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save Christmas from a dastardly toy tycoon, played by John Lithgow. Good fun.
“It’s A Wonderful Life” (Public Domain)—This is director Frank Capra’s sentimental classic. In it, Jimmy Stewart plays a despondent man who’s about to kill himself on Christmas Eve. However, before he does the deed, an eccentric angel shows him what life would have been like in his hometown if he had never been bom. The message is very life-affirming.
“Miracle On 34th Street” (Playhouse Video)—Is Santa Claus real? Don’t answer until you see this venerable old favorite of a yuletide film. In it, Macy’s department store hires what it thinks is an actor as Santa, but gets quite a bit more than it had in mind. As in, uh, the real thing.
“A Christmas Story” (MGM/UA)—The scene is the Midwest in the early 1940’s, a young boy wants a Daisy air rifle for Christmas, and it’s all sweet sen'.'2 timents from the nation’s heartland from there. Based on the short story “In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash.”
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