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A father vows to get his son a Turbo Man action figure for Christmas. However, every store is sold out, and he must travel all over town and compete with everybody else in order to find one.A father vows to get his son a Turbo Man action figure for Christmas. However, every store is sold out, and he must travel all over town and compete with everybody else in order to find one.A father vows to get his son a Turbo Man action figure for Christmas. However, every store is sold out, and he must travel all over town and compete with everybody else in order to find one.
- Awards
- 2 wins & 4 nominations
Jim Belushi
- Mall Santa
- (as James Belushi)
E.J. De La Pena
- Johnny
- (as E.J. de la Pena)
Jeff L. Deist
- T.V. Booster
- (as Jeff Deist)
- …
- Director
- Writer
- All cast & crew
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Storyline
Did you know
- TriviaSinbad improvised the majority of his lines. Arnold Schwarzenegger also improvised many of his responses in his conversations with him.
- GoofsWhen Howard runs into Ted and the reindeer, the reindeer's antlers are still in velvet. Velvet is shed in August, at least four months before the Christmas Eve setting.
- Crazy creditsAfter the end credits, there is a brief heartwarming family scene, that ends with a question from Liz. She asks Howard what he got her for Christmas.
- Alternate versionsThe original UK cinema and video releases were cut by the UK censors to remove a 7 second sequence involving nunchucks. Following a review by the censors of the treatment of martial arts weaponary onscreen, this cut was restored when the film was classified for a UK DVD release in 2000.
- SoundtracksRockin' Around the Christmas Tree
Written by Johnny Marks
Performed by Ronnie Spector and Darlene Love
Courtesy of Special Olympic Productions, Inc.
Featured review
Critics are wrong!
Sometimes critics mistake.This is definitely an example.You see some movies don't need to be reviewed,you just need to watch them first,and then judge your feelings. So idea of the movie is great,and its pretty familiar to EVERY father on Christmas.And that's why people like to associate themselves with Arnie's character.There are a lot of misadventures(you wont remember every after ending i promise),but they actually work out pretty entertaining,sometimes even laughably funny (Santa's gang scene). Also contains good soundtrack,that includes Chuck Berry's "Run Rudolf,Run". i also like casting choice for Ted.I don't like this type of sleazy scumbags,thats why he is so realistically annoying.
Not much else to say,WATCH IT NOW.
Not much else to say,WATCH IT NOW.
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- carth2
- Feb 5, 2010
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- Release date
- Country of origin
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- Language
- Also known as
- Could This Be Christmas?
- Filming locations
- Production companies
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Box office
- Budget
- $60,000,000 (estimated)
- Gross US & Canada
- $60,592,389
- Opening weekend US & Canada
- $12,112,267
- Nov 24, 1996
- Gross worldwide
- $129,832,389
- Runtime1 hour 29 minutes
- Color
- Sound mix
- Aspect ratio
- 1.85 : 1
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