https://www.imdb.com/title/tt0111070/Title: The Santa Clause (1994)
Genres: Comedy, Drama, Family, Fantasy
Description: La notte della vigilia di Natale Babbo Natale cade dal tetto; tutto ammaccato, non può fare il suo viaggio notturno e rischia di deludere i bambini che in tutto il mondo aspettano i suoi doni. Serve al più presto un sostituto: toccherà a Scott, neo divorziato e padre un po' imbranato. L'ostacolo più difficile da superare è in realtà lo scetticismo della ex moglie e dello psicologo. Modesta favoletta piena di zucchero con qualche momento d'ilarità: la parte della trasformazione del giovanotto in un Babbo Natale che si rispetti, con pancione e barba bianca. Il resto serve solo a confermare una tradizione hollywoodiana: cioè che i film con Babbo Natale siano in gernere i più brutti, o quantomeno i più melensi.
Divorcee Scott Calvin is disgusted to learn that his ex and her husband have tried - and failed - to break it easy to their 6-year-old son Charlie that Santa isn't real. On Christmas Eve, Scott reads The Night Before Christmas... then receives an unexpected visitor on his roof. When he's startled by Scott's calling out and falls, the Santa impersonator disappears, leaving only an 8-reindeer sleigh and a suit with instructions to put it on if he's involved in an accident. Scott does, and is transported around the town dropping gifts through chimneys until he's taken to the North Pole and informed by a group who claim they're elves that he is now Santa. Charlie is proud of his dad's new job, though Scott's convinced it's a dream. Until his hair turns white, his beard refuses to stay shaved, he gains weight inexplicably, even for his sudden love of junk food... Now he's accepted it, there's just one problem: how to keep it secret from his disbelieving family?
Director: John Pasquin
Writer: Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick
Actors: Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson, Eric Lloyd
Rating: 6.4
Votes: 80533
Rated: PG
Runtime: 97 min