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It was a fantastic surprise and i would put it right up there, if not in number one position, as the best film festival films i have ever seen. The pace and storyline were top notch and although some of the characters were a bit weak in substance and originality it took nothing away from my enjoyment of the film. This is one i would highly recommend to any film fan except those under Indeed it is one i would be proud to recommend as it has a dark and dry sense of humour and an original twist on the Christmas tale.

I will buy the DVD and happily see it again; I rarely say those words these days. Explore popular and recently added TV series available to stream now with Prime Video. Start your free trial. Find showtimes, watch trailers, browse photos, track your Watchlist and rate your favorite movies and TV shows on your phone or tablet! Keep track of everything you watch; tell your friends. Full Cast and Crew. In the depths of the Korvatunturi mountains, meters deep, lies the closest ever guarded secret of Christmas.

The time has come to dig it up. This Christmas everyone will believe in Santa Claus. Holiday Movies From Around the World. Christmas movies to watch. Share this Rating Title: A Christmas Tale 6. In , the Italian city of Bari mounted an expedition to locate the tomb of the Saint. The reliquary of St. Nicholas was conquered by Italian sailors and his relics were taken to Bari [8] [9] where they are kept to this day. A basilica was constructed the same year to store the loot and the area became a pilgrimage site for the devout.

Sailors from Bari collected just half of Nicholas' skeleton, leaving all the minor fragments in the grave. These were collected by Venetian sailors during the First Crusade and taken to Venice , where a church to St. This tradition was confirmed in two important scientific investigations of the relics in Bari and Venice , which revealed that the relics in the two Italian cities belong to the same skeleton.

Saint Nicholas was later claimed as a patron saint of many diverse groups, from archers , sailors, and children to pawnbrokers. During the Middle Ages, often on the evening before his name day of 6 December, children were bestowed gifts in his honour. This date was earlier than the original day of gifts for the children, which moved in the course of the Reformation and its opposition to the veneration of saints in many countries on the 24th and 25 December. So Saint Nicholas changed to Santa Claus. The custom of gifting to children at Christmas has been propagated by Martin Luther as an alternative to the previous very popular gift custom on St.

Nicholas, to focus the interest of the children to Christ instead of the veneration of saints.

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Martin Luther first suggested the Christkind as the bringer of gifts. But Nicholas remained popular as gifts bearer for the people. Father Christmas dates back as far as 16th century in England during the reign of Henry VIII , when he was pictured as a large man in green or scarlet robes lined with fur. In the Netherlands and Belgium the character of Santa Claus has to compete with that of Sinterklaas , Santa's presumed progenitor. Schmutzli carries a twig broom to spank the naughty children. Prior to Christianization, the Germanic peoples including the English celebrated a midwinter event called Yule Old English geola or giuli.

Wodan's role during the Yuletide period has been theorized as having influenced concepts of St. Nicholas in a variety of facets, including his long white beard and his gray horse for nightly rides compare Odin's horse Sleipnir or his reindeer in North American tradition. Pre-modern representations of the gift-giver from Church history and folklore, notably St Nicholas known in Dutch as Sinterklaas , merged with the English character Father Christmas to create the character known to Americans and the rest of the English-speaking world as "Santa Claus" a phonetic derivation of "Sinterklaas".

In the English and later British colonies of North America, and later in the United States, British and Dutch versions of the gift-giver merged further. For example, in Washington Irving 's History of New York , Sinterklaas was Americanized into "Santa Claus" a name first used in the American press in [28] but lost his bishop's apparel, and was at first pictured as a thick-bellied Dutch sailor with a pipe in a green winter coat.

Irving's book was a lampoon of the Dutch culture of New York, and much of this portrait is his joking invention. In , the book A New-year's present, to the little ones from five to twelve was published in New York. It contained Old Santeclaus with Much Delight , an anonymous poem describing Santeclaus on a reindeer sleigh, bringing presents to children. Nick is described as being "chubby and plump, a right jolly old elf" with "a little round belly", that "shook when he laughed like a bowlful of jelly", in spite of which the "miniature sleigh" and "tiny reindeer" still indicate that he is physically diminutive.

The reindeer were also named: By 'Kris Kringle' was a common variant of Santa in parts of the U. Nicholas' or 'Santa Claus'. The author [34] quotes Moore's poem in its entirety, saying that its descriptions apply to Krishkinkle too. As the years passed, Santa Claus evolved in popular culture into a large, heavyset person. One of the first artists to define Santa Claus's modern image was Thomas Nast , an American cartoonist of the 19th century.

