Summary
A young father struggling to make ends meet on a Depression-era salary can't afford to buy his 5-year-old daughter what she's expecting Santa Claus to bring her for Christmas. The surprise, uplifting ending is guaranteed to put even the most embittered Scrooge into the Christmas spirit.
Good for
- Date night
- Family movie night
- Friends night
Skip it if
- You want dark or edgy material
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At a glance
Critics vs audiences
Only audience scores so far
Audiences 48GoodWatch 54
IMDb5.0
Audience score45%
Running time
56 min
Shorter than 9 in 10 dramas, −53 min on the typical 109
typical 10956Half of all dramas run 98–125 min.
Reach
Streams in 131 countries
+121Released
2005
November 22, 2005
21 years ago
Genre
DramaLanguage
English
Original language
Directing · 1
- Beth Brickell Director
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