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It Nearly Wasn't Christmas (1989)
Directed by Burt Brinckerhoff
Drama, TV Movie · 1h 40m
Feeling unneeded, a disillusioned Santa Claus (Charles Durning) quits Christmas. Through the selflessness of a little girl looking to reunite her parents for Christmas (and the help of his bumbling chief elf, Philpot (Bruce Vilanch), Santa and the child travel across America and Santa discovers that people really do need him and care about other people.
Cast
Charles Durning
Santa
Bruce Vilanch
Philpot
Wayne Osmond
Jeff Baxter
R
Risa Schiffman
Jennifer Baxter
A
Annette Marin
Laura Baxter
Beverly Rowland
Mrs. Claus
T
Tip Boxell
Jeff's Boss
S
Star Herrmann
Mother (as Star Roman)
P
Paul Grace
Mugger
A
Alan Nash
Ticket Clerk
J
Jason Ball
Bus Driver
J
John Daryl
Cop - Chicago
Crew
- Director
- Burt Brinckerhoff
- Writer
- Golda David, Alan Jay Glueckman, Stanley Isaacs
- Director of Photography
- Gordon Lonsdale
- Original Music Composer
- Kurt Bestor
Details
- Release date
- 1989-12-01
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Drama, TV Movie
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English
- Countries
- United States of America
- Production
- Osmond Entertainment