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In , a picture of Santa illustrated by Nast appeared in Harper's Weekly. Santa was dressed in an American flag , and had a puppet with the name " Jeff " written on it, reflecting its Civil War context. Webster, who wrote that Santa Claus's home was "near the North Pole, in the ice and snow". A boy from Colorado writing to the children's magazine The Nursery in late said, "If we did not live so very far from the North Pole, I should ask Santa Claus to bring me a donkey.

The idea of a wife for Santa Claus may have been the creation of American authors, beginning in the midth century. In , the poet Katharine Lee Bates popularized Mrs. The editorial, which included the famous reply " Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus ", has become an indelible part of popular Christmas lore in the United States and Canada. Much of Santa Claus's mythos was not set in stone at the time, leaving Baum to give his "Neclaus" Necile's Little One a wide variety of immortal support, a home in the Laughing Valley of Hohaho, and ten reindeer—who could not fly, but leapt in enormous, flight-like bounds.

Claus's immortality was earned, much like his title "Santa" , decided by a vote of those naturally immortal. This work also established Claus's motives: When Ak, Master Woodsman of the World, exposes him to the misery and poverty of children in the outside world, Santa strives to find a way to bring joy into the lives of all children, and eventually invents toys as a principal means.

Santa later appears in The Road to Oz as a honored guest at Ozma's birthday party, stated to be famous and beloved enough for everyone to bow even before he is announced as "The most Mighty and Loyal Friend of Children, His Supreme Highness - Santa Claus". The image of Santa Claus as a benevolent character became reinforced with its association with charity and philanthropy, particularly by organizations such as the Salvation Army.

Volunteers dressed as Santa Claus typically became part of fundraising drives to aid needy families at Christmas time. In , Charles W. Howard , who played Santa Claus in department stores and parades, established the Charles W. Howard Santa School, the oldest continuously-run such school in the world.

In some images from the early 20th century, Santa was depicted as personally making his toys by hand in a small workshop like a craftsman. Eventually, the idea emerged that he had numerous elves responsible for making the toys, but the toys were still handmade by each individual elf working in the traditional manner. The popular song by George Melachrino , "Mrs. Santa Claus", and the children's book How Mrs. Claus in the popular imagination. Seabury Quinn 's novel Roads draws from historical legends to tell the story of Santa and the origins of Christmas.

Other modern additions to the "story" of Santa include Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer , the 9th and lead reindeer immortalized in a Gene Autry song, written by a Montgomery Ward copywriter. By the end of the 20th century, the reality of mass mechanized production became more fully accepted by the Western public. That shift was reflected in the modern depiction of Santa's residence—now often humorously portrayed as a fully mechanized production and distribution facility, equipped with the latest manufacturing technology, and overseen by the elves with Santa and Mrs.

Claus as executives or managers. Santa's main distribution center is a sight to behold. A real-time warehouse management system WMS is of course required to run such a complex. The facility makes extensive use of task interleaving, literally combining dozens of DC activities putaway, replenishing, order picking, sleigh loading, cycle counting in a dynamic queue The WMS and transportation system are fully integrated, allowing the elves to make optimal decisions that balance transportation and order picking and other DC costs.

Unbeknownst to many, Santa actually has to use many sleighs and fake Santa drivers to get the job done Christmas Eve, and the transportation management system TMS optimally builds thousands of consolidated sacks that maximize cube utilization and minimize total air miles. Santa has been described as a positive male cultural icon:. Santa is really the only cultural icon we have who's male, does not carry a gun, and is all about peace, joy, giving, and caring for other people.

That's part of the magic for me, especially in a culture where we've become so commercialized and hooked into manufactured icons. Santa is much more organic, integral, connected to the past, and therefore connected to the future. Many television commercials, comic strips and other media depict this as a sort of humorous business, with Santa's elves acting as a sometimes mischievously disgruntled workforce, cracking jokes and pulling pranks on their boss.

President Reagan steps in, fires all of Santa's helpers, and replaces them with out-of-work air traffic controllers an obvious reference to the air traffic controllers' strike , resulting in a riot before Santa vindictively rehires them in humiliating new positions such as his reindeer. Claus were running a sweatshop over there The original elves were ugly, traveled with Santa to throw bad kids a beatin', and gave the good ones toys.

