“OPERATION: Santa Claus”
Screenplay Synopsis

The opening scene provides a panoramic view of the cosmos. As the view moves from the earth and through the cosmos towards the Black Hole, the narrator explains how the Creator has granted a request that sends forth three spiraling Angels from the depths of the black hole. They are followed as they move through the galaxies towards earth. Impacting at the North Pole, an amazing explosion creates countless crystals that move throughout the poles of the planet covering it in a blanket. One particularly strong crystal is followed as it heads towards north central Pennsylvania, eventually falling into the mouth of a screaming 9-year old boy named Nicky. A crowd of bullies are pushing his face into a snow bank. Nicky pulls away and continues to defend his stance that Santa Claus truly exists. The crowd grows and is getting loud laughing at him as a nun works through the crowd and drags him off to the principal’s office.A few days later, it’s the Saturday after Thanksgiving Day, 1968, in small downtown Williamsport, Pa. With snow falling, little Nicky Perugino is being dragged through a hurried crowd by his mother for his annual photo shoot with Santa as he notices so many other Santas on the street and around all the stores.Later that night, Nicky asks his mother that question all parents dread to hear, "Is there really a Santa Claus?"
So many kids at school are teasing him because he believes there is. His mother reminds that he is named after St. Nick, the original Santa. She then goes on to gently explain to him that the Santa of storybooks and TV are pretend, but that there are many Santas that come from St. Nicholas. Nicky’s mother explains how since the time of St. Nicholas, many others enjoy the Spirit of Sharing as they become Santa for family, friends and those in need. Nicky goes to bed thinking how that would be a great way to live, wishing to become Santa when he grows up.A few days later, Nicky is on his way to school. It’s cold outside when he hears a little girl playing in the yard he is walking by and stops to chat with her. Nicky learns her name is Sara and they instantly become friends. Nicky is surprised she is so nice because so many kids pick on him and he really has no friends. Abruptly, her mother comes out the front door and through the porch, scolding her for being outside without a coat. As she carries the little girl away, Nicky asks if she’ll come back outside to play once she gets her coat. Her mother, overwhelmed with their poor financial situation, starts crying and carries her inside the house. Sara turns to Nicky and tells him she doesn’t have a coat to wear. Nicky is stunned that anyone could not have a coat.He spends the day at school defending the existence of Santa with his classmates and getting laughed at. He tries to figure out how to get Sara a coat. When asked in class what Nicky wants for Christmas, he says he wants money to buy a little girl a coat. Nicky is teased all day about having a girlfriend.
That night Nicky has a strange experience. Nicky notices a strange figure in the corner of his room. An old man with long white hair and beard stands before him dressed in a white tunic and large red cape. He holds a magnificent gold staff with a bright red gem glowing at the top. On his head is a red and gold pointed hat. The old man introduces himself as St. Nicholas. He moves to the bedside and tells Nicky that Santa Claus truly does exist in the hearts of many good people. St. Nicholas shares Nicky’s disappointment that so many are selfish and mean. He is also heart broken that Santa Claus has become so commercialized and distorted with all the clearance sales, and phony Santa TV shows and movies. St. Nicholas asks Nicky if he will help rekindle the true spirit of Santa Claus and the Spirit of Sharing for all people to enjoy. Nicky wants to but doesn’t know how he could possibly help. St. Nicholas tells Nicky that a special visitor will be with him later that night. This special visitor is always with Nicky, watching every step, helping him along. The whole idea of being watched bothers Nicky, still saddened by the way the kids at school treat him. St. Nicholas tells him there is no need for fear, even at the sight of this rather large visitor. His name is Michael, and he has been with Nicky since before the day he was born. Perplexed, Nicky falls asleep.Nicky awakens to a warm breeze in his room. He sees the windows are closed but the breeze is getting stronger. The breeze turns into a wind that keeps getting stronger and now his room is lighting up as if one light bulb at a time is being turned on, more and more until Nicky can no longer stand the brightness and covers his face with his arms. Instantly, the wind stops, the brightness relaxes and Nicky sees before him a most magnificent sight.
Nicky sees an Angel, with long blond hair, over 9 feet tall with larger wings and the bluest eyes Nicky has ever seen. With the face of a warrior, the Angel’s smile is surprisingly peaceful and comforting. Michael introduces himself as Nicky’s Guardian Angel. St. Nicholas asked him to visit to give Nicky support.Nicky is instructed not to be discouraged. The world is full of good and bad, but people have the potential to make more good, than bad happen. Michael has had a special request fulfilled to allow Nicky to see him. Nicky asks why and is told that, since Nicky accepted the mission to rekindle the Spirit of Sharing in the world that he will undergo many trials and tribulations in doing so. Every single human being has a guardian angel and only a select number are permitted to see and speak with their Angel. Michael is visible so he can be a constant reminder of the support and strength Nicky will need to succeed. Nicky is instructed to go back to sleep knowing he will awaken with a plan to help Sara.
