Jingle All the Way

A harried father decides to dream the impossible dream, to get that year’s hot toy for his son just before Christmas Day.

• Director:Brian Levant
• Genre:Action / Adventure / Comedy / Family
• Runtime:94 minutes

Cast

Arnold Schwarzenegger : Howard Langston
Sinbad : Myron Larabee
Phil Hartman : Ted Maltin
Rita Wilson : Liz Langston
Robert Conrad : Officer Hummell

Howard Langston (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a workaholic mattress salesman, who has a hard time finding time for his wife, Liz (Rita Wilson), and his young son, Jamie (Jake Lloyd) – especially when compared to next door superdad divorce, Ted Maltin (Phil Hartman). After breaking his word again by missing Jamie’s karate grading (from yellow to purple), Howard resolves to redeem himself and his marriage by fulfilling Jamie’s ultimate Christmas wish, getting an action figure of Turbo-Man, a popular children’s TV superhero.

Unfortunately, as is the habit with him, Howard had promised to buy that figure earlier that year and then promptly forgotten about it. To make things even harder, Turbo-Man toys are the must-have gifts of the season, and stocks of Turbo-Man toys are quickly drying up all over the country. Desperate not to disappoint his family again, Howard embarks on an epic quest through Minneapolis on Christmas Eve to find the toy everyone’s looking for. Along the way, Howard meets Myron Larabee (Sinbad), a postal worker dad with a rival ambition, who believes the TV character’s action figure is called ‘Turtle-Man’, and the two soon become bitter competitors in their race for the action figure. During the chase, Howard keeps running into Alexander Hummel (Robert Conrad), a traffic cop who gets somewhat personal. Desperate, Howard hooks up with a band of brand-spoofing crooks and ends up in a brawl with them, barely escaping when the police raid their warehouse. Some time later, he and Myron cross paths again in a false-advertising radio station and are nearly arrested. Myron bluffs them into backing off my threatening them with a Christmas package (which he bluffed was a homemade bomb, unaware that it really was one). Hummel tries to open it, and it blows up in his face.

After his car is stripped by thieves, Howard is ultimately forced to return home empty-handed. Following a misunderstanding with Liz and Ted, he attempts to steal the Turbo-Man doll from Ted’s house, but realizes what he is doing and attempts to put it back. However, he is attacked by a reindeer in Ted’s backyard before he can do so. Finally having had enough, he punches the animal out. He then decides to join his family at the department store parade, as he promised his son he would do. Meanwhile, at the parade, Ted attempts to hit on Liz, which she eventually turns down by smashing his face with a thermos of eggnog. Read more

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