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Santa Claus Is a Stinker
MEANRANK
81/100
Where it ranks
- Mean Score #536
- IMDb #1372
- Rotten Tomatoes #281
- Letterboxd #1992
- Rotten Tomatoes Critics #636
- Rotten Tomatoes Audience #291
Every rating
Mostly agreed
Lowest is Kinopoisk on 69, highest is Rotten Tomatoes viewers on 93. Critics average 93, everyone else 79.
See the films the platforms disagree about most →Two unemployed friends, desperate for money, decide to rob a local charity run by a grumpy, disheveled man who claims to be the real Santa Claus. Their attempted heist coincides with a visit from a inept social worker, leading to a night of utter chaos, mistaken identities, and slapstick violence in the charity's building.
Details
- Director
- Jean-Marie Poiré
- Studio
- Trinacra Films, Films A2, Les Films du Splendid
- Released
- 25 August 1982
- Country
- France
- Language
- French
- Runtime
- 88 min
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