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Santa Claus: The Movie (known on-screen as simply Santa Claus) is a 1985 British/American Christmas film starring Dudley Moore and John Lithgow. It is the last major fantasy film produced by the Paris-based father-and-son production team of Alexander and Ilya Salkind. The film was directed by Jeannot Szwarc and released in North America on November 27, 1985 by TriStar Pictures. The 2005 DVD release was released by Anchor Bay Entertainment, now known as Starz Home Entertainment, under license from the film's current owner, StudioCanal; however, the current, 25th Anniversary home video release (which also now includes Blu-ray) is by Lionsgate Home Entertainment, again under StudioCanal's license.
Santa Claus: The Movie is a straightforward attempt to explore the mysteries of Santa Claus with the key objective being to answer some of the basic questions many children have about the Santa Claus mythos, such as how Santa's reindeer fly, how he and his wife made it to the North Pole, how Santa ascends chimneys, among other things.
The film chronicles the origins of Santa Claus (David Huddleston), who, along with his wife Anya (Judy Cornwell), goes from being a simple working man to becoming an international icon of Christmas. At the same time, the film also tells a contemporary story in which one of Santa's elves (alternately referred to as the "Vendequm" onscreen), a visionary named Patch (Dudley Moore), sets out to employ Santa's toymaking methods on his own, unaware that he might be ruining the magic of Christmas in the process.
The first half of this film, set hundreds of years ago, shows how the old man who eventually became Santa Claus was given immortality and chosen to deliver toys to all the children of the world. The second half moves into the modern era, in which Patch, the inventing elf, strikes out on his own and falls in with an evil toy manufacturer who wants to corner the market and eliminate Santa Claus.
Plot
Somewhere in the 14th century, Claus (David Huddleston) is a peasant woodcutter in his mid-50s who, with his wife Anya (Judy Cornwell), delivers his gifts to the children of a certain village. One night, Claus, Anya and their reindeer, Donner and Blitzen, are rescued from certain death in a blizzard, only to be transported to the vast "ice mountains, way up at the top of the world." Their expected arrival is heralded with the appearance of several elves, or – as Claus's people call them in their legends – the Vendequm, led by the venerable and wise elf named Dooley (John Barrard).
The Clauses also meet Patch (Dudley Moore), an inventive elf who has designs for such future items like plumbing and an alarm clock, and Puffy (Anthony O'Donnell). Introduced to the mass workshop where the elves construct endless amounts of toys for the world's children, Claus learns that it is his destiny to distribute those toys on Christmas Eve. After months of preparation, Christmas Eve arrives and Claus is granted the name "Santa Claus" by the Ancient One (Burgess Meredith), the eldest of the elves. Santa's yearly routine of delivering his gifts begins when he uses his modified sleigh and six additional reindeer to accompany Donner and Blitzen.
When all eight deer are joined together, they can fly by eating an otherworldly reindeer feed. Two separate musical montages follow, each depicting Santa delivering toys across the centuries, and demonstrating how a great deal of the mythos around him is established.
Eventually, the film moves to the late 20th century. Santa is becoming increasingly tired by the workload of toys he must deliver, combined with the ever-growing population of the planet. At that point, Anya suggests that Santa should have an assistant. Patch and Puffy are selected as candidates, and both their ideas are compared in a competition. A third musical montage takes us through the competition, which Patch ultimately wins through his invention of an automated manufacturing machine.
Several nights later, on Christmas Eve, Santa meets up with a homeless boy named Joe (Christian Fitzpatrick), with whom he immediately bonds, ultimately inviting the 10-year-old along for the night ride. During the flight, Santa tempts the reindeer into performing an aerial stunt dubbed the "SuperDuper Looper" in which the reindeer attempt to perform a 360° degree circle in midair, but, as often happens each year, the maneuver fails when Donner's aerial dizziness gets the better of him.
Santa and Joe unintentionally awaken a 9-year-old girl named Cornelia (Carrie Kei Heim), who had secretly spent some days befriending Joe. On Christmas morning, Patch is dismayed when his toys break and are returned to the workshop. Resigning his post as Santa's assistant, the reluctant Patch leaves the North Pole.
Patch goes to New York City where he meets B.Z. (John Lithgow), Cornelia's step-uncle (their specific relationship is never explained) – a greedy and scheming toymaking executive who is on the verge of losing his company due to the shoddy products he has made. Patch offers to help him make toys, believing at first that his toys are successful when he witnesses them being removed quickly from shops, although they are actually being recalled.
Patch uses the ingredient from the reindeer feed to create a lollipop that can make people float in midair, and it soon becomes quite popular among children, making Santa feel unwanted. B.Z. then manufactures candy canes using the ingredient, but is horrified to discover that a batch of the stuff will explode when exposed to extreme heat. On discovering this news, B.Z. resolves to keep this information a secret, lest he be possibly arrested. He captures and imprisons Joe when he finds him eavesdropping on him and his head of Research & Development, Dr. Eric Towzer (Jeffrey Kramer).
