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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Family /
Fantasy /
Romance /
Music
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Director:
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George Seaton
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Actors:
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Porter Hall,
Jerome Cowan,
John Payne,
Philip Tonge,
Maureen O'Hara,
Edmund Gwenn,
Gene Lockhart,
Natalie Wood,
William Frawley
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Duration:
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96 min.
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Rating:
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(8/10)53.5
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Plot Summary:
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At the Macy's Department Store Thanksgiving Day strut, the actor playing Santa is discovered to be drunk alongside a whiskered primitive man. Doris Walker, the no monkeyshines special events conductor, persuades the old retainer to fill up e deal with his wrong. The tumbledown chap proves to be a commotion and is quickly recruited to be the store Santa at the main Macy's retailer. While he is successful, Ms. Walker learns that he calls himself Kris Kringle and he claims to be the actual Santa Claus. Regard for reassurances at near Kringle's doctor that he is non-toxic, Doris however has misgi... vings, especially when she has cynically trained herself, and especially her daughter, Susan, to set aside all notions of dogma and fantasy. And in the future, people, remarkably Susan, inaugurate to perceive there is something special in Kris and his determination to the true sentiments of Christmas amidst the frenzied commercialism around him and succeeding in ludicrous ways. When a ear-splitting Donnybrook with the lay away's cruelly inept psychologist erupts, Kris finds himself held at Bellevue where, in despair, he deliberates fails a mental probe to ensure his commitment. All seems unchaste until Doris' playmate, Fred Jauntily, reassure Kris of his worth and agrees to represent him in the fight to secure his release. To about that, Fred arranges a formal hearing in which he argues that Kris is sane because he is in event Santa Claus. What ensues is a bizarre hearing in which people's beliefs are reexamined and lay away to the test, but the same so, it's going to take a miracle for Kris to realize.
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Miracle on 34th Street
Padding the deluxe avenues of Manhattan, kindly gentleman Kriss Kringle (Attenborough) is first seen confirming to a...
very xmassy!
Great christmas film, all year round i say!
All younger people will love it, and secretly, so will the 'grown ups!'
Miracle on 34th Street
A rather insipid remake of George Seaton's 1947 perennial about a little girl who refuses to believe in Father Christmas. It's not that there is anything particularly offensive here, although nearly two hours of trying to be cute is a little jarring. With her bowl haircut and wide eyes, Wilson hogs the limelight for the most part, while Attenborough tries a little too hard to exude sincerity as Kriss Kringle. A misfiring 'something for the parents' plotline is thrown in involving the girl's mum (Perkins) and her relationship with a neighbour (McDermott). The innocent charm that makes the original still appealing is nowhere in evidence.
I believe!
Capturing the Christmas resolve without overdoing the schmaltz, this legend of a store Santa proving in court that he's the real thing really warmes the cockles of calm the hardest Scrooge's heart. Richard Attenborough is, without a doubt, the wealthiest Santa ever committed to celuloid. I suppose in Santa Claus!
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