In Kyrgyzstan, a mountain peak was named after Santa Claus, after a Swedish company had suggested the location be a more efficient starting place for present-delivering journeys all over the world, than Lapland. In the Kyrgyz capital, Bishkek , a Santa Claus Festival was held on 30 December , with government officials attending. The events are seen as moves to boost tourism in Kyrgyzstan. On 9 September where a total of 12, people dressed up as Santa or Santa's helper which previously brought down the record of 3,, which was set during the Santa Dash event in Liverpool City Centre in The Terry Pratchett discworld novels, particularly Hogfather feature a character loosely based on Santa Claus, called The Hogfather, and a winter festival, resembling Christmas, called Hogswatch.

In the novel, Pratchett explores the pre-christian roots of modern Christmas traditions. In , Hogfather was adapted into a television series starring David Jason , which has been broadcast during the Christmas period. The tradition of Santa Claus entering dwellings through the chimney is shared by many European seasonal gift-givers. In pre-Christian Norse tradition, Odin would often enter through chimneys and fire holes on the solstice.

In the tale of Saint Nicholas, the saint tossed coins through a window, and, in a later version of the tale, down a chimney when he finds the window locked. In Dutch artist Jan Steen 's painting, The Feast of Saint Nicholas , adults and toddlers are glancing up a chimney with amazement on their faces while other children play with their toys. The hearth was held sacred in primitive belief as a source of beneficence, and popular belief had elves and fairies bringing gifts to the house through this portal.

Santa's entrance into homes on Christmas Eve via the chimney was made part of American tradition through the poem "A Visit from St. Nicholas" where the author described him as an elf. In the United States and Canada, children traditionally leave Santa a glass of milk and a plate of cookies ; in Britain and Australia, he is sometimes given sherry or beer, and mince pies instead.

In Denmark, Norway and Sweden, it is common for children to leave him rice porridge with cinnamon sugar instead. In Ireland it is popular to give him Guinness or milk, along with Christmas pudding or mince pies. They get sweets in a bag if they were good, and a golden colored birch switch if not. On Christmas Eve "Little Jesus" comes and gives gifts for everyone.

New Zealander, British, Australian, Irish, Canadian, and American children also leave a carrot for Santa's reindeer, and are told that if they are not good all year round that they will receive a lump of coal in their stockings, although the actual practice of giving coal is now considered archaic. Children following the Dutch custom for sinterklaas will "put out their shoe" leave hay and a carrot for his horse in a shoe before going to bed, sometimes weeks before the sinterklaas avond.

The next morning they will find the hay and carrot replaced by a gift; often, this is a marzipan figurine. Naughty children were once told that they would be left a roe a bundle of sticks instead of sweets, but this practice has been discontinued. Last minute rituals for children before going to bed include aligning stockings at the mantelpiece or other place where Santa cannot fail to see them, peeking up the chimney in homes with a fireplace , glancing out a window and scanning the heavens for Santa's sleigh, and in homes without a fireplace unlocking an exterior door so Santa can easily enter the house.

Tags on gifts for children are sometimes signed by their parents "From Santa Claus" before the gifts are laid beneath the tree. Ho ho ho is the way that many languages write out how Santa Claus laughs. The laughter of Santa Claus has long been an important attribute by which the character is identified, but it also does not appear in many non- English -speaking countries. The traditional Christmas poem A Visit from St. Nicholas relates that Santa has:.

Santa Claus's home traditionally includes a residence and a workshop where he creates—often with the aid of elves or other supernatural beings—the gifts he delivers to good children at Christmas. Some stories and legends include a village, inhabited by his helpers, surrounding his home and shop. There is also a city named North Pole in Alaska where a tourist attraction known as the "Santa Claus House" has been established. Each Nordic country claims Santa's residence to be within their territory.

In Denmark, he is said to live in Greenland near Uummannaq. In Sweden, the town of Mora has a theme park named Tomteland. The national postal terminal in Tomteboda in Stockholm receives children's letters for Santa. Santa Claus appears in the weeks before Christmas in department stores or shopping malls, or at parties. The practice of this has been credited [ dubious — discuss ] to James Edgar , as he started doing this in in his Brockton, Massachusetts department store.

Santa's function is either to promote the store's image by distributing small gifts to children, or to provide a seasonal experience to children by listening to their wishlist while having them sit on his knee a practice now under review by some organisations in Britain, [59] and Switzerland [60]. Sometimes a photograph of the child and Santa are taken. Having a Santa set up to take pictures with children is a ritual that dates back at least to The area set up for this purpose is festively decorated, usually with a large throne, and is called variously "Santa's Grotto", "Santa's Workshop" or a similar term.

