The Year Without a Santa Claus

TV Movie
2006
Not Rated
1h 25m

IMDb RATING

3.7/10

1.1K

YOUR RATING

John Goodman, Harvey Fierstein, and Michael McKean in The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006)

Comedy Family Fantasy

Thoroughly disgruntled, Santa (Goodman) opts to take a year off from delivering presents, until a young man helps him rediscover the meaning of the holidays.Thoroughly disgruntled, Santa (Goodman) opts to take a year off from delivering presents, until a young man helps him rediscover the meaning of the holidays.Thoroughly disgruntled, Santa (Goodman) opts to take a year off from delivering presents, until a young man helps him rediscover the meaning of the holidays.

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IMDb RATING

3.7/10

1.1K

YOUR RATING

See production info at IMDbPro

Awards
- 2 nominations total

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Trivia
During filming, Chris Kattan contracted conjunctivitis, (pink eye) visible in many shots despite attempts to obscure his eye with camera angles and props, and passed it to several cast and crew members. Since he passed it on to cast & crew members, the type he had was "bacterial conjunctivitis" because "allergic conjunctivitis" is not contagious.

Connections
Featured in Hewy's Animated Movie Reviews: The Top 10 Characters of the Rankin/Bass Holiday Specials (2010)

Soundtracks
The Snow Miser Song
Performed by Michael McKean
Original Music Composed by Maury Laws
Original Lyrics by Jules Bass
From the 1974 TV special, The Year Without a Santa Claus (1974)

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Featured review

1/10

One of the worst efforts ever

A truly depressing piece of dreck, this live action version of the Christmas classic fails on so many levels it's almost funny. (And those are the only laughs you'll get out of this.) It's a shame the movie studios all closed down their TV movie units in the 80s because TV movies need all the help they can get.

All those modern, "hip" touches are rife with jokes that soar over the kid's heads, but sadly not the adults. The humor is, befitting the times, crude and boorish and the story is lame. Bad acting, contrived sentimental situations and flat photography all contribute to a bad time had by all. The heads at NBC must have been high on cough syrup to even think this looked like it would be any good.

Shove this one in the vault and never let it see the light of day again.