him Bluetoes.

Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause, The (2006)

Monday, December 8th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Allen, Tim | Mitchell, Elizabeth | Lloyd, Eric | Reinhold, Judge | Crewson, Wendy | Breslin, Spencer | Mumy, Liliana | Short, Martin | Ann-Margret | Arkin, Alan | Breslin, Abigail | LaFleur, Art | Tyler, Aisha | Pollak, Kevin | Thomas, Jay
Directors: Lembeck, Michael
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Santa’s got problems: it’s a few days before Christmas and production lags, Mrs. Claus is about to give birth and wants family time, and Jack Frost (tired of second billing) is on probation under Santa’s supervision. Santa tries to support his wife by bringing her parents to the North Pole (to preserve the secret of Santa, they must think it’s Canada). Santa also brings his ex, her husband, and their daughter Lucy. Inside the toy factory, Jack makes mischief and hatches a plan to become Santa. With Santa juggling that many snow globes, something is bound to go wrong. But if things get too difficult, Santa can always exercise his option to invoke the Escape Clause. Will he?