The Year Without a Santa Claus

Director: Ron Underwood, Arthur Rankin, Jr., Jules Bass

Overview

Jules Bass and Arthur Rankin, Jr.'s 1974 animated classic comes to vivid life for a whole new generation of viewers in this live action holiday adventure starring John Goodman, Chris Kattan, Eddie Griffin, Ethan Suplee, and Carol Kane. When a depressed Santa Claus (Goodman) announces plans to take the year off after becoming convinced that the masses have forgotten the true meaning of Christmas, loyal elves Jingle (Suplee) and Jangle (Griffin) make it their mission to prove their boss wrong. Saving Christmas is going to be no easy task though, because in order to truly show Santa that the spirit of Christmas is alive and well Jingle and Jangle will first have to settle a longstanding feud between Mother Nature (Kane)'s tempestuous sons Heatmiser and Snowmiser. Perhaps, with a little luck and a bit of help from Mother Nature's notoriously disagreeable siblings, Jingle and Jangle may be able to lift Santa's spirits in time to get his sleigh in flight by the time the sun goes down on the biggest night of the year.

Product Details

Release Date:	12/05/2006
UPC:	0085391115120
Original Release:	2006
Rating:	NR
Source:	Warner Home Video
Region Code:	1
Presentation:	[Wide Screen]
Sound:	[Dolby Digital 5.1 Surround]
Language:	English
Time:	1:30:00
Sales rank:	36,122

Cast & Crew

Performance Credits

John Goodman	Santa Claus
Chris Kattan	Sparky
Ethan Suplee	Jingle
Eddie Griffin	Jangle
Delta Burke	Mrs. Claus
Harvey Fierstein	Heat Miser
Michael McKean	Snow Miser
Carol Kane	Mother Nature
Carson Kressley	Santa's Dresser
Dylan Minnette	Iggy Thistlewhite
Robert Treveiler	Mayor Tistlewhite
Lara Grice	Rachel Thistlewhite
Tracey Walter	Abominable Snowman
Laura Schlessinger	Herself
Jack La Lanne	Hercules
Andrea Powell	Julie Kadlubowski-Sanchez
John McConnell	Animal Control Supervisor
Marcus Lyle Brown	Off. Jefferson
Jody Thompson	Clop
Billy Slaughter	Nerd Elf
Daniel Magill	Toy Rep
Noelle Monteleone	Gleam Elf
David Blackwell	Dr. Broadbeam
Anne Quackenbush	Teacher
Jack Watkins	Booth
Todd Terry	Wilkes
Tina Parker	Yard Guard
Fred Ellis	Seedy Santa
Aaron Beelner	Ring Announcer
Lana Underwood	Elf Reporter
Hunter Ballard	School Boy
Deborah Lurie	Composer
Johnny Marks	Composer
Dave Burgess	Composer
Gene Autry	Composer
Jules Bass	Composer
Maury Laws	Composer
Don Primer	Composer

Technical Credits

Larry Wilson

Romeo Muller

Mark Wolper	Executive Producer
Gideon Amir	Producer
Larry Wilson	Screenwriter
Bob Vazquez	Special Effects
Eric Dawson	Casting
Lisa Mae Fincannon	Casting,Casting
Romeo Muller	Screenwriter
Jules Bass	Producer
Arthur Rankin Jr.	Producer

Scene Index

List of Figures Introduction: The Medical Humanities Today The Case Studies: Case One: Circumcision: Religion and Health Case Two: Face Transplants: Authentic Faces? Case Three: Posture and Health Case Four: Obesity across Cultures Case Five: Seeing Pain Case Six: Madness as a Disability Case Seven: Self-Harm and Mental Illness Case Eight: Genes and Race Case Nine: Death: The Final Case Index

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Editorial Reviews

This interesting and enlightening book frames medical humanities in a way that proves to be very helpful to readers. In particular, author Sander Gilman provides an historical account of a number of medical values and reveals how cultural and medical assumptions can elide and confuse our understanding of issues such as posture and pain. . . . This is a great book, and I would recommend it for graduate courses in bioethics, medical humanities, and electives for residents.” —Nancy Nyquist Potter, Metapsychology “Illness and Image offers a provocative (re)examination of the ways in which conditions and behaviors have come to be portrayed as illnesses. Gilman’s exposure of the visual representation of topics from circumcision to death challenges contemporary assumptions about the essence of illness. In short, Image and Illness meets the standard we have come to expect from Sander Gilman. It deserves a wide audience.” —Howard I. Kushner, Nat C. Robertson Distinguished Professor of Science & Society, Emory University “Illness and Image shows us that diagnosis, prognosis and various bodily interventions are not neutral undertakings but are rather deeply embedded in culture. In so doing, Gilman persuasively demonstrates that the medical humanities and health sciences—generally seen as separate and distinct—are intimately intertwined. Through nine case studies, he traces medical, collective, cultural, and self- imaginaries of bodily comportment, body parts and bodily states, highlighting their spatial and temporal contingency. These lucidly written and deeply researched essays interrogate how questions of health and disease intersect with concerns about authenticity, humanness, ability, identity, race and citizenship. This book is an important resource for health professions students as well as graduate and undergraduate students and scholars in the medical humanities, public health, disability studies, and cultural studies.” —Sandy Sufian, University of Illinois-Chicago "Illness and Image begs us to slow down this frenzied approach, using our minds rather than our keyboards. We need books like Illness and Image to make clinical work the intellectual endeavor it ought to be. Otherwise we do our patients, our society, and ourselves a grave disservice. We propose truths for our patients without knowing or understanding the etiology of these truths. Illness and Image allows us to examine even our most sacred conclusions before we accept them as unquestioned gospel. What better training could there be in the increasingly nuanced world of healing?" —Steven Schlozman, PsycCRITIQUES

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