Mr. St. Nick

Kelsey Grammer stars as Santa Claus’s Florida-dwelling son, who falls for a Christmas-charity scam after turning his back on the festive family business., Kelsey Grammer stars as Nick St. Nicholas, a Miami-based playboy philanthropist who is about to make his life complete by wedding the girl of his dreams, gorgeous TV weathercaster Heidi Gardelle (Elaine Hendrix). Not known to the general public is that the profligate St. Nicholas is really the son of none other than Santa Claus (Charles Durning)–or, as the jolly old elf is known in this story, Nicholas XXX. Expected to take over the “family business” at the North Pole before his father’s power fades, Nick balks, choosing instead to remain in Miami, where he is about to launch his latest charity at the behest of his fiancee Heidi. By the time he realizes that his “dream girl” is actually a mercenary nightmare, Nick finds himself besieged by a vindictive INS agent (Colin Cunningham)–and racked with guilt over the gloomy fate awaiting his father and the North Pole toy factory. It is up to Santa’s head elf Jasper (Brian Bedford) and Nick’s lovely Latino cook Lorena (Ana Ortiz) to come to the rescue. Armed with a surprising number of sexually suggestive jokes for an ostensible family film, Meet St. Nick was coproduced by Disney Films and Hallmark Entertainment, and was first broadcast as an episode of ABC’s Wonderful World of Disney anthology on November 17, 2002., Father Christmas decides it is time to hang up his hat and hand the reins of the family business over to his son – who is less than enthusiastic about donning the famed red suit, preferring to spend his time chasing the ladies on Miami Beach, throwing the future of the festive season into doubt., Kelsey Grammer stars as Santa Claus’s Florida-dwelling son, who falls for a Christmas-charity scam after turning his back on the festive family business. Lorena: Ana Ortiz. Santa: Charles Durning. Heidi: Elaine Hendrix. Mrs. Claus: Katherine Helmond. Jasper: Brian Bedford. Hector: Luis Garcia. Agent Nardo: Colin Cunningham. Tia Sophia: Lupe Ontiveros. Mimir: Wallace Shawn., Lighthearted comedy in which Santa decides to retire from his annual duties and pass the reins over to his errant son, who is not quite ready to handle his responsibilities. With Christmas only weeks away, St Nick the younger can only resist his destiny for so long., Poor Santa! He’s getting on in years and he’s ready to turn over the sleigh to his son, Nick St. Nicholas, but junior is too busy soaking up the sun in Miami to have any interest in the ongoings at Mistletoe Manor. And a less than noble public relations guy now has junior’s ear, with plans to exploit his royal connections online! Christmas’s wintry enchantment is about to melt away under a hot Florida sun – unless one prince of a guy can find the magic inside himself to save it!