Heartwarming festive drama starring Whoopi Goldberg and Nigel Hawthorne about a tough television executive, Lucy Cullins, who accidentally hires the real Santa Claus to play himself in a Christmas advertisement. While auditioning actors to play the part, the embittered executive hires a magical gentleman called Nick who, facing retirement at age 200, must find someone to take his place as Santa Claus for the next two centuries or the world facies life without Christmas.