In the United States, the most notable of these is the Santa at the flagship Macy's store in New York City—he arrives at the store by sleigh in the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade on the last float, and his court takes over a large portion of one floor in the store. Essayist David Sedaris is known for the satirical SantaLand Diaries he kept while working as an elf in the Macy's display, which were turned into a famous radio segment and later published.

In Canada, malls operated by Oxford Properties established a process by which autistic children could visit Santa Claus at the mall without having to contend with crowds. In , the Southcentre Mall in Calgary was the first mall to offer this service. There are schools offering instruction on how to act as Santa Claus. A businessman tries to uncover a family secret for his grandmother after he returns to a small town to modernize his family's real-estate company.

Christmas with a Capital C. Traumatized by her mother's death, a 6-year-old girl stops talking but is cared for by her three uncles. The story unfolds as all of them find the importance of family. A Christmas Without Snow. Clarence Odbody tries to help a young mother who is about to commit suicide. A young Latina in East Los Angeles meets an African-American Lowrider, and struggles to reconcile her faith and blossoming love affair while becoming dangerously involved in a religious attempt to clone Jesus.

A Dennis the Menace Christmas. Dennis tries to inject his grinchy neighbor Mr. A Dog Named Christmas. The Dog Who Saved Christmas. Made by Lifetime Television, this retelling of Dickens' A Christmas Carol features Susan Lucci in the title role of Elizabeth Scrooge, a hard-driven department store owner with no compassion and no time for Christmas joy until she receives a visit from three Christmas spirits.

All the major male roles in this version have been changed to female characters. Six-year-old Eloise has various adventures at the Plaza Hotel prior to the holiday, in this adaptation of Kay Thompson's book. Aspiring musician Evie Lee must return home to save the family's Christmas Tree farm and decide what's most important in life. A Fairly Odd Christmas. A woman and a photojournalist try to track down a mysterious Christmas hero with the help of an angel. A dying man attempts to reconcile with the family he had abandoned years earlier, by having them come to visit for Christmas.

Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas! A Grandpa for Christmas. The Greatest Store in the World. A family lose their home at Christmas and in desperation, stay in a department store over the Christmas period. Grumpy Cat's Worst Christmas Ever. The Heart of Christmas. The Lockes are devastated when they learn their young son Dax has cancer.

But with courage, determination and faith, they give Dax one last Christmas, even if it's in October. Hank Zipzer and the Christmas Catastrophe. It is Christmas and the Zipzer family are preparing for a new baby. Mr Joy hates Christmas and wants to cancel it altogether but Hank causes a Christmas catastrophe. His catastrophe causing leads to his friends being arrested, and a Christmas tree nearly gets plummeted into a crowd. But will everything go to plan before Hank's new baby brother is born? His and Her Christmas. Rival newspaper columnists battle it out one to save his career advancement at a major newspaper, the other to save the small community newspaper who is her employer before finding romance.

It's Hogswatch on the Discworld and the Hogfather has gone missing, requiring Death to take his place while his granddaughter Susan endeavors to find out what has happened. A struggling artist working as waitress kidnaps one of her customers to bring home and meet her parents at Christmas. A hard school administrator comes to town to close down the school and falls for the charming school music teacher. A Holiday to Remember. Carolyn is leaving the big city with her daughter Jordi for her childhood village, deep in the forest. A made-for-TV sequel to theatrical original.

On Christmas Eve in , the Walton family of rural Virginia awaits the return of the family patriarch who went to look for work in a distant city. This television film led to The Waltons television series. Home for the Holidays. Four sisters return home to visit their father for Christmas, only to discover that someone is trying to kill him.

The House Without a Christmas Tree. A widower, still grieving from his wife's death, refuses to allow a Christmas tree in the home, to the dismay of his young daughter. A Scrooge-like book editor is visited by her inner child, who tries to help rekindle her sense of joy during the holidays. An aging Santa Claus struggles to prepare his cynical would-be successor to take over the job in time for Christmas.

When a young boy catches his mom kissing Santa, he decides to be as naughty as he can until he drives Santa back to the North Pole. It Came Upon the Midnight Clear. After suffering a fatal heart attack, a man Mickey Rooney is granted a brief return to life so that he can show his California-bred grandson Scott Grimes his first white Christmas in New York.

It Happened One Christmas. A young businesswoman, despondent over the circumstances of her life, contemplates suicide, but is shown the value of her life by a guardian angel, in this feminist remake of It's a Wonderful Life starring the then recently liberated Marlo Thomas. A modern "Christmas Carol" adaptation in which the ghosts of Christmas past, present, and future mistakenly visit the neighbor of the man they were supposed to teach to love Christmas.

