December 24 - The Polar Express

Today's motion picture is a fantasy film with scenes that happen on December 24. Watch and enjoy this movie tonight. 

THE POLAR EXPRESS       

On December 24, 195_ [00:27 to 1:15:55] a boy, who is starting to have doubts about whether Santa Claus is real, is awakened by a train outside. He learns it is the Polar Express that is heading to the North Pole to see Santa. On board the boy meets a girl, a know-it-all kid and poor boy Billy. After a series of adventures and difficulties they reach the North Pole.  There Billy, the boy, and the girl end up separated from the other children and in Santa’s magical toy bag. Santa gives the boy a bell that only makes a sound he can hear after he decides he believes in Santa. He loses the bell on the way home, but it turns up as one of his Christmas presents under the tree.

The date is given in the film at 00:43

Producers - Steve Starkey, Robert Zemeckis, Gary Goetzman and William Teitler

Director - Robert Zemeckis

Screenwriters - Robert Zemeckis and William Broyles, Jr.

Awards – The film was nominated for the Best Sound Editing, Best Sound Mixing and Best Original Song Oscars at the 77^th Academy Awards.

Runtime – 1 hour 40 minutes

Released – October 21, 2004

Voice Cast –

Tom Hanks as Hero Boy's father, Conductor, Hobo, Santa
Claus, and Narrator

Daryl Sabara as Hero Boy

Isabella Peregrina as Sarah

Eddie Deezen as Know-It-All Kid

Nona Gaye as Hero Girl

Jimmy Bennett as Billy

André Sogliuzzo as Smokey and Steamer

Chris Coppola as Gus the Toothless Boy and an Elf

Julene Renee as the Red Head Girl and an Elf

Steve Tyler as elf singer

Copyright by Ivan Walters in 2015