Patch later finds and frees a bound and gagged Joe and decides to return to the North Pole with him, when he sees a carved toy resembling himself, an "elf-portrait", given to Joe by Santa. The two friends buckle themselves into the incredible Patchmobile, which they have stuffed with loads and loads of the candy canes. The NYPD then go to arrest B.Z. after Cornelia alerts them of her uncle's crimes, but he eats some of the candy canes and finds himself floating in midair, eventually disappearing far, far up into the sky.
Having summoned him with an incomplete letter, Cornelia and Santa now pursue Patch and Joe until the Patchmobile explodes, the result of the candy canes' exposure to heat. Their only hope of saving them now is to attempt the aforementioned "Super Duper Looper". Finally, with Patch reconciled with his fellow elves, Joe is welcomed into the Clauses' family and Cornelia is invited to stay for a year. Dooley reacts to the addition of Joe and Cornelia by commenting: "As if I don't have enough to do! Now, I'm going to have to be a schoolteacher!" To which both children gasp: "School?!"
The film ends with the inhabitants of the North Pole celebrating the triumph with a joyous dance party; the film's final images are of B.Z. floating away into space along with the remains of the Patchmobile. With no way of getting down in spite of his pleas, he was doomed to die in orbit.
CAST
* Dudley Moore as Patch, a creative, inventive elf whose passion for and faith in the 20th Century is put to the test throughout the story.
* John Lithgow as B.Z., the main antagonist - an unscrupulous toy manufacturer who uses Patch in a larger scheme to take over Christmas.
* David Huddleston as Santa Claus, the Christmas figure who delivers presents to every child in the world on Christmas Eve.
* Judy Cornwell as Anya Claus, Santa's caring and supportive wife.
* Burgess Meredith as the Ancient One, the oldest and wisest of the elves.
* Jeffrey Kramer as Dr. Eric Towzer, B.Z.'s head of Research & Development.
* Christian Fitzpatrick as Joe, a homeless 10-year-old boy living on the hard streets of New York who befriends Santa.
* Carrie Kei Heim as Cornelia, B.Z.'s 9-year-old stepniece, who becomes Joe's conscience and best friend.
* John Barrard as Dooley, Santa's #2 at the North Pole.
* Anthony O'Donnell as Puffy, a bearded elf.
* Melvyn Hayes as Goober, head of the Sewing Department.
* Don Estelle as Groot, the elves' Senior Chef.
* Tim Stern as Boog, first of Patch's three best friends.
* Peter O'Farrell as Honka, second of Patch's three best friends.
* Christopher Ryan as Vout, third of Patch's three best friends.
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
Produced by Pierre Spengler
Ilya Salkind
Written by David Newman
Leslie Newman (story)
David Newman (screenplay)
source: wiki and imdb
Santa Claus: The Movie is a straightforward attempt to explore the mysteries of Santa Claus with the key objective being to answer some of the basic questions many children have about the Santa Claus mythos, such as how Santa's reindeer fly, how he and his wife made it to the North Pole, how Santa ascends chimneys, among other things.
The film chronicles the origins of Santa Claus (David Huddleston), who, along with his wife Anya (Judy Cornwell), goes from being a simple working man to becoming an international icon of Christmas. At the same time, the film also tells a contemporary story in which one of Santa's elves (alternately referred to as the "Vendequm" onscreen), a visionary named Patch (Dudley Moore), sets out to employ Santa's toymaking methods on his own, unaware that he might be ruining the magic of Christmas in the process.
The first half of this film, set hundreds of years ago, shows how the old man who eventually became Santa Claus was given immortality and chosen to deliver toys to all the children of the world. The second half moves into the modern era, in which Patch, the inventing elf, strikes out on his own and falls in with an evil toy manufacturer who wants to corner the market and eliminate Santa Claus.
Plot
Somewhere in the 14th century, Claus (David Huddleston) is a peasant woodcutter in his mid-50s who, with his wife Anya (Judy Cornwell), delivers his gifts to the children of a certain village. One night, Claus, Anya and their reindeer, Donner and Blitzen, are rescued from certain death in a blizzard, only to be transported to the vast "ice mountains, way up at the top of the world." Their expected arrival is heralded with the appearance of several elves, or – as Claus's people call them in their legends – the Vendequm, led by the venerable and wise elf named Dooley (John Barrard).
The Clauses also meet Patch (Dudley Moore), an inventive elf who has designs for such future items like plumbing and an alarm clock, and Puffy (Anthony O'Donnell). Introduced to the mass workshop where the elves construct endless amounts of toys for the world's children, Claus learns that it is his destiny to distribute those toys on Christmas Eve. After months of preparation, Christmas Eve arrives and Claus is granted the name "Santa Claus" by the Ancient One (Burgess Meredith), the eldest of the elves. Santa's yearly routine of delivering his gifts begins when he uses his modified sleigh and six additional reindeer to accompany Donner and Blitzen.
