It was originally going to be released under the Hollywood Pictures banner, but was moved to Walt Disney Pictures after positive test screenings among children. The film was mostly shot in Oakville, a town in the Greater Toronto Area, which also served as the city of Lakeside, Illinois. After getting Laura's permission for a sleigh ride with his father, Charlie and Scott head out to continue the Christmas deliveries and Scott accepts his new life as Santa Claus. After a very public departure, Charlie attempts to use the snow globe to summon Scott to him and he eventually arrives. Laura destroys the court order against Scott and tells him that he can visit Charlie anytime he wants. Bernard shows up to thank Laura for the cookies and disappears into thin air. Scott returns to take Charlie home, and manages to convince Laura and Neil of his new identity by giving them the gifts they asked for as children. (Effective Liberating Flight Squad) is called and rescues Charlie and frees Scott from custody. On Christmas Eve night, Scott begins delivering presents, and is arrested when entering Laura and Neil Miller's house, leaving Charlie stranded in the sleigh on the roof. As Laura and Neil steps out of the room for a moment, Bernard comes and takes Scott and Charlie away to the North Pole, leading Laura to believe Scott had kidnapped him. As Neil insists to Charlie that Scott is not Santa, Charlie hands Scott a magical snowglobe he received from Bernard, which finally convinces Scott that he is Santa. On Thanksgiving night, Scott arrives to say goodbye to Charlie. Laura confides that she stopped believing in Santa when she was only eight, when he failed to give her a board game Mystery Date for Christmas, while Neil, at the age of three years stopped believing when Santa did not give him an Oscar Mayer Weenie Whistle he wanted. These changes prompt further concern from Laura and Neil, who subsequently call to have Scott's visitation rights removed. He also begins to recount 'naughty' and 'nice' children by name after getting his "list" of children in the mail, as well as packages containing milk and cookies and his own suit. Whittle takes him aside and asks him to get some help. During a meeting with his company, Scott disrupts the meeting to call out their idea of promoting a television advertisement of Santa riding a toy tank. His rapid weight gain results in his clothing not fitting and he results to wearing sweatpants and white t-shirts that will reveal is swollen belly. Scott's doctor says his weight gain is just fluctuation, even when Scott insists that gaining 45lbs in a week is not right and the changing of his hair color is because he is middle aged. He also begins losing the coloring of his hair, turning it stark white. The taste for these newfound treats cause Scott to gain an inordinate amount of weight seemingly overnight and he balloons to 192lbs, which at first he thinks he is just bloated. He also develops a fondness for Christmas treats, primarily milk and cookies. The first thing to appear is a beard, which always re-grows, even immediately after shaving. However, over the course of the year, strange things begin to happen to Scott. Not wanting to break Charlie's heart, Scott tells him to keep the North Pole and everything they saw a secret. After Charlie proudly tells his class that Scott is Santa Claus, Laura and Neil confide their concerns and ask Scott to put a stop to what they believe is a delusional fantasy. Scott awakens in his own bed on Christmas morning and believes the night before having been a dream, but the enthusiastic Charlie recounts several events he had not told him and leaves him in doubt. He tells a skeptical Scott that he has eleven months to get his affairs in order before reporting to the workshop at Thanksgiving permanently. As the morning comes, the reindeer return to the North Pole to Santa's Workshop, where the head elf Bernard explains that, due to a clausical contract written on a card Scott found on Santa, in putting on the suit and entering the sleigh he has accepted the "Santa Clause" and has agreed to the responsibilities of that position. After confronting a man on the roof, who inadvertently falls off when Scott startles him, then vanishes leaving his Santa Claus outfit behind, they discover eight reindeer on the roof and Charlie convinces Scott to put on the suit and finish Santa's work for him. After Scott reads "Twas the Night Before Christmas" to Charlie on Christmas Eve, he and Charlie are awakened that night by sounds on the roof. Scott and Laura's son, Charlie spends Christmas Eve with his father, who burns the Christmas turkey, forcing them to eat at Denny's. His ex-wife, Laura, is now married to psychiatrist Neil Miller. Scott Calvin is a divorced advertising executive.
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