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Hi All,



This month marks *five years of Audio-Described Movie Night!*

Over the years, we’ve shared countless films and connected with wonderful
people from all around the world. We’re lucky to have a regular group of
friends from the U.S. and Canada, and we’ve also welcomed guests from
places like Poland, Australia, and South Africa—just to name a few.

I hope you’ll continue to share this announcement within your networks so
even more people can join us. I’ve always said that as long as people keep
showing up, I’ll keep providing this space for everyone to enjoy.

Here’s to many more movie nights together! 🎬✨



All events take place at 8:00 PM Eastern on the below Zoom platform.



Saturday, December 6, 2025

Miracle on 34th Street



Friday, December 12, 2025

Elf



Friday, December 19, 2025

The Nightmare Before Christmas



Friday, December 26, 2025

Trivia Night



Since the previous survey sent out to get viewers choice went so good,
thought I would try this again for the month of January. Take a look at the
below suggestions for January and choose 3 and send mea message at
movies at nfbofsc.org. The top 3 will be shown in January!



My Cousin Vinny

Hitch hikers Guide To The Galaxy

Bob Marley

12 years a slave

West Side Story

Wall-e

Tuskegee airmen The (1995)

The Super Mario Bros Movie

Castaway

The Bucket list



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Miracle on 34th Steet



to an orphan girl from the Netherlands, Susan is amazed. Doris, who has
raised Susan to not believe in fairy tales, asks Kris to tell Susan "the
truth", but Kris insists that he really is Santa Claus.



Worried, Doris decides to fire Kris, but R. H. Macy, the store's owner,
promises bonuses to Doris and Shellhammer because of the positive publicity
Kris has generated. To alleviate Doris's misgivings, Shellhammer suggests
Granville Sawyer, the store psychologist, administer an evaluation for
Kris. After doing so, Sawyer insists Kris is dangerous and should be put in
a mental institution. It's Sawyer's opinion that Kris will eventually
display "latent maniacal tendencies". Meanwhile, Susan shows Kris a
magazine photo of her dream house and tells him she wants it for Christmas.
Kris promises to do his best.



In the company cafeteria, young employee Alfred tells Kris that Sawyer
convinced him that he is unstable simply because he enjoys dressing as
Santa. Kris confronts Sawyer, eventually striking him on the head with an
umbrella. Sawyer, outraged, takes Kris to Bellevue Hospital. Tricked into
cooperating and believing Doris to be in on the deception, Kris
deliberately fails his examination and is recommended for permanent
commitment. However, Fred persuades Kris not to give up and represents him
in court.



At a hearing before Judge Henry Harper, District Attorney Thomas Mara gets
Kris to assert that he is Santa Claus and rests his case, asking Harper to
rule that Santa does not exist. In private, Harper's political adviser,
Charlie Halloran, warns him that doing so would be disastrous for his
upcoming reelection bid. Harper buys time by hearing further evidence. Fred
calls Macy as a witness and gets him to admit that he believes Santa
exists. Macy then fires Sawyer. Next, Fred calls Mara's own young son, who
testifies that his father told him that Santa is real. Mara concedes the
point, but goes on to demand that Fred prove that Kris is "the one and
only" Santa Claus on the basis of a competent authority by the following
day.



Meanwhile, Susan writes Kris a letter to cheer him up, which Doris also
signs. When a New York Post Office mail sorter sees Susan's letter,
addressed to Kris at the New York courthouse, he suggests delivering all of
the dead letters addressed to Santa to Kris, freeing up storage space. As
court resumes, Fred is informed of the mail delivery; he argues that the
Post Office, a branch of the federal government, has acknowledged that Kris
is the one and only Santa Claus by delivering the letters. When the judge
insists on seeing the letters, postal employees empty many bags of letters
on Harper's desk. Harper dismisses the case.



Kris invites Fred, Doris and Susan to a Christmas Day celebration at his
current residence, the Brooks' Memorial Home for the Aged. Susan loses
faith in Kris when he admits he was unable to get her the house she wanted.
However, after Kris offers Fred and Doris a route home that avoids traffic,
Susan sees her dream house with a "For Sale" sign out front; Susan becomes
ecstatic and runs into the house. Fred learns that Doris had encouraged
Susan to have faith and suggests they get married and purchase the house.
Fred and Doris then spot a cane inside that looks just like Kris's. Fred
begins to wonder if Kris really is Santa Claus.



