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Bookmark this pageMiracle on 34th Street (1994)
Director: Les Mayfield
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From Time Out Film Guide
Padding the deluxe avenues of Manhattan, kindly gentleman Kriss Kringle (Attenborough) is first seen confirming to a child that he is in fact the real Father Christmas. Mr Reassuring he may be, but he's also possessed of a medieval guildsman's pride: seeing the Santa from Cole's department store swigging whisky on a street parade, he wrests the reins away from him and takes over his sleigh, so impressing a Cole's executive (Perkins) that she hires him for the duration. The queues grow legion, until finally he's charged with being an impostor. That's not his only trial: he also has to convince Perkins' precocious daughter, which means delivering her Christmas list of a father, a house and a brother. This is a philosophical movie. How do you prove Santa's existence? It's a shaky business - like this movie - based on trust. All the kids I took loved it. The appeal must lie in the Santa-as-fantasy-grandfather-figure - with bottomless pockets.Author: WH
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Posted on Dec 25 2007 23:47
I absoluntly love this film one of my xmas fave..love it! x x x
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Cast & crew
Director: Les Mayfield
Producer: John Hughes
Cast: Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott, JT Walsh, Joss Ackland, James Remar full cast
Genre(s): Children's
Duration: 114 mins
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