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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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