Reminds me of how Disney promoted “The Lion King” as a wacky comedy as opposed to the biblical-level epic that it actually is.
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Future Academy Award winner

This movie is proof that you don’t need extravagant special effects to make people believe in Santa Claus; just a very fine performance by a gentleman like Edmund Gwynn!

“Check me out! I’m a lynx-homey!”

2025 was anything BUT a bad year for cinema. If anything, we were blessed with not one but THREE 2D hand-drawn animated features!

(3/3) "All I ever got was an orange." he would say every holiday season. Coincidently, he died Christmas Day 1977 at the age of 88. His daughter Geraldine even jokingly stated that he did so “ruin it for his family"!

(2/3) According to Jeffrey Vance in his audio commentary for the Criterion Collection release of "The Gold Rush" (1925), (in which Thanksgiving and New Year's are observed, but Xmas is ignored) the real reason why Chaplin hated Christmas is because he grew up in poverty during his childhood days.