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The Christmas Chronicles
The Christmas Chronicles

The Christmas Chronicles

2018 104 min ★ 7.2 Comedy, Adventure, Family, Fantasy

Siblings Kate and Teddy try to prove Santa Claus is real, but when they accidentally cause his sleigh to crash, they have to save Christmas.

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Cast

Darby Camp

Darby Camp

Kate Pierce

Judah Lewis

Judah Lewis

Teddy Pierce

Kurt Russell

Kurt Russell

Santa Claus

Martin Roach

Martin Roach

Dave Poveda

Lamorne Morris

Lamorne Morris

Mikey Jameson

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Claire Pierce

Oliver Hudson

Oliver Hudson

Doug Pierce

Tony Nappo

Tony Nappo

Charlie Plummer

Vella Lovell

Vella Lovell

Wendy

Lauren Collins

Lauren Collins

Woman at Another Table

Details

Director

Clay Kaytis

Tagline

"Santa's in town early this year."

Status

Released

Original Language

EN

Production

1492 Pictures, Madhouse Entertainment, Ocean Blue Entertainment

Reviews

K

Kamurai

November 30, 2020

★ 6/10

Decent watch at best, probably won't watch again, and can't recommend. Perhaps it's just that I don't like Kurt Russell and him injecting all his "Russellness" into Santa Claus ruins the magic of the character for me, but I really feel this portrayal of Santa Claus is lacking and borderline inappropriate. While the over all story structure and script are fine, there are just odd choices thro...

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r96sk

December 6, 2020

★ 8/10

Fun film, perfectly suitable for the festive period. I do enjoy Kurt Russell, I like most of the films that I've seen him in and this is another one to add to the list. He's great in the lead role, very much carrying the film. The other actors could've been better cast, but are still passable in their respective roles. There are also cameos for Goldie Hawn and Steven Van Zandt. The special e...

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Peter McGinn

December 19, 2020

★ 10/10

Pretty standard fare mostly. Dad died, son going off the rails, daughter still believes, let’s haul Santa in to help. (Which he does by letting them help him.) I found myself poking holes in the plot, which is a silly thing to do anyway in a Christmas fantasy film, such as If Santa can make presents magically appear in the jail, why can’t he get himself out of the jail without help? But the write...

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Horseface

September 9, 2022

★ 1/10

Might be good, not sure. This is one of those films that punish you for having bought an HDR TV. I'm not sure what's going on here, because someone decided to turn down the brightness to 20%. It's possible there's a good movie here, and I do love Kurt Russell, but unfortunately I was unable to watch it, because on a 4k OLED HDR TV, this was just a dark gray mass of pixels moving around.

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