Cast

Maureen O'Hara as Doris Walker

John Payne as Fred Gailey

Edmund Gwenn as Kris Kringle

Gene Lockhart as the Hon. Henry X. Harper

Natalie Wood as Susan Walker

Porter Hall as Granville Sawyer

William Frawley as Charlie Halloran

Jerome Cowan as District Attorney Thomas Mara

Philip Tonge as Julian Shellhammer

Uncredited roles

Jack Albertson as "Al", the post office mail sorter

Harry Antrim as R. H. Macy

Lela Bliss as Mrs. Shellhammer

Jeff Corey as reporter

Mary Field as Dutch girl's adoptive mother

William Forrest as Dr. Rogers at Bellevue

Alvin Greenman as Alfred

Theresa Harris as Cleo, the Walkers' maid/housekeeper

Percy Helton as drunken Santa Claus

Herbert Heyes as Mr. Gimbel

Robert Karnes as 2nd Bellevue intern

Snub Pollard as mail-bearing court officer

Thelma Ritter as Peter's mother, the one directed to another store for a
toy fire engine

James Seay as Dr. Pierce, physician at the Brooks' Memorial Home for the
Aged


Elf



One Christmas Eve, a baby from an orphanage crawls into Santa Claus's sack
and is unwittingly taken back to the North Pole. When the infant is
discovered at Santa's workshop, the elves name him Buddy, after his
diaper's brand label, and Papa Elf adopts him. Growing up, Buddy believes
that he is an elf, but discovers in adulthood that he is actually a human.
Papa Elf informs Buddy that his birth parents are Walter Hobbs and Susan
Wells, the latter having put him up for adoption before her death. Walter
now works as a children's book publisher at the Empire State Building in
New York City, unaware of Buddy's existence. Santa informs Buddy that
Walter is on the naughty list, but he suggests that Buddy could redeem him.



Buddy travels to New York and finds Walter at his workplace, but Walter
thinks he is a Christmas-gram messenger and has him ejected. Buddy visits a
Gimbels department store and becomes infatuated with a deadpan employee
named Jovie. Hearing that Santa will visit the store the following day,
Buddy redecorates the store overnight. However, when he realizes that the
store's Santa is a man in a costume, Buddy causes a brawl and gets arrested.



Walter reluctantly bails out Buddy of jail and takes him for a DNA test,
which confirms that Buddy is his son. The doctor suggests that Walter take
Buddy home to meet his stepmother Emily and half-brother Michael. Walter
and Michael are unnerved by Buddy's behavior, but Emily insists that they
take care of him until he "recovers". Michael bonds with Buddy after they
beat a gang of bullies in a snowball fight and helps Buddy to ask out Jovie
on a date.



Meanwhile, Walter's publishing company is struggling after the failure of
its latest book. Walter's boss, Fulton Greenway, expects him to have a new
book ready by Christmas Eve. Walter and his associates secure a meeting
with ghostwriter Miles Finch, but Buddy disrupts the meeting and
inadvertently offends Finch by mistaking him for an elf due to his
dwarfism. Finch reacts violently and walks out of the meeting, causing
Walter to furiously disown Buddy. Ashamed, Buddy writes a letter of apology
on an Etch A Sketch and leaves the Hobbs' apartment.



When Michael informs Walter of Buddy's departure, Walter quits his job to
find Buddy. Meanwhile, Buddy notices Santa's sleigh crash in Central Park.
Santa explains that the sleigh has lost its engine, which is essential for
flight, due to a lack of Christmas spirit. Buddy finds the engine and
reunites with Walter and Michael, and Walter apologizes to Buddy for his
outburst and accepts him as his son. Michael takes Santa's list and reads
it aloud in front of news cameras assembled outside the park, proving that
Santa is real. Buddy tries to reattach the sleigh's engine as Central Park
Rangers pursue the sleigh. Recalling Buddy's statement about how singing
can spread Christmas cheer, Jovie leads the crowd and those watching on
television in a rendition of "Santa Claus Is Comin' to Town", generating
enough Christmas spirit to power the sleigh without the engine.



By the next Christmas, Walter and Buddy have started their own publishing
company, with their first bestseller being a children's book based on
Buddy's exploits. Buddy has also married Jovie and brings their infant
daughter, Susie, to visit Papa Elf.



Cast





Will Ferrell (left) and James Caan play Buddy and Walter Hobbs respectively.

