Twentieth Century Fx Christmas Story Dvd Std Ws

This DVD makes a nice gift for children ages 4 to 8...It is a very poignant plausible tale of how a young orphaned lad, Nikolas, became Santa Claus. (It's different from the story of the St. Nicholas.) Yet, the main character's name in this story is Nickolas. Young Nikolas lost his parents and baby sister while the parents were taking the sick little baby for medical help, never to return to their cabin. He also took up wood carving to pass the time when days turned into weeks as he waited for his parents to return. The young lad was resourceful in breaking furniture to warm himself after the log ran out. Neighbors came to tell Nikolas the sad news about the loss of his family. He was adopted on a rotating basis, year after year by neighbors in the small fishing village in the North since nobody was wealthy enough to adopt Nikolas outright. The villagers all came to love their community orphan and he made many friends among the children of the villagers. One year, the fishing catch was very poor, nobody could adopt Nikolas. As a last resort the gruff tradesman agreed to take him to his woodshop away from town. There Nikolas was pretty much treated like a slave - but learned a lot more about woodcrafting and making toys...you can guess the rest of the story...BTW reindeer like red caps.

Good story. The town did their best to help care for this little boy. The "bad guy" ended up having a good heart. The relationships that were built were sweet and tender and strong and real. The audio was a little hard to understand... subtitles would have been appreciated. The special feature showed how many obstacles they overcame to make this movie, and I'm glad they did.