1994 · fantasy · drama · family
Miracle on 34th Street
Directed by Les Mayfield1h 54m1994
Six-year-old Susan Walker has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle—Santa Claus. Her mother told her the secret about Santa a long time ago, but, after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced he's the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all—something to believe in.
Our read: Miracle on 34th Street (1994) reads as a warm, steady, inventive fantasy · drama · family entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Warm, steady, gentle fantasy / drama, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- warm
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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