A mall Santa Claus promises a boy that he will reunite his parents.A mall Santa Claus promises a boy that he will reunite his parents.A mall Santa Claus promises a boy that he will reunite his parents.
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Lucy DeVito
- June
- (as Lucy Devito)
Bonnie Discepolo
- Woman in Bar
- (as Bonnie-Kathleen Ryan)
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Did you know
- TriviaMelissa Joan Hart and Alimi Ballard previously worked together on Sabrina the Teenage Witch (1996). Ballard also guest starred on Hart's hit ABC family sitcom Melissa & Joey (2010).
- GoofsWhen Carol chastises her contractors at 3:30 for what she implies is their excessively-long lunch break, the foreman--the fellow with the chopsticks--has a near-full plate of food, belying the fact that this would have been a long lunch break and he should have eaten that much of his food.
- ConnectionsReferences Alien (1979)
- SoundtracksDo You Hear What I Hear
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The con is that its not the movie you are expecting to see
The story revolves around con artist Nick DeMarco (Barry Watson) who is forced to take a Santa job at a department store (sound familiar?) after getting out of jail. During his Santa stint, he promises a kid that he (Santa) will bring his estranged parents back together by Christmas. Nick gets chastised for making the promise and he has to use all of his con-artist skills to make good on Santa's word. Along the way he falls in love with the kid's mom (Melissa Sagemiller). It sounds like the typical rom-com formula Christmas storyline
..but it's not.
Don't let the first 15-ish minutes of the movie fool you. It's after Nick/Santa makes the promise to the kid that the movie takes a sharp turn from lame comedy to drama and becomes something very different. If you make it to this point in the movie, it will unfold as a serious story about a con finding self-redemption through the rebuilding of a broken family.
Don't let the first 15-ish minutes of the movie fool you. It's after Nick/Santa makes the promise to the kid that the movie takes a sharp turn from lame comedy to drama and becomes something very different. If you make it to this point in the movie, it will unfold as a serious story about a con finding self-redemption through the rebuilding of a broken family.
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- Dec 24, 2014
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