2010 · family · adventure · supernatural
The Search for Santa Paws
Directed by Robert Vince1h 29m2010
When Santa and his new best friend, Paws, discover that the boys and girls of the world have lost the spirit of the season, they take a trip to New York City. But after Santa loses his memory, it's up to Paws, a faithful orphan named Quinn, her new friend Will, and a wonderful group of magical talking dogs to save St. Nick and show the world what Christmas is really all about.
Our read: The Search for Santa Paws (2010) reads as a cosy, kinetic, inventive family · adventure · supernatural entry — gentle in intensity, mid-stakes in scope, tender in temperature, redemptive in outlook.
Cosy, kinetic, gentle family / adventure, inventive in texture. Redemptive, mid-stakes, tender.
- cosy
- brisk
- gentle
- redemptive
- tender
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