The Gingerbread Man is a 1998 American legal thriller film directed by Robert Altman and based on a discarded John Grisham manuscript. The film stars Kenneth Branagh, Embeth Davidtz, Robert Downey, Jr., Tom Berenger, Daryl Hannah, Famke Janssen, and Robert Duvall.

The Nutcracker is a 1973 Soviet/Russian animated film from the Soyuzmultfilm studio directed by Boris Stepantsev and based partly on Pyotr Tchaikovsky’s ballet The Nutcracker, but more closely on E.T.A. Hoffmann’s novelette The Nutcracker and the Mouse King, the story which inspired the ballet.

In the folklore and legends of the Netherlands and Belgium, Zwarte Piet is a companion of Saint Nicholas whose yearly feast in the Netherlands is usually celebrated on the evening of 5 December and 6 December in Belgium, when they distribute sweets and presents to all good children.

Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a reindeer with a glowing red nose. He is popularly known as “Santa’s 9th Reindeer” and, when depicted, is the lead reindeer pulling Santa’s sleigh on Christmas Eve. The luminosity of his nose is so great that it illuminates the team’s path through inclement winter weather.

Jack Skellington is a fictional character who first appeared in the 1993 animated film The Nightmare Before Christmas. Jack is the Pumpkin King of Halloween Town and lives in a fantasy world based solely on the Halloween holiday. His usual appearance is a skeleton dressed in a black pin-striped suit and a bow tie resembling […]

A rag doll-like creation of Finklestein and the growing love interest of Jack who uses Atropa belladonna to escape detection from Finkelstein. O’Hara also provided the voice of Shock. Burton previously worked with O’Hara on Beetlejuice.

Zero is Jack’s faithful ghost dog who floats about freely and follows Jack wherever he goes. His nose, which is in the shape of a jack-o-lantern, also doubles as a bright light.

Oogie Boogie is the main antagonist of the film. Oogie Boogie is essentially the Bogeyman, resembling a large burlap sack. When Oogie Boogie is defeated, it is revealed that he is a colony of bugs wrapped in sacking.

Dr. Seuss’ How the Grinch Stole Christmas is a 2000 American Holiday fantasy-comedy film from Universal Pictures and Imagine Entertainment, based on the 1957 book of the same name by Dr. Seuss. It was the first Dr. Seuss book to be adapted into a full-length feature film. Because the film is based on a children’s […]

Ebenezer Scrooge is the principal character in Charles Dickens’s 1843 novel, A Christmas Carol. At the beginning of the novel, Scrooge is a cold-hearted, tight-fisted and greedy man, who despises Christmas and all things which give people happiness. Dickens describes him thus: “The cold within him froze his old features, nipped his pointed nose, made […]

Home Alone is a series of family comedy films directed by Chris Columbus , Raja Gosnell , Rod Daniel , and Peter Hewitt . The first two films, Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, were based on the adventures of a boy named Kevin McCallister who during the course of the […]

Home Alone is a series of family comedy films directed by Chris Columbus , Raja Gosnell , Rod Daniel , and Peter Hewitt . The first two films, Home Alone and Home Alone 2: Lost in New York, were based on the adventures of a boy named Kevin McCallister who during the course of the […]

Miss Piggy is a Muppet character who was primarily played by Frank Oz on The Muppet Show. In 2001, Eric Jacobson began performing the role, although Oz did not officially retire until 2002.