The Santa Clause

My favorite Christmas movie is The Santa Clause. The Santa Clause is a Christmas film released by Walt Disney Pictures and Hollywood Pictures, starring Tim Allen. Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) is a father who finds himself literally wearing the mantle of Santa Claus after the death of the famous Christmas figure, and contractually bound to become Santa Clause himself. Scott Calvin (Tim Allen) is an undependable, divorced father with a poor reputation of spending quality time with his son, Charlie. On Christmas Eve, when Charlie is spending the night at his father's house, they are awakened by a noise on the roof. They go outside to check the noise out, Scott can see someone on the roof. He yells at the trespasser, startling him, which causes him to fall off the roof to the snowy ground below, killing him.

Investigating, Scott and Charlie find the trespasser appears to be Santa Clause. In moments, he dies and suddenly disappears, but his suit remains behind. Searching through the suit, they find a business card stating that if something should happen to the man "Santa clause", someone should put on the suit, climb into the sleigh and the reindeer will know what to do. Climbing a ladder, they inspect the roof and find a sleigh and eight reindeer perched atop. The pair get into the sleigh and the reindeer soon liftoff with them aboard. Although he is not happy about the whole situation, Scott puts on the Santa suit to appease his son and begins delivering toys as the deer go from rooftop to rooftop.

The last stop is a seemingly deserted spot in an icy landscape (the North Pole). There Scott is informed that he is the new Santa Claus. While Scott is being argumentative about the responsibilities he seems to have inherited, the head elf, Bernard, shows him a microscopic inscription on the card found in the suit which says that upon the death of the previous occupant, whoever dons the suit assumes the identity of Santa Claus and all the responsibilities that go with it, giving up his previous identity in the process. This is, in fact, the "Santa Clause," as summarized by Bernard: "You put on the suit, you're the big guy.

The Santa Clause has been my favorite Christmas movie since I was younger and it is like a tradition for me to yearly watch this movie around Christmas time. =)