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Miracle on 34th Street is a 1994 American Christmas fantasy film written and produced by John Hughes, and directed by Les Mayfield (the two would reunite for 1997's Flubber). It stars Richard Attenborough, Mara Wilson, Elizabeth Perkins, and Dylan McDermott, and is the fourth remake (and the second theatrical version) of the original film. Like the original, this film was released by 20th Century Fox, to mixed to positive reception.
The New York City based Macy's department store declined any involvement with this remake, so the fictitious "Cole's" was used as its replacement.[2]Gimbels had gone out of business in 1987; hence it was replaced by the fictional "Shopper's Express".
The film opens with an elderly man (Richard Attenborough) sporting a fedora, glasses, and a brown coat with a cane, walking on the street as his morning routine. As he stops at a pedestrian crossing, a young boy named Ryan pleads to his grandfather, judge Henry Harper, to "ask him". Harper, knowing that the elderly man overheard Ryan, clears up the misunderstanding by saying that his grandchild thinks he is Santa Claus. After an exchange of laughs, the elderly man surprises the boy by saying "I am". After the elderly man leaves, a dismayed and contented Ryan states that he "should have got his autograph".
On the same day, Cole's Department Store's special events director Dorey Walker (Elizabeth Perkins) fires Tony Falacchi from being the Cole's Department Store's Santa Claus after he gets drunk before taking part in the Thanksgiving parade. Immediately trying to find a replacement, she spots an elderly man from the film's opening who was berating the inebriated Santa before the parade. When Dorey begs him to take over, he introduces himself as Kris Kringle. Kris does so well during the parade that he is immediately hired to be Cole's main Santa for the holiday period.
All the children in New York begin to believe that he is the real Santa, with the exception of Dorey's six-year-old daughter Susan (Mara Wilson). Dorey's boyfriend, lawyer Bryan Bedford (Dylan McDermott), does his best to convince Susan to believe. While being babysat one night by Kris, Susan shares with him her Christmas wish, she would like a dad, a house (used every year for the Cole's catalogue photoshoot) and a baby brother. Kris asks if she would begin to believe in Santa if she got all those things. Susan agrees that she would.
Kris is credited with bringing in increasingly more sales to Cole's than previous years. One night, while walking home, a man tries to interrogate Kris, which angers the latter and leads him to assault the former. Kris' actions however, leads him to be arrested. The man whom Kris assaulted is revealed to be Falacchi, who had apparently taken revenge by means of setting up Kris to be arrested with the help of staff and the administration of Shopper's Express, Cole's rival department store corporation.
With the help of Bryan, Dorey takes Kris's case to court, and drums up support for him from the public. In the courtroom where judge Henry Harper presides, Bryan manages to bring witnesses to testify that Kris is Santa Claus after meeting him at Cole's, but the prosecution presents a compelling case that Santa Claus doesn't exist, leading Harper to confide in Bryan that he would be forced to rule against Kris.
Just as Judge Harper is about to make his decision, Susan walks up to the judge with a Christmas card containing a $1 bill. On the back, the words In God We Trust are circled. The judge realizes that, since the U.S. Department of Treasury can put its official faith in God with no hard evidence, then the people of New York can believe in Santa Claus in the same way. Left with no choice, an elated Harper dismisses the case and declares that Santa is real, existing in the person of Kris Kringle.
Following the court case, Dorey and Bryan are maneuvered by Kris into realizing their true feelings for each other, and are married in a very small ceremony right after the Christmas Eve Midnight Mass. On Christmas morning, Susan wakes to the news of the marriage and is elated to see that she has part one of her Christmas wish, Bryan as her new dad. Together, Susan, Dorey and Bryan drive out to the catalogue house and upon arrival, find that Kris has arranged for them to purchase the house, which they can now afford due to the size of the Christmas bonus Dorey has received as a result of Kris' work at Cole's. Susan, now having got two out of three of her wishes, excitedly runs upstairs in the house to look at her bedroom. Dorey and Bryan are about to kiss when Dorey asks her what the last part of her Christmas wish was, and she triumphantly announces that it was a baby brother. Dorey and Bryan both look at each other, shocked, before glancing down at Dorey's stomach and sharing a kiss. The film ends with the belief that Susan has now received all she asked for in her wish. It is then mentioned that Kris has gone overseas.
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| Directed by | Les Mayfield |
| Produced by | John Hughes William Ryan William S. Beasley |
| Screenplay by | George Seaton John Hughes |
| Story by | Valentine Davies |
| Based on | Miracle on 34th Streetoriginal screenplay by George Seaton |
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| Music by | Bruce Broughton |
| Cinematography | Julio Macat |
| Edited by | Raja Gosnell |
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| Distributed by | 20th Century Fox |
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Running time
| 114 minutes |
| Country | United States |
| Language | English |
| Box office | $46.3 million[1] |
