Wednesday 15 December 2021

Miracle on 34th Street (1994 Les Mayfield)

"Hey I just got some mistletoe. Do you want to go back to my place and try it out?" I don't think original co-writer George Seaton would have been pleased to have been roped in on the screenplay credit with Chris Columbus at all. This is rummy slush, with an unsympathetic Elizabeth Perkins, bland Dylan McDermott and yucky Mara Wilson, leaving Dickie Attenborough to carry the film. Oh, it's 'A Les Mayfield film' by the way, so we know who to blame, produced by John Hughes.

With Robert Prosky (judge), J.T. Walsh, Jane Leeves and (briefly) Allison Janney.

Best bit: Santa signing to deaf kid.

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