Will Ferrell as Buddy Hobbs, an eccentric human who was raised by Santa's
Christmas elves

Max Favreau plays a young Buddy

James Caan as Walter Hobbs, a cynical children's book publishing executive
at Greenway Press and Buddy's biological father

Zooey Deschanel as Jovie, an unenthusiastic Gimbels employee and Buddy's
love interest

Mary Steenburgen as Emily Hobbs, Walter's wife, Buddy's stepmother, and
Michael's mother who encourages Walter to bond with Buddy

Daniel Tay as Michael Hobbs, Walter and Emily's son and Buddy's younger
paternal half-brother

Ed Asner as Santa Claus, a Christmas figure who found an infant Buddy in
one of his Christmas bags

Bob Newhart as Papa Elf, an older Christmas elf who is Buddy's adoptive
father and the film's narrator

Faizon Love portrays Wanda, the manager of Gimbels and Jovie's boss. Peter
Dinklage portrays short-statured children's book author Miles Finch. Amy
Sedaris plays Walter's secretary, Deb. Michael Lerner portrays Fulton
Greenway, the CEO of Greenway Press, and Walter's controlling and uncaring
boss. Andy Richter and Kyle Gass play Walter's colleagues Morris and
Eugene, respectively.



Artie Lange plays the department store Santa with whom Buddy gets into a
fight. Will Ferrell's brother Patrick appears with Patrick McCartney as a
pair of Empire State Building security guards. Mark Acheson portrays the
mailroom worker who shares his liquor with Buddy. Favreau makes a cameo
appearance as Walter's family doctor who does a DNA test on Buddy. Lydia
Lawson-Baird portrays Carolyn Reynolds, a little girl who Buddy meets in
the waiting room who wants a "Suzy Talks-A-Lot" for Christmas. Claire
Lautier plays Charlotte Denon, an NY1 reporter covering the crash in
Central Park, and Matt Walsh appears alongside Lautier as an eye witness.



At the North Pole, David Paul Grove portrays the elf Pom Pom, on whom Buddy
faints, Michael Roberds portrays an elf cobbler, and Richard Side plays an
elf teacher. Producer Peter Billingsley is uncredited as head Christmas elf
Ming Ming.[6]



Additionally, Leon Redbone voices Leon the Snowman, Ray Harryhausen voices
a Polar bear cub, and Favreau is uncredited as the voice of Baby Walrus,
Mr. Narwhal and the Arctic Puffin.[6] Also uncredited are Maurice LaMarche
for providing Buddy's extended belch,[7] and Dallas McKennon, who provides
the voice of the jack-in-the-boxes via archive audio of the hyena he voiced
from Disney's Lady and the Tramp.[citation needed]


The Nightmare Before Christmas



Halloween town is a fantasy world populated by various monsters and
supernatural beings associated with the eponymous holiday. Jack
Skellington, the well-respected Pumpkin King, leads the town in organizing
its annual celebrations. This year however, Jack grows tired of the same
routine and longs for something new. Upon discovering trees containing
doors to other holiday-themed worlds, Jack stumbles through the one leading
to Christmas Town and is fascinated by the unfamiliar holiday.



Jack returns home and shares his discovery with his friends and neighbors,
but they struggle to grasp the concept of Christmas, although they relate
to its ruler, Santa Claus, or "Sandy Claws" as Jack mistakenly dubs him.
After several futile attempts at finding a way to rationally explain
Christmas, Jack decides to "improve" the holiday instead. He announces that
Halloween Town will take over Christmas this year and assigns
Christmas-themed jobs, such as singing carols, making presents and building
a sleigh pulled by skeletal reindeer, to various residents.



Sally, the feminine creation of local mad scientist Doctor Finkelstein,
experiences a vision predicting that their efforts will end disastrously.
Jack, whom she secretly loves, dismisses her warnings and instructs her to
make a Santa Claus suit for him. He tasks mischievous trick-or-treating
trio Lock, Shock and Barrel with abducting Santa; however, he orders them
not to involve their superior Oogie Boogie, a bogeyman with a passion for
gambling and Jack's long-time rival, in their plot.



When Lock, Shock and Barrel bring Santa to Halloween Town, Jack tells him
that he will take care of Christmas this year and orders the trio to keep
Santa safe. However, they disobey Jack's orders and bring Santa to Oogie,
who plots to play a game with Santa's life at stake. As Jack departs to
deliver presents in the real world, Sally, after failing to stop him
beforehand, attempts to rescue Santa from Oogie, only to be captured
herself.



