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Miracle on 34th Street

At the Macy’s Department Store Thanksgiving

Day parade, the actor playing Santa is discovered to be drunk by a whiskered

old man. Doris Walker, the no nonsense special events director, persuades the

old man to take his place. The old man proves to be a sensation and is quickly

recruited to be the store Santa at the main Macy’s outlet. While he is

successful, Ms. Walker learns that he calls himself Kris Kringle and he claims

to be the actual Santa Claus.





Despite reassurances by Kringle’s doctor

that he is harmless, Doris still has misgivings, especially when she has

cynically trained herself, and especially her daughter, Susan, to reject all

notions of belief and fantasy. And yet, people, especially Susan, begin to

notice there is something special about Kris and his determination to advance

the true spirit of Christmas amidst the rampant commercialism around him and

succeeding in improbable ways. When a raucous conflict with the store’s cruelly

incompetent psychologist erupts, Kris finds himself held at Bellevue where, in

despair, he deliberates fails a mental examination to ensure his commitment.





All seems lost until Doris’ friend, Fred

Gaily, reassure Kris of his worth and agrees to represent him in the fight to

secure his release. To achieve that, Fred arranges a formal hearing in which he

argues that Kris is sane because he is in fact Santa Claus. What ensues is a

bizarre hearing in which people’s beliefs are reexamined and put to the test,

but even so, it’s going to take a miracle for Kris to win.

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