The Year Without a Santa Claus (2006) (TV)

Director:

Ron Underwood

Writers (WGA):

Larry Wilson (teleplay) and
Tom Martin (teleplay) ...

Release Date:

11 December 2006 (USA)

Genre:

Comedy | Family | Fantasy

Plot:

Thoroughly disgruntled, Santa (Goodman) opts to take a year off from delivering presents, until a young man helps his rediscover the meaning of the holidays. |

Plot Keywords:

Remake | Christmas | Santa Claus | Based On Cartoon | Live Action Remake

Awards:

2 nominations

Cast

Mitchel Baker
Hunter Ballard	...	School Boy
Aaron Beelner	...	Ring Announcer
David Blackwell	...	Dr. Broadbeam
Dodie Brown	...	Festival booth owner
Marcus Lyle Brown	...	Officer Jefferson
Delta Burke	...	Mrs. Claus
Matthew Carroll	...	Dog catcher
Mellinda Craig	...	Wife of Officer Varmit
Namaiya Cunningham	...	Toddler at festival
John F. Daniel	...	Christmas Festival Worker
Brooke Devenney	...	Craft booth worker in festival
Laine Dubroc	...	Festival Goer
Fred Ellis	...	Drunk santa (as Fred E. Ellis)
Dustin Estis	...	North Pole Elf
Dorcas Everette
Harvey Fierstein	...	Heat Miser
Travis Fontenot	...	Festival Goer
Chris Freihofer	...	Sparky's Attorney
Eric Gipson	...	Power Elf #1
John Goodman	...	Santa Claus
Lara Grice	...	Rachel Thistlewhite
Eddie Griffin	...	Jingle
Mya Holloway	...	Toddler girl in snow at festival
Parker Holloway	...	Boy with clown at festival
Rebecca Holloway	...	Mom at arcade - Token Town
Denver Houghton	...	Child in Gift Wrapping Booth
Pamela Houghton	...	Gift wrap booth owner
Deborah R. Jones	...	Journalist
Carol Kane	...	Mother Nature
Chris Kattan	...	Sparky
Lori Knighton	...	Festival visitor
Carson Kressley	...	Elf Costumer
Daniel Lachman	...	Southtown Citizen
Jack LaLanne	...	Hercules
Amber Dawn Landrum	...	Blonde Jingle Jangle Girl
Chelsea Lewis	...	Girl at festival
Daniel Magill	...	Elf
Mike Martindale	...	Festival / Restaurant Patron
Jay Martin	...	Christmas Festival Kid
John McConnell	...	Dog catcher
Michael McKean	...	Snow Miser
Yolanda Mercadel	...	John Goodmen / Eddie Grifin
Dylan Minnette	...	Iggy Thistlewhite
Steven Miramontz	...	Pinstripe Elf
Noelle Monteleone	...	Gleam
Rebecca Newman	...	Festival shopper
Ashley-Anne Parker	...	Token Town Employee / Festival Patron
Tina Parker	...	Artemis
Andrea Powell	...	Julie Kadlubowski-Sanchez
Laura Schlessinger
Raleigh L. Shelton II	...	Teddy Bear Buyer
Kayla Shoemaker	...	Girl at festival
Billy Slaughter	...	Nerd Elf
Alexis Smith	...	Festival Goer
Nicholas Smith	...	Gift wrapper
Ethan Suplee	...	Jangle
Odessa Sykes	...	Reporter
Todd Terry	...	Wilkes
Jody Thompson	...	Clop
Lana Underwood	...	Female tv reporter
Taylor Vosbury	...	Girl Student
Maya Waterman	...	Medusa
Jack Watkins	...	Boothe
Amanda Weisner	...	Heat Miser Boxing Fan
Brent Weisner	...	Snow Miser Boxing Fan
Cheryl Ariaz Wicker	...	Elf
Lesley Wright	...	Girl in Stocking Booth

Also Known As:

Jul utan tomten (Sweden) [sv]
Mia hronia horis Agio Vasili (Greece) [el]

Runtime:

USA:120 min (including commercials)

Country:

USA

Language:

English

Color:

Color

Filming Locations:

Natchitoches, Louisiana, USA

Company:

Warner Bros. Television

Trivia:

'John Goodman 'has also played Santa on "Futurama (1999)" and in the Animated remake of Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer.

Movie Connections:

References "South Park" (1997)

Soundtrack:

The Heat Miser Song

Should have been "The Year With out this Remake"

This was an absolutely awful remake of a holiday classic. There was a movie some years ago called Scrooged (with Bill Murray). In that movie that are producing a version of Charles Dickens "A Christmas Carol". The version that they create is absolutely over the top and insane. I think that this remake of "A Year Without a Santa Claus" is that to a "T".

This production was so over the top it completely wrecked the movie. The casting was atrocious...John Goodman as Santa wasn't that bad, but Harvey Fierstein as the Heat Miser and Michael McKean as the Snow Miser...come on are you kidding! Fierstein killed the most memorable song from the original movie. What about the Miser Brother's assistants, any reason they were cast as hot female models (not that I don't appreciate eye-candy)? As for the storyline....why did they create this "new" story? Yeah, it follows the basic idea as the original, but the story was basically completely different.

Please avoid this movie at all costs if you are a fan of the original. This one is too over the top, too long, and too crappy.