When all eight deer are joined together, they can fly by eating an otherworldly reindeer feed. Two separate musical montages follow, each depicting Santa delivering toys across the centuries, and demonstrating how a great deal of the mythos around him is established.
Eventually, the film moves to the late 20th century. Santa is becoming increasingly tired by the workload of toys he must deliver, combined with the ever-growing population of the planet. At that point, Anya suggests that Santa should have an assistant. Patch and Puffy are selected as candidates, and both their ideas are compared in a competition. A third musical montage takes us through the competition, which Patch ultimately wins through his invention of an automated manufacturing machine.
Several nights later, on Christmas Eve, Santa meets up with a homeless boy named Joe (Christian Fitzpatrick), with whom he immediately bonds, ultimately inviting the 10-year-old along for the night ride. During the flight, Santa tempts the reindeer into performing an aerial stunt dubbed the "SuperDuper Looper" in which the reindeer attempt to perform a 360° degree circle in midair, but, as often happens each year, the maneuver fails when Donner's aerial dizziness gets the better of him.
Santa and Joe unintentionally awaken a 9-year-old girl named Cornelia (Carrie Kei Heim), who had secretly spent some days befriending Joe. On Christmas morning, Patch is dismayed when his toys break and are returned to the workshop. Resigning his post as Santa's assistant, the reluctant Patch leaves the North Pole.
Patch goes to New York City where he meets B.Z. (John Lithgow), Cornelia's step-uncle (their specific relationship is never explained) – a greedy and scheming toymaking executive who is on the verge of losing his company due to the shoddy products he has made. Patch offers to help him make toys, believing at first that his toys are successful when he witnesses them being removed quickly from shops, although they are actually being recalled.
Patch uses the ingredient from the reindeer feed to create a lollipop that can make people float in midair, and it soon becomes quite popular among children, making Santa feel unwanted. B.Z. then manufactures candy canes using the ingredient, but is horrified to discover that a batch of the stuff will explode when exposed to extreme heat. On discovering this news, B.Z. resolves to keep this information a secret, lest he be possibly arrested. He captures and imprisons Joe when he finds him eavesdropping on him and his head of Research & Development, Dr. Eric Towzer (Jeffrey Kramer).
Patch later finds and frees a bound and gagged Joe and decides to return to the North Pole with him, when he sees a carved toy resembling himself, an "elf-portrait", given to Joe by Santa. The two friends buckle themselves into the incredible Patchmobile, which they have stuffed with loads and loads of the candy canes. The NYPD then go to arrest B.Z. after Cornelia alerts them of her uncle's crimes, but he eats some of the candy canes and finds himself floating in midair, eventually disappearing far, far up into the sky.
Having summoned him with an incomplete letter, Cornelia and Santa now pursue Patch and Joe until the Patchmobile explodes, the result of the candy canes' exposure to heat. Their only hope of saving them now is to attempt the aforementioned "Super Duper Looper". Finally, with Patch reconciled with his fellow elves, Joe is welcomed into the Clauses' family and Cornelia is invited to stay for a year. Dooley reacts to the addition of Joe and Cornelia by commenting: "As if I don't have enough to do! Now, I'm going to have to be a schoolteacher!" To which both children gasp: "School?!"
The film ends with the inhabitants of the North Pole celebrating the triumph with a joyous dance party; the film's final images are of B.Z. floating away into space along with the remains of the Patchmobile. With no way of getting down in spite of his pleas, he was doomed to die in orbit.
CAST
* Dudley Moore as Patch, a creative, inventive elf whose passion for and faith in the 20th Century is put to the test throughout the story.
* John Lithgow as B.Z., the main antagonist - an unscrupulous toy manufacturer who uses Patch in a larger scheme to take over Christmas.
* David Huddleston as Santa Claus, the Christmas figure who delivers presents to every child in the world on Christmas Eve.
* Judy Cornwell as Anya Claus, Santa's caring and supportive wife.
* Burgess Meredith as the Ancient One, the oldest and wisest of the elves.
* Jeffrey Kramer as Dr. Eric Towzer, B.Z.'s head of Research & Development.
* Christian Fitzpatrick as Joe, a homeless 10-year-old boy living on the hard streets of New York who befriends Santa.
* Carrie Kei Heim as Cornelia, B.Z.'s 9-year-old stepniece, who becomes Joe's conscience and best friend.
* John Barrard as Dooley, Santa's #2 at the North Pole.
* Anthony O'Donnell as Puffy, a bearded elf.
* Melvyn Hayes as Goober, head of the Sewing Department.
* Don Estelle as Groot, the elves' Senior Chef.
* Tim Stern as Boog, first of Patch's three best friends.
* Peter O'Farrell as Honka, second of Patch's three best friends.
* Christopher Ryan as Vout, third of Patch's three best friends.
Directed by Jeannot Szwarc
Produced by Pierre Spengler
Ilya Salkind
Written by David Newman
Leslie Newman (story)
David Newman (screenplay)
source: wiki and imdb
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