The Christmas Chronicles - 2018

 We see a family’s past Christmases from 2006 to 2017, then present 2018 sees the family without the father. The little girl is almost 11, Kate, and her brother Teddy… luckily has no heart to tell her theres no Santa. She sneaks out to follow his brother and films him stealing a car with his friends, but she doesn’t rat him out to mom. On Christmas Eve, mom has to go to work, to the hospital, and orders Teddy to stay home with Kate.

Kate watches all videos and sees an arm that she’s sure belongs to Santa so she wants to film him again and together with her brother they make it. There’s also the sleigh and she jumps in. Teddy follows her. When she touches him, Santa is shocked mid-flight, she falls down and is of course saved, and they almost hit a plane. The sleigh crashes down, the bag full of gifts is lost, they’re stranded in Chicago, and when people lose the Christmas spirit bad things happen, disasters in the world. Santa also lost his magic hat so he can only walk. In a diner, he asks for a drive but nobody believes him, and they have to flee They take a car, that had already been stolen, and there’s a car race against the police while Kate finds the reindeers. Santa is arrested while the kids ride flying reindeers in search of the elves to save Christmas.

The kids find the bag and Kate enters it, and it’s huge inside and she finds the elves.

Santa starts a concert in his cell - he still has enough magic to come up with the presents he wants from his empty pockets … :)

Some criminals kidnap Teddy and take his bag of presents, but there’s coal in every box. Then elves come out, lots of them, and the criminals flee in a panic. The elves give Santa another hat, after repairing the sleigh, and they’re all back together.

They have merely an hour until dawn, though, so the kids help, Teddy rides the sleigh and Kate reads the addresses and gives the presents to Santa. From State to State they do it all.

The elves too help deliver the presents.

At dawn, the kids are back home and Santa gifts Teddy his hat - he didn’t really need it, he’s Santa and magical on his own. 

Home is all decorated and mom is happy.

Santa - Kurt Russell

Teddy - Judah Lewis

Kate - Darby Camp

Claire - Kimberly Williams-Paisley

and

Mrs Claus - Goldie Hawn

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