Jonathan Parker (Peter Berg) is your typical high school athlete, who is out trying to impress his girlfriend, Alison (Camille Cooper). But for some reason he can’t seem to keep things straight whenever she’s around, and one day he slams into the goal post, and it looks like he gives himself a concussion. That’s not the worst part, though, because that night he has a nightmare where he sees his brother, sister and mother killed by a serial killer who is stalking the city.

When he tries to convince his father (the police chief) about what he saw, his dad doesn’t want to hear about it. But when his family turns up dead, and he somehow knows the details, suddenly they are very interested – but not in a casual sense. They want to know just how he came to know what he does. That’s when things get a little more interesting. Unfortunately, Jonathan isn’t interested in just telling them. He wants to help catch this guy.

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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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