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Family on December 23rd, 2006 by Chad Everett
Long before The Santa Clause 2 (eight years, in fact), there was The Santa Clause. This movie introduced us to Scott Calvin (Tim Allen), who is basically a regular guy trying to come to grips with the fact that his ex-wife and her new husband have custody of his son, and he doesn’t get to see him very often.
Add to that the fact that his job is rather demanding, and even when he does get to see his son, such as on Christmas Eve, he’s usually running late, and his son doesn’t always want to see him, so things just aren’t going very well. All that is about to change.
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Comedy on March 17th, 2006 by Chad Everett
This, ahem, classic, stars Christina Applegate as Sue Ellen Crandell, the eldest of the five children Crandell siblings, left at home with a kindly, elderly, babysitter while their mother travels to Australia for an extended trip. Needless to say, they aren’t happy about having someone keep an eye on them.
Luckily (for them), their keeper doesn’t last long, expiring peacefully in a lounge chair one evening. Being the considerate kids that they are, they pack her in the trunk and drop her off at a funeral home – unknowingly including the money that their mom left the sitter to care for them for two months. This means someone (Sue Ellen draws the short straw) needs to get a job to buy the essentials.
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