Like Father, Like Santa. A ruthless toy tycoon who is also secretly the son of Santa Claus travels to the North Pole to put an end to an attempted coup. Love You Like Christmas. A successful advertising executive, on a cross-country trip to attend a client's wedding, is stranded in Christmas Valley, Ohio, a town in love with Christmas. But her son, needing math tutoring, makes friends with a man from Maggie's past. The Man in the Santa Claus Suit. The lives of three different men are transformed by a magical Santa Claus costume rented to them by a mysterious shopkeeper.

The Man Who Saved Christmas. Fact-based drama of toy inventor A.

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Gilbert, a pacifist toymaker who is forced by the U. A young girl helps the monsters from her storybook defeat an evil witch that has stolen their voices because they sang better at Christmas carols than she did. The Most Wonderful Time of the Year. An aging Santa Claus is ready to retire but first he must convince his son to take over his job.

Santa must pass his powers on to his chosen successor, but mistakenly passes them on to an ex con. The son of Santa Claus woos a single mom while masquerading as an ordinary man and working as a mall Santa. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure. Cousin Eddie and his family get stranded on what they think is a deserted island for Christmas in this sequel to the theatrical film. He and his father end up driving the Tree throughout the country and the tree become a national icon. A Chicago sports radio shock jock is changed by a Christmas season encounter with a year-old fan who is dying of cancer who forces him to be nice for a day.

A woman finds herself in the possession of Santa's "Naughty or Nice book" and uses it for her own advantage. The Night They Saved Christmas. An oil company dynamites in the North Pole in search of an oil field, unaware that they are endangering Santa Claus. A young boy and his new friend Clementine try to bring back the happiness of Christmas before it's too late. A ballerina is unable to perform in her dream role as The Sugar Plum Fairy due to the sudden death of her sister, which left her as her niece's guardian. Her niece becomes a ballerina herself and is invited to play Clara; the theater director is her aunt's former boyfriend who was to play the Prince in her aunt's performance.

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A woman is in serious need of a liver transplant; a complete stranger is found to be a perfect match. After the operation the two begin to have feelings for each other. Once Upon a Christmas. Santa's daughter tries to change a family so they are no longer on the Naughty list, or else Santa will cancel Christmas. Strangers get struck in a cottage during a snowstorm and realize they are drawn together. Starring Julie Andrews and James Garner. On the 2nd Day of Christmas.

With the holidays so near, Bert, a store employee, agrees to be responsible for the pair so that Patsy need not spend the holidays in social services. A divorced father and a divorced mother start to meet at Denver International Airport when picking up and sending off their children to ex-spouses for holidays. Rich Little's Christmas Carol. Comedian Rich Little plays all of the characters, using his unique skills as an impressionist to apparently fill the cast with some of Hollywood's best-known stars.

Richie Rich's Christmas Wish. After getting blamed for spoiling Christmas Richie Rich , the richest kid in the world, wishes he'd never been born. A high powered fashion photographer finds herself stranded in middle America on her way to her wedding in Aspen, Colorado. She gets a lift from a widower and his daughter, setting off a change of events that will change their lives forever. Kunta Kinte and Fiddler, from Roots , accompany their owner to another plantation at Christmas time and they learn that the son of the owner helps slaves escape.

An American Girl Holiday. Mary Class Jenny McCarthy is a highly successful business executive - who just happens to be the daughter of Santa Claus. But when her father falls ill, Mary returns to the North Pole and the life she left behind to take over for her dad and implement her innovative ideas for running Christmas. Puppy Paws, the only son of Santa Paws, does not want to follow in his father's footsteps. He then hi-tails it to Fernfield, Washington to be a normal puppy, just like Budderball who is on Santa's naughty list for eating the Thanksgiving Turkey.

Meanwhile, the icicle that holds the magic of Christmas is melting away due to children's and puppies' belief in Santa and Santa Paws dying. It is up to Puppy Paws and the Buddies to rediscover their belief in Christmas and save the holiday. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians. The Martians kidnap Santa because there is nobody on Mars to give their children presents. Santa's son, mistaken for the "Christmas Bandit", is held under house arrest two days before Christmas. Santa Claus suffers an attack of amnesia after falling out of his sleigh.

