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10/11/2011 Drama, Animation, Family, Comedy 1h 37m
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Ever wonder how 2 Billion presents get delivered all in 1 night?

Overview

For hundreds of years, the Claus family has delegated the title "Santa" to a chosen few of its members, which can be passed down upon retirement. Each Christmas, Santa and his vast army of highly trained elves produce gifts and distribute them around the world in a one-night high-tech operation. However, when one of 600 million children to receive a gift from Santa on Christmas Eve is missed, it is deemed ‘acceptable’ to all but one—Arthur Claus, the current Santa’s misfit son deemed ineligible for the title, who executes an unauthorised rookie mission to get the last present halfway around the globe before dawn on Christmas morning.

  1. Sarah Smith

    Director

Top billed cast

  1. James McAvoy

    Arthur (voice)

  2. Hugh Laurie

    Steve (voice)

  3. Bill Nighy

    Grandsanta (voice)

  4. Jim Broadbent

    Santa (voice)

  5. Imelda Staunton

    Mrs Santa (voice)

  6. Ashley Jensen

    Bryony (voice)

  7. Marc Wootton

    Peter (voice)

  8. Laura Linney

    North Pole Computer (voice)

  9. Eva Longoria

    Chief De Silva (voice)

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Reviews

A review by CinemaSerf
Written by CinemaSerf on 2022-12-24
It is actually quite hard to find innovative ways to tell Santa stories now, but this one does do quite well on that score. It all centres on Santa's now almost entirely automated delivery process using a sleigh clearly inspired by the starship "Enterprise". Horror of horrors, though, when the youngest member of the Claus family - the eponymous "Arthur" - discovers that one young girl isn't going to get her expertly wrapped bicycle! His dad "Steve" is content to put it down to a technical glitch, and his grandad (the sitting Santa) is too tired to bother, too. It falls to "Grand Santa", "Arthu...read the rest
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Status
Released

Original Language
English

Budget
$10,000,000.00

Revenue
$151,300,000.00

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