Movie Information
Overall Rank: 21321
Average Rating: 2/4
# of Ratings: 45
Theatrical Release Date: 11/11/1988
Language: English
Genre: Family, Comedy
MPAA Rating: PG
Director: John R. Cherry III
Actors: Jim Varney, Douglas Seale, Oliver Clark, Noelle Parker, Gailard Sartain, Billie Bird
Plot: When Santa Claus decides to retire and pass on his magic bag of Christmas surprises to a new St. Nick a perky teen runaway and hapless taxi driver Ernest P. Worrell must convince a skeptical kids-show host to take over the post of Father Christmas.
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3/4
Matthew Brady - wrote on 12/24/2018
"The name is Santa Claus!" While not a good movie, but out of the Ernest movies, this is the least painful to sit through. Douglas Seale plays Santa with warm and delight. The saving grace of the movie.
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