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At the Macy's Department Store Thanksgiving Day parade, the actor playing
Santa is discovered to be drunk by a whiskered old man. Doris Walker, the
no nonsense special events director, persuades the old man to take his
place. The old man proves to be a sensation and is quickly recruited to be
the store Santa at the main Macy's outlet. While he is successful, Ms.
Walker
learns that he calls himself Kris Kringle and he claims to be the actual Santa
Claus. Despite reassurances by Kringle's doctor that he is harmless, Doris
still has misgivings, especially when she has cynically trained herself, and
especially her daughter, Susan, to reject all notions of belief and fantasy.
And
yet, people, especially Susan, begin to notice there is something special
about Kris and his determination to advance the true spirit of Christmas
amidst the rampant commercialism around him and succeeding in
improbable ways. When a raucous conflict with the store's cruelly
incompetent psychologist erupts, Kris finds himself held at Bellevue where,
in despair, he deliberates fails a mental examination to ensure his
commitment. All seems lost until Doris' friend, Fred Gaily, reassure Kris of
his worth and agrees to represent him in the fight to secure his release. To
achieve that, Fred arranges a formal hearing in which he argues that Kris is
sane because he is in fact Santa Claus. What ensues is a bizarre hearing in
which people's beliefs are reexamined and put to the test, but even so, it's
going to take a miracle for Kris to win.