At the Macy’s Department Store Thanksgiving
Day parade, the actor playing Santa is discovered to be drunk by a whiskered
old man. Doris Walker, the no nonsense special events director, persuades the
old man to take his place. The old man proves to be a sensation and is quickly
recruited to be the store Santa at the main Macy’s outlet. While he is
successful, Ms. Walker learns that he calls himself Kris Kringle and he claims
to be the actual Santa Claus.
Despite reassurances by Kringle’s doctor
that he is harmless, Doris still has misgivings, especially when she has
cynically trained herself, and especially her daughter, Susan, to reject all
notions of belief and fantasy. And yet, people, especially Susan, begin to
notice there is something special about Kris and his determination to advance
the true spirit of Christmas amidst the rampant commercialism around him and
succeeding in improbable ways. When a raucous conflict with the store’s cruelly
incompetent psychologist erupts, Kris finds himself held at Bellevue where, in
despair, he deliberates fails a mental examination to ensure his commitment.
All seems lost until Doris’ friend, Fred
Gaily, reassure Kris of his worth and agrees to represent him in the fight to
secure his release. To achieve that, Fred arranges a formal hearing in which he
argues that Kris is sane because he is in fact Santa Claus. What ensues is a
bizarre hearing in which people’s beliefs are reexamined and put to the test,
but even so, it’s going to take a miracle for Kris to win.
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