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A Different Kind of Christmas(1996)
Status: Released
Date: 1996-12-09
46%
8 Votes
Time: 1h 30m
Overview:
When you're the city attorney you don't need the kinds of problems that her father was giving her. After her mother died, her father began doing his "Santa Schtick," as she called it, much more intensely... which meant that he turned his home into a kind of year-round Santa Claus castle where children of all ages could come to see the wonderful presents and no child ever left without a gift.
Languages: English.
Countries:
United States of America
ProductionCompanies:
Hearst Entertainment Productions
Carroll Newman Productions
Movie: A Different Kind of Christmas
Top 10 Billed Cast
Shelley Long
Elizabeth Gates
Barry Bostwick
Frank Mallory
Richard K. Olsen
Henry
Nancy McLoughlin
Susan
Michael E. Knight
Alan Schaefer
Bruce Kirby
Santa
Keith Flippen
Michael
Rebecca Koon
Marguerite
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Overview
When you're the city attorney you don't need the kinds of problems that her father was giving her. After her mother died, her father began doing his "Santa Schtick," as she called it, much more intensely... which meant that he turned his home into a kind of year-round Santa Claus castle where children of all ages could come to see the wonderful presents and no child ever left without a gift.
Release Date
1996-12-09
Average
4.6
Rating:
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