Also known as Santa and Me, this is yet another reworking of the old Scrooge formula. Although she failed to find her niche on the big screen, Shelley Long remains a more than capable comic actress and she fully enters into the spirit here as the crotchety lawyer who suddenly finds her life turned upside down by pesky part-time Santa Bruce Kirby. With Spin City mayor Barry Bostwick providing dependable support, this feel-good fare is every bit as sickly sweet as you'd expect it to be. But, in this season of over-indulgence, what more could you ask for?

When you're the city attorney you don't need the kinds of problems that her father was giving her. After her mother died, her father began doing his "Santa Schtick," as she called it, much more intensely... which meant that he turned his home into a kind of year-round Santa Claus castle where children of all ages could come to see the wonderful presents and no child ever left without a gift.