Nicky awakens and decides to ask his father for money to buy Sara a coat, but fears his father won’t give him money because things are so financially tight in the home. His father is sympathetic, but cannot provide what Nicky needs.Nicky proceeds to ask his brother and sister for a loan, who decline knowing he could never pay it back. Nicky talks to a few relatives and finally gets enough borrowed. Nicky figures he can do chores for the neighbors to pay them back. He finds just the right coat, estimates the size and buys it.
Christmas is approaching soon, school is out but the family has many holiday visitors. Nicky is busy helping to prepare the food and decorations for the family festivities. It is impossible for Nicky to get away to deliver the gift to Sara.
The gift sits under his bed all wrapped. His brother finds it addressed to Sara and teases Nicky that the story at school about having a girlfriend must be true. He finds the receipt and is shocked to see the coat costs so much. Where could a kid like Nicky be getting $25.00? He tells their father and now on Christmas Eve Day, Nicky is grounded. Father is disappointed that Nicky asked the relatives for money, he doesn’t understand how Nicky thought he could ever pay back the loans made. He tells Nicky the coat must be returned and the money must be paid the relatives promptly. Late that night Nicky is holding the gift and crying that he didn’t get it to her by Christmas. He falls asleep as the package falls to the floor. Michael reappears and picks it up as he smiles at Nicky sleeping and delivers it to Sara.Sara is sleeping in a little room with only a mattress on the floor. Michael places the gift by her pillow on the floor. The note reads: To Sara, From Santa.
The next morning Sara awakens to the only gift she receives and is thrilled how warm it feels and how there’s just a little bit more room to grow into. Sara and her mother have struggled since she was born when her dad died. No matter how rough things got, her mother always took good care of her. The places they’ve lived in weren’t all that nice but they were always kept clean and as comfortable as possible.When Nicky awakes, the gift is gone, he has no way to return it and gets grounded another week, right through vacation, because of it. His family is financially struggling too, the business requires much work and so far has produced little profit. They are upset Nicky delivered the gift when he was told it had to be returned to pay off the loans.
When school starts again, Nicky takes a different route to avoid seeing Sara, it just broke his heart that she didn’t have a coat. On the third day back, he heard some of his classmates jeering him about what Santa got him, so he took the old route by Sara’s house. When he came up to her house, he couldn’t believe it. There was Sara playing outside in the cold, but with a coat on, a coat just like the one he bought for her. She ran up to show him the great coat. Nicky asked where it came from, she told him it was by her bed when she woke up with a note that it was from Santa Claus! Nicky and Sara became great friends that winter. Nicky now knew, no matter how many others didn’t believe in Santa, he now had a friend who believes too.Their friendship grows until the day of summer vacation when Sara told Nicky that she was moving. Her mother met a wonderful and generous man at Christmas time and they decided to get married. Sara was excited that she and her mother wouldn’t have to struggle alone any more but was saddened that they were moving out of the state.Heartbroken again, Nicky returns home to spend yet another summer by himself. Who would play with a kid his age that believed in Santa?
