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This movie, with its Russian wintery scenery and famous soundtrack which includes the song "Once Upon A December" earns its place among these Christmas movies. 

In the post-revolution St. Petersburg, a young con-artist and his assistant hold auditions for any young woman who is willing to pose as the lost Russian Princess Anastasia. But when they run into a young orphan named Anya they try to convince her that she could possibly be the lost princess. 

She is willing to travel to Paris to meet the royal family but is unwilling to play into their con. Dimitri and Vladimir only want the reward which is offered to anyone who finds the princess and Anya only wants to find her family.

The trio agree that in the end, they all get what they want. 

But, Dimitri does not bring into account that the saucy, headstrong orphan is actually quite attractive and he feels himself reluctantly falling in love with Anya.

After his success at last Halloween is celebrated, Jack Skellington the Pumpkin King takes a lonely walk far from Halloween Town while lamenting how bored he is with his routine Halloween scare and how much he longs for something more exciting and decidedly different.

During his wandering, he ends up far from home and finds himself in a wood with a circle of trees each with a door on it, representing the different holidays of the year. One door the shape of a tree that is decorated with ornaments catches his eye and he enters, tumbling down into Christmas Town.

Instantly, Jack feels something new and warm. He is so excited that he brings a new idea back to Halloween Town: Christmas is a wonderful holiday and the people of his village should try something new - kidnap Santa and give him a vacation and celebrate Christmas a little differently this year.

The plan seems to go well with Jack even being able to dress up like Santa and he's off to fill the stockings of all the little girls and boys with the help of his friends from Halloween Town who have sacrificed much time to build the toys now in his sack.

But disaster strikes and Jack finds himself frantically looking for Santa to fix the holiday he ruined...but Santa is in trouble of his own after having been turned over to the Boogie Man.

This movie should be avoided first and foremost because the concept is bad. It seems like Christmas is the only holiday that hasn't yet been perverted into something completely opposed to Christianity. Halloween, on the other hand, has been mostly infiltrated to mean something that is grotesque and ugly until it is almost unrecognizable from celebrating All Saint's Day.

Taking everything that is bad about Halloween and injecting it into a Christmas story is wrong. Skeletons, mad scientists, witches, and vampires are portrayed as sympathetic characters.

Showing ugly characters who are supposed to be good is confusing to kids and is never a good idea. We need our good guys to be good and our bad guys to be bad. Otherwise it's really blurring the lines which, in its own turn, destroys our culture.