Jack's Halloween-themed presents terrify the real world's populace, who
contact the local authorities and are instructed to lock down their homes
for protection. The military is alerted and Jack is shot out of the sky,
leading Halloween Town's populace to believe he is dead. It is revealed
that he survived and has crashed into a nearby cemetery. Bemoaning the
trouble that he has caused, Jack realizes he nonetheless enjoyed the
experience and that it gave him new ideas for celebrating next Halloween,
reigniting his love for the holiday.



Upon returning home, Jack rescues Santa and Sally, confronts Oogie and
defeats him by unraveling a thread holding his cloth form together, causing
all of the insects inside Oogie to spill out and reduce him to nothing.
Though displeased with Jack for his foolish actions and not listening to
Sally earlier, Santa makes amends with him and resumes his yearly duties,
replacing Jack's presents with genuine ones and saving Christmas.



All of Halloween Town celebrates Jack's return. Santa brings a snowfall to
the town, thereby bringing the Christmas spirit upon it, while Jack and
Sally finally declare their love for each other.



Voice cast



Main article: List of The Nightmare Before Christmas characters



Chris Sarandon (2017)



Catherine O'Hara (2005)

The voices for Jack Skellington's spoken lines and Sally were respectively
provided by Sarandon and O'Hara.

Danny Elfman (singing voice) and Chris Sarandon (speaking voice) as Jack
Skellington, a skeleton known as the "Pumpkin King" of Halloween Town.
Elfman was initially cast as Jack's singing voice and, after the songs were
recorded, Sarandon was cast to match Elfman's voice style.[7][8][9]

Elfman also voices:

Barrel, one of the trick-or-treaters working for Oogie Boogie.[10][11]

The Clown with the Tear-Away Face, a demonic entity disguised as a
unicycle-riding clown.[10][11]

Catherine O'Hara as:

Sally, a rag doll-like creation of Finkelstein and Jack's love interest.
She is a toxicologist who uses various types of poison to liberate herself
from the captivity of her creator. She is psychic and has premonitions when
something bad is about to happen. O'Hara had previously co-starred in
Burton's Beetlejuice.[11]

Shock, one of the trick-or-treaters working for Oogie Boogie.[11]

William Hickey as Doctor Finkelstein, a mad scientist and the loving and
overbearing creator of Sally. He is listed in the credits only as "Evil
Scientist" and is only mentioned by name twice in the film.[11]

Glenn Shadix as the Mayor of Halloween Town, an enthusiastic leader who
conducts town meetings. His double-sided head spins between a "happy" and
"sad" face, mirroring his wild mood swings; where some career politicians
are described as figuratively two-faced, the mayor is literally so. Shadix
and Burton had previously worked on Beetlejuice.[11]

Paul Reubens as Lock, one of the trick-or-treaters working for Oogie
Boogie. Reubens and Burton had previously worked on Pee-wee's Big Adventure
and Batman Returns.[11]

Ken Page as Oogie Boogie, the film's main antagonist, a villainous bogeyman
in Halloween Town, who has a passion for gambling and rivalry with Jack.
Unlike the other citizens of Halloween Town who only scare for fun and
don't wish to cause harm, Oogie is ruthless and despises Halloween Town for
banishing him.[11]

Ed Ivory as Santa Claus, the ruler of Christmas Town. Santa is responsible
for the annual celebration of Christmas, in which he delivers presents to
children in the real world. He is also referred to by Jack and Halloween
Town's residents as "Sandy Claws". Ivory also provides the brief narration
at the start of the film.[12]

Joe Ranft as Igor, one of Doctor Finkelstein's creations and his lab
assistant.[10]

The cast also features Debi Durst, Greg Proops, Kerry Katz, Randy Crenshaw,
Sherwood Ball, Carmen Twillie, Glenn Walters and John Morris handling
additional character voices.[10] Patrick Stewart recorded Santa Claus
narration for a prologue and epilogue. While not used in the final film,
the narration is included on the soundtrack album.[13]









Steve Cook

I hope you will join me for audio describe movie night on the 1st 2nd and 3
rd Fridays of each month at 8:00 PM Eastern. To obtain the Zoom information
to join me, send me a message at cookcafe at sc.rr.com
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