Nick e la renna che non sapeva volare

Yet another Santa Claus fantasy film with Tom Cavanaugh as a very non-stereotypical St. Nick. Such films generally play the reactions of characters to being confronted with something in which they don't believe. This movie is no different but does play around with legend of Santa Claus in an interesting way.

In overall terms, the script is rather weak and the film's limited budget does show. The reindeer effects though are pretty good. However, Tom Cavanaugh's quirky performance as a nervous, bumbling first-time Santa Claus is very enjoyable and Ashley Williams brings a great deal of warmth to her role as a good-hearted zookeeper. Their performances rise above the script.

My favorite quote (from Hector): "Who knew that Santa Claus was a dweeb?"

This is an excellent movie shown on Family Channel for the whole family to watch. It is so nice to see a fun light hearted movie that has no cussing and no sex in it. We watched it a couple of times last year and already this year a couple more times and I am hoping to get the chance to watch it again. It is one of those movies that make you feel Christmas(y) and happy. I hope at some point they put it out on DVD so I can buy it and watch it all Christmas Season. Nick Snowden is just the all time cutest Santa trying to get back his missing reindeer with the help of a small boy with big ideas. Sandy Brooks is a naive zoo worker who plays the perfect part of prospective Mrs. Claus. This is truly a must see movie for everyone from the youngest to the oldest.

Not all "Christmas Television Movies" are bad. Some of them are but this film "Snow" is very good. It is "Christmas Magic".

In this film Ashley Williams plays a zookeeper who unknowingly has one of Santa's stolen reindeer in her zoo.

Nick Snowden, who is really Santa Claus, falls for Sandy Brooks, a pretty zookeeper who works at the zoo from which he must rescue Buddy, a young reindeer who has not yet learned to fly. He needs her help to get Buddy out, so he follows her home. Nick meets Lorna, the landlord and owner of the boarding house where Sandy stays. She thinks Nick is a tenant, gets to know him, and lets him stay in the boarding house. Nick meets Hector, whose mother is a postal worker. Hector figures out that Nick is Santa Claus. Nick meets Sandy and falls for her. Sandy falls for him too and is unaware that he is Santa Claus. She helps Nick get Buddy out of the zoo and back to the North Pole. Nick usually tele- port himself in and out by mirror, but the only way the mirror works is by using North Pole snow. Buck Seger is a hunter who works at the zoo and has a crush on Sandy. He sees Nick as a rival and researches that Buddy is from the North Pole. He plans to sell Budd.

I loved this film. I will watch it again

I don't understand why "mandlk" would be concerned with how "secular," much less "TOO secular" this made-for-TV movie is, or whether or not it made "sure there was No religion in this movie" as, the entirety of the story of - and the origin of the story of - "Santa Claus" has nothing to do with religion, whether viewed secularly or otherwise, in any fashion. The legend of Santa Clause derived from Thomas Nast year end cartoons printed in New York in the 1820's, amplified by Coca- Cola (paint)advertisements dating as late as the 1930's.

The English colonists of what had been "New Amsterdam," now New York, had no legend that correlated with the Dutch "Sinter Klaas," wherein Sinter Klaas would visit all the good (Dutch) children, giving them gifts and whatnot. After the English had taken over New Amsterdam, they ended up evolving the Santa Claus legend (and boy... it's a long story) to please their children. The Santa Claus story we're all familiar with in the 21st-Century didn't fully gel until after the Great Depression of the 1930's and, especially, with the "Miracle on 34th Street" film.

I guarantee it had nothing, whatsoever, to do with religion, lack of religion or secularism... or NON-secularism... or even a Christian usurpation of some pagan yule tradition. It is basically a 19th- century urban legend that became evermore-convenient to present-for-commercialization for the benefit of whoever happened to sponsor the latest made-for-whatever-medium depiction of it.

I suggest you simply enjoy the movie for the 'warm-fuzzies' it contains... or not... "That choice is left up to you."

My wife and I just saw the movie Snow on ABC Family a few minutes ago, and I must say that it is very excellent.

It is very heart-warming and it also gets you in the spirit of the Christmas Holidays.

This movie starts out with a guy named Nick (AKA Santa) who has lost one of his reindeer and is on a mission to find him. Not only does he find the reindeer, he also finds the love of his life,although she doesn't realize it at the time. Nick tries out in a lot of ways to not only get his reindeer, but also tell this woman he is Santa, and each and every time he tries, someone either interferes, or else he loses his nerve to tell this woman the truth. Finally after showing this woman where he is really from, does she realize he is Santa but when he asks to go with him, a roadblock occurs. If you haven't seen this movie yet, I recommend you see it to get the rest of the story.