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1996 |
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PG |
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88 minutes |
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Brian Levant |
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Chris Columbus, Mark Radcliffe, Michael Barnathan |
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20th Century Fox |
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Arnold Schwarzenegger, James Belushi, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, Robert Conrad |
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In March 2001, a U.S. District Court jury in Birmingham, Michigan, ruled that 20th Century Fox stole the script idea, "Jingle All the Way", from Detroit High School biology teacher, Brian Webster. The studio was ordered to pay $19 million, later reduced to $1.5 million. Webster submitted the script, then named "Could This Be Christmas?", to the studio in 1994 and never received payment or credit despite the film making $183 million. Fox appealed and the verdict was reversed, since Webster's script was submitted after the studio had already purchased a treatment (summary/outline) of what would become the film's script. The court acknowledged that it is not difficult to believe that two writers can independently create a plot using similar inspiration/experience.
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Myron Larabee: As if I didn't have enough trouble, my son sends me out for some goofy-butt toy. Some fruity robot named Turtle-Man.
Howard Langston: It's Turbo Man. My son wants one too.
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Jingle All the Way Reviews |
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rec.art.movies.reviews newsgroup |
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JINGLE ALL THE WAY is the first film from Chris Columbus' 1492 production company which was not directed by Columbus himself, and I found myself curious as to whether it would resemble the producing efforts of his mentors Steven Spielberg and John Hughes -- more specifically, would it look like a clone of Columbus' own films? Just as an experiment, I predicted to myself that JINGLE ALL THE WAY would involve an irresponsible/inconsiderate adult who, after plenty of broadly comic trials and tribulations, learns What's Really Important. That particular combination of slapstick and sentimentality had served Columbus well in two HOME ALONE films, MRS. DOUBTFIRE and NINE MONTHS (making him the third highest grossing director in history behind Spielberg and Robert Zemeckis), and there was no reason to suspect he wouldn't go to the well again.
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