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Miracle on 34th Street (1947)

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Synopsis

After a divorced New York mother hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.

Cast

  • Maureen O'Hara
  • John Payne
  • Edmund Gwenn
  • Gene Lockhart
  • Natalie Wood
  • Porter Hall
  • William Frawley
  • Thelma Ritter
  • Jack Albertson
  • Jerome Cowan

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Metacritic

91

In the battle of the classic Hollywood Christmas movies, It's A Wonderful Life feels charmingly ancient, fixed in an early-20th-century America that scarcely anyone today remembers first-hand. Miracle On 34th Street feels more modern, with slangy dialogue and naturalistic asides, and a general awareness of how Christmas has become about the intertwined stresses of shopping and selling.

Metacritic review by Noel Murray
Noel Murray
The A.V. Club
80

It's a highly professional piece of Hollywood sentimentalism.

Metacritic review by Dave Kehr
Dave Kehr
Chicago Reader
88

A Christmas season evergreen.

Metacritic review by Michael Wilmington
Michael Wilmington
Chicago Tribune