- Film Review
- Reviewed By Tom Hutchinson
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3 out of 5
Richard Attenborough plays Kriss Kringle in this remake of the classic 1947 fantasy. In the original, Edmund Gwenn gave an Oscar-winning performance as the elderly gent whose behaviour while working as a department-store Santa suggests that he believes he really is Father Christmas. Here Attenborough positively twinkles in the role in an attempt to convince moppet Mara Wilson, and the audience, that he is a living legend. Although the film as a whole is a much more glamorous affair, and Wilson and Elizabeth Perkins as her mother are undoubtedly charming, it does lack some of the magic of the original.
Plot Summary
Christmas fantasy starring Richard Attenborough and Elizabeth Perkins.Going against the wishes of her divorced mother, a sceptical young girl asks a mysterious department store Santa Claus for the family she has always wanted.
Cast and crew
Cast
- Kriss Kringle
- Richard Attenborough
- Dorey Walker
- Elizabeth Perkins
- Bryan Bedford
- Dylan McDermott
- Ed Collins
- J T Walsh
- Susan Walker
- Mara Wilson
- Jack Duff
- James Remar
- Alberta Leonard
- Jane Leeves
- Shellhammer
- Simon Jones
- C F Cole
- William Windom
- Judge Harper
- Robert Prosky
- Tony Falacchi
- Jack McGee
Crew
- Director
- Les Mayfield
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