Furious, Kris Kringle reports the Santa imposter to the parade director who in turn convinces Kris to play the role in the parade and subsequently in the department store. Children and adults alike are drawn to Kris and many begin to believe that Kris Kringle is the real Santa Claus. The film was highly recognized at the Academy Awards. It was also a nominee for Best Picture. Miracle on 34 th Street has since received several other honors.
Storyline Edit. At the Macy's 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 him to take his place. He proves to be a sensation and is quickly recruited to be the store Santa at the main store. While he is successful, Doris learns that he calls himself Kris Kringle and he claims to be the actual Santa Claus. Despite reassurances by his 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 among the rampant commercialism around him and succeeding in improbable ways. When a raucous conflict with the store's cruelly incompetent therapist, Granville Sawyer, erupts, he finds himself held at Bellevue where, in despair, he deliberately fails a mental examination to ensure his commitment.
All seems lost until Doris' friend, Fred Gailey, reassures him 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.
You've got them mixed up! You're making a mistake. You're making a mistake with the reindeer. Tsk tsk tsk. Not Rated. Did you know Edit. Trivia In the untranslated dialogue with the Dutch girl, Kris asks her what she wants for Christmas. She says she wants nothing, telling him she got her gift by being adopted by her new mother. In fact, that was John C. The confusion arose because Adams was the 6th President whereas Tompkins was the 6th Vice President, some Presidents having had a different Vice President in each term, and one of the latter having served under 2 of the former.
Quotes Mr. Alternate versions Also available in two computer colorized versions. The film was first colorized in by Color Systems Technology, Inc. You can help us help kids by suggesting a diversity update. Heartwarming messages about the importance of childhood wonder, trust, and standing up for what you believe.
Themes include integrity and courage. Susan stands up for what she believes in. Santa is fuzzy and warm. Other than a little cynicism on the part of the mother in the beginning, things are rosy all around here. Parents need to know that Miracle on 34th Street is a classic holiday tale with little objectionable content. The Macy's brand is a big focus, as is Santa over more religious aspects of the holiday.
The little girl at the heart of the story, Susan Natalie Wood , at first doesn't believe in Santa because her mom has raised her as a realist -- which could lead to questions from kids -- but ultimately she's proven wrong and becomes a stout believer in St. Add your rating See all 11 parent reviews. Add your rating See all 10 kid reviews. When the Santa Claus she has hired for the parade shows up drunk, she quickly substitutes Kris Kringle Edmund Gwenn , who is an enormous success and is becomes the store's even more successful in-house Santa.
He tells customers to shop elsewhere when Macy's doesn't have what they want. The employees are aghast, but it turns out to be a public relations triumph. Doris raises her daughter Susan Natalie Wood without any fantasies or illusions, to help her handle "reality. But Kris tells her that he really is Santa Claus, and after observing him for a while, she begins to believe him. But Kris' insistence that he really is Santa Claus leads to a hearing on his mental competency.
Downtrodden, Kris doesn't even want to assist in his defense. So it's up to Doris, Susan, and kids everywhere to show adults the truth. Ignore the pallid television and theatrical remakes; this original is much, much better. Both Edmund Gwenn and the screenplay won Academy Awards for this film.
In a way, Miracle on 34th Street is the opposite of Inherit the Wind. Both are courtroom dramas about how we decide what is true, based on faith or based on provable fact. They have opposite conclusions, however, and the great gift of the movies is that both seem right to us. One similarity is that in both, the judges are warned that they must make a decision that will have favorable political consequences. Doris has been hurt, and thinks she can protect herself and Susan from further hurt by not letting herself believe in anything outside themselves any more.
She finds out that both she and Susan have missed a lot, not just in imagination but in the ability to trust, and to allow themselves to get close to other people.
Families can talk about why Doris doesn't want Susan to use her imagination in Miracle on 34th Street.
Why do Kris and Fred think it's important? Kringle makes it his mission during the movie to teach the young Susan Walker how to pretend. A fun scene in the movie shows him teaching her how to act like a monkey. Creativity is known for helping the development of children, and for enriching our lives. This message has been especially important during the coronavirus pandemic.
So many of us have been locked away in our rooms, waiting for the day to pass, waiting for the pandemic to end. We had to get creative to get through it.
We needed to have game nights over Zoom. We had to meet in parks, distanced apart, with masks on. There were so many creative ways to spend our year, most of which required our thriving imaginations. Having an imagination is something we cannot forget. This is an important takeaway for as well. Despite all the bad we may see and experience, there is still good in the world, and life is so much better when we focus on that. The pandemic has been grim and tragic for hundreds of thousands of families across the world.
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