Only the innocence of a small child can save Christmas for thousands of people around the world. The Search for Santa Paws [8]. A Season for Miracles. A homeless woman and her niece and nephew attempt to outrun the authorities during the holiday season. Fact-based World War II story set on Christmas Eve, , finds a German mother and her son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. Single Santa Seeks Mrs. A high-flying career woman and single mother with no time for love or Christmas is unexpectedly wooed by Santa's son and heir, Nick who must find a wife before Christmas because his father wants to retire.

A Smoky Mountain Christmas. A singer retreats to an isolated mountain cabin for a quiet holiday, but finds seven orphaned children there. With only three days before Christmas, Nick Snowden, heir to a certain Arctic toy business, must work hard to save Christmas after someone steals Buddy the reindeer and takes him to a California zoo.

The Sons of Mistletoe. A cold businesswoman threatens to close a boys foster home during the holidays, when she returns to her home town to settle her late father's estate.

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A bumbling courier at a private adoption agency botches the delivery of a baby to its new parents in time for Christmas, when he misplaces their baby en route. An angel offers a literary agent, whose wife of ten years died just before Christmas, a chance to relive the last three days of his wife's life. To Grandmother's House We Go. Twin sisters believe their mother would be better off with a break from them for Christmas so they decide to go visit their grandmother, and their adventures along the way.

A Town Without Christmas. A child of divorcing parents writes a suicidal letter to Santa, prompting a community search. The True Meaning of Christmas Specials. A mischievous year-old boy and his irresponsible uncle almost ruin Christmas when they decide to take Santa's new high-tech sleigh for a joyride. Twice Upon a Christmas. The Ultimate Christmas Present. A girl steals a weather machine from Santa Claus to make it snow on Christmas Day, but the machine breaks, and causes an out-of-control snowstorm.

An FBI agent visits his parents for the holidays, with the waitress he's protecting posing as his girlfriend. A Very Brady Christmas. The entire Brady family manages to overcome personal obstacles to spend a happy holiday together. Alice's trip becomes more stressful when her luggage is lost and her phone is damaged, leaving her no way to find Will's family! When Angels Come to Town. A Lifetime film, in which a newly engaged couple, one Christian and the other Jewish, must survive their families meeting for the first time during Christmas.

A man returns to Wales and tries to save his late father's farm from developers by entering a prize stallion in a Christmas race. Coming of age Lifetime comedy set in - Felix Funicello and his fifth-grade class at St. Aloyius Gonzaga Parochial School have a momentous fall semester after a substitute teacher and a new student from Russia arrive.

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Competition ensues for key roles in the school's Christmas pageant. An American Christmas Carol. Bob, and especially to a live Christmas Eve show her producer has planned. Carol for Another Christmas. Scott as Ebenezer Scrooge, an old miser who makes excuses for his uncaring nature learns real compassion when three ghosts visit him on Christmas Eve. A TV movie that brought the first portrayal of Scrooge as a female, with Susan Lucci as Elizabeth "Ebbie" Scrooge, owner of a huge department store, and some of her own employees doubling as the three Christmas Spirits. A Hallmark Channel adaptation of the famous story.

Grant as Bob Cratchit. A Diva's Christmas Carol. A TV movie that premiered on VH1 , now on Lifetime , portraying Vanessa Williams in the Scrooge role as "Ebony" Scrooge, one third of a late-'80's pop trio called "Desire" and now an egotistical, arrogant, grouchy solo diva. Kelsey Grammer is Scrooge in this musical adaptation of the Dickens story. An All Dogs Christmas Carol. Animated special, based on the popular television and book franchise. Arthur and his friends hope to celebrate a perfect Christmas and other seasonal holidays, but discover that sometimes even if Christmas or their holiday of choice doesn't work out in the perfect manner they had planned, they can still have a wonderful holiday.

A Looney Tunes Christmas. Barbie tries to get to another country with her sisters for Christmas but get snowed in another town where they have to spend Christmas at a hotel. Barbie in a Christmas Carol. An adaptation of A Christmas Carol starring Barbie and friends. When all other bears sleep through Christmas, one specific bear named Ted E. Bear is curious about Christmas and discovers the true meaning of the holiday. Beauty and the Beast: When the Beast forbids the celebration of Christmas, Belle and friends show him the true meaning of the holiday in this holiday-themed followup to the animated Disney theatrical film.

Bugs Bunny's Christmas Carol. An animated adaptation of Dickens' story featuring the Looney Tunes characters, with the role of Scrooge going to Yosemite Sam. Care Bears Nutcracker Suite.