THE CHRISTMAS STAR

Details

• Release Year: 1986
• Genre: Adventure, Drama, Family, Other, Western
• Plot: Disney gives families a gift full of the spirit of the season as Ed Asner plays Horace McNickle, a counterfeiter who escapes prison through his extraordinary likeness to St. Nick. The police are closing in, but Christmas is near so there are red-suited ones everywhere. McNickle is desperate to recover loot from an earlier caper, and can't make a move until he takes advantage of two neighborhood kids who really believe he is Santa. After the kids come through, it dawns on him that he has always missed the true meaning of the holidays. Rather than make good on his escape, he tries to make good on his promises.
• Cast: Edward Asner, Rene Auberjonois, Jim Metzler, Susan Tyrrell, Karen Landry, Alan North, Philip Bruns, Nicolas Van Burek, Vicki Wauchope, Zachary Ansley, Fred Gwynne, Peter Bibby, Lillian Carlson, David Glyn-Jones, Anthony Holland, Frank C. Turner, Claire Brown, Renee D'Aoust, Linda Darlow, Lorraine Foreman, Joseph Golland, Russell Hunter, Oliver Kearnes, David Longworth, Gordon McIntosh, John Payne, Enid Saunders, Raimund Stamm, Robyn Stevan, Roman Podhora, Don Thompson, Jerry Wasserman, Sid Williams, John Bolton, Monica Fuhrmann, Genesee Keevil, Tiffany Michas, Toko Okada, Nicole Roberts, Brittany Wong, William S. Taylor, Alan Shapiro, Carol Dysinger, Jeffrey White, Paul Lohmann, Andrew London, Joe Ravetz, Ralph Burns
• Director: Alan Shapiro
• Runtime: 1:34
• Company: Disney
• Media Format: Movie