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Article: Movies ;Miracle': You Gotta Believe!
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- The Washington Post
- Article date:
- November 18, 1994
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Santa Claus is drunk. It's Thanksgiving Day, and just as the
annual parade is about to begin, he gets tangled up in his whip,
tipping his sleigh backward onto his head. Dorey Walker (Elizabeth
Perkins), the Cole's Department Store executive-in-charge, can't
believe her eyes. If she doesn't do something fast and find a new
Santa, the tender eyes of millions of kids will moisten with
disappointment.
Of course, Santa - the real Santa - would never let such a
thing happen. If there were a real Santa Claus, that is. This is
the debate at the heart of "Miracle on 34th Street," John Hughes's
surprisingly satisfying update of the 1947 Christmas perennial.
Strange as it may seem, Hughes and his ...