The Christmas Star

The Christmas Star

16.4. 23:37
FMH Family
93 minutes
1986
Drama / Family
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Horace McNickle (Edward Asner) is a two-time felon serving prison time for counterfeiting. On the week before Christmas, he escapes from prison dressed as Santa Claus due to his uncanny resemblence to St. Nick resulting from his long white beard and heavyset features. McNickle hides out from the police in a nearby suburban neighborhood where he is befriended and helped by two local children who think he is the real Santa Claus. McNickle takes advantage of the kids naive ness to help him get his counterfeit money hidden somewhere in a local department store while he develops kind-hearted feelings for his two con victims that make him slowly understand the true nature of Christmas.

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1986
Drama / Family

Horace McNickle (Edward Asner) is a two-time felon serving prison time for counterfeiting. On the week before Christmas, he escapes from prison dressed as Santa Claus due to his uncanny resemblence to St. Nick resulting from his long white beard and heavyset features. McNickle hides out from the police in a nearby suburban neighborhood where he is befriended and helped by two local children who think he is the real Santa Claus. McNickle takes advantage of the kids naive ness to help him get his counterfeit money hidden somewhere in a local department store while he develops kind-hearted feelings for his two con victims that make him slowly understand the true nature of Christmas.

Creators

Alan Shapiro, Carol Dysinger

Cast

Alan North, Frank C. Turner, Jerry Wasserman, Philip Bruns, René Auberjonois, Ed Asner, William S. Taylor, Claire Vardiel, Don Thompson, Linda Darlow, Robyn Stevan, Susan Tyrrell, Fred Gwynne, Lorraine Foreman, David Longworth, Jim Metzler, Lillian Carlson, Nicolas Van Burek, Anthony Holland, Karen Landry, Vicki Wauchope, Peter Bibby, David Glyn-Jones, Joseph Golland, Russell Hunter, John Payne
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