Nicky never gives up what he believes in. Christmas after Christmas and all through the year, Nicky finds people in his neighborhood that need help. He learns to give gifts that don’t cost him much or anything at all. Neighbors find their sidewalks cleaned, flowers growing in their flowerbeds, garbage taken out. Yet poor Nicky keeps getting teased and made fun of by the neighborhood kids who spend their time playing war and throwing snowballs at cars.Nicky tries to make so many happy, the more he did for others, the more he learned of others that needed help. Many times, much more help was needed than Nicky could provide. Nicky found he just didn’t have the time, and rarely the money, needed to do those things. Nicky felt very lonely and discouraged. He started convincing himself that he should just stop doing all those secret things to help others out because he just wasn’t doing enough, too much had to be done and there was so much suffering.Nicky grows into his teens to see his family’s hard work pay off. The bakery grew and grew. Nicky’s Dad is spending more time at home. His parents want to do something for the great community that helped flourish their business. With the help of some friends, they start up a local soup kitchen. Nicky is all excited as he learns how to organize such a large project. The soup kitchen gets all the bread they need!Family and friends are gathered for an Italian Thanksgiving Day feast at Nicky’s home. Much to his surprise his mother and father present him with an early Christmas Gift, his very own Santa Suit that his mother made for him.That night Nicky is restless. The Angel Michael returns. Nicky is surprised because it had been so long since the last visit, that even Nicky was convincing himself it was just a dream the first time they met. Michael tells Nicky not to give up trying to help others. Nicky doesn’t think he’s the right person to do what needs to be done. Michael insists that he sees the Spirit of Sharing growing within Nicky. Michael tells him the Spirit is strong, but it is always up to Nicky what to do and how to do it.Michael tells Nicky that St. Nicholas has asked the Creator for the help of three special Angels to help guide Nicky along the way. It may be years before Nicky meets them. Nicky must persevere in much adversity before he will be prepared for their visit. Michael sees Nicky’s potential to help many needy people but Nicky must have the faith and perseverance to achieve it.Christmas, 1975, Nicky wears his Santa suit for his high school’s toy drive. He loves the joy he brings to needy children but is disturbed by the living conditions he finds them in. Nicky is hooked on playing Santa from here on. He wears the suit discovering ways to become a better Santa Claus to children. Life is actually starting to feel better. Nicky spends much of the following Decembers visiting hospitals, nursing homes and schools in the Santa suit his mother made him. At one of the schools, Nicky sees a little girl that profoundly resembles Sara. Where is she now, what does she look like? Does she even remember him? He never stops thinking of her. He helps run toy drives and gets the school cafeteria to give him the extra food every day so he can bring it to a local soup kitchen his father and mother helped start.Nicky goes off to college still playing Santa with every chance he gets. During his four years, Nicky dates many girls, but never finds anyone that truly shares his dreams and desire to help others. Nicky realizes that many of the girls that get his attention all resemble what Nicky thinks Sara may look like today. As his college career comes to an end Nicky realizes that he may be able to help more people out if he were a priest and decides to enter a seminary.
Thinking this may be the missing key in his search to helping as many people as possible, Nicky enters the seminary at the University of Notre Dame. He stays for only two years because he finds the process of formation to be too be involved in training and not in service to the poor. His spiritual advisor tells him there will be a time for that but the training comes first.
Nicky tries to fill his need to help out by organizing a free food and clothing day for the needy in the town. Months go into preparations for the big day. Three days before the event the seminary announces that a famous spiritual writer will be visiting and announces a mandatory attendance at a seminar during the time of Nicky’s event. Nicky’s spiritual advisor strongly recommends Nicky’s attendance despite the event he has worked so hard for. Nicky makes arrangements with other volunteers to run the event.Nicky attends the seminar, the writer’s first talk is about the gift of sharing. How we are called to serve the needs of each other. Nicky turns to a classmate that helped arrange the event and tells him he cannot stay any longer. At the first break, Nicky and classmate sneak out to work the event.Many more than expected show up for food and clothing. The event stirs such sharing in the downtown community that store owners provided back up items and services and even jobs for the unemployed. The event gets quite a newspaper write up with Nicky’s picture on the front page.Upon return, Nicky is confronted by his advisor. Nicky has let down his classmates and teachers by his departure but made them proud of his achievement. Nicky explains feeling betrayed by his calling. If he was called to serve, but cannot because of technical requirements, this cannot be the right calling for him. His director understands and recommends Nicky consider taking some time off to discern, possibly going to a third world country to volunteer for a while.
In 1983, Nicky ventures off to India and volunteers at a leprosy colony. He even spends time with Mother Teresa in Calcutta. At the Mother’s House, Nicky gives food to a family that has a little girl that looks oddly familiar, it isn’t until after they leave that he remembers the girl reminds him of Sara.Mother Teresa teaches Nicky about a poverty that exists that he has never heard of. She tells him the story of visiting nursing homes in the USA. These places had all of the comforts of modern technology, yet the people were so very sad. She found an old woman that sat by the front door all day long, every day of the week, month after month for years. She was waiting for her son to visit. Though he sent flowers and cards, he never showed up, yet every day she awoke, she believed that would be the day. The poverty of loneliness is far worst than lack of food or shelter.
Nicky then takes off for Africa to deliver food and medical supplies to drought-ridden tribes near Nairobi. It amazes Nicky that despite the hunger and harsh conditions of the people there, they kept their places clean and joyful, often celebrating very simple events in life. Nicky’s final weeks in East Africa were flying by. Upon his return from his last relief run, Nicky helped out with the next incoming volunteer’s orientation.The group was a large one, 14 people, mostly from the US, were there to help out for one month, doing much of the same Nicky did for 3 months. The group was friendly, but Nicky noticed one in particular. She was a few years younger than Nicky, she felt more familiar than she looked, but that was the look that always got his attention. It was Sara’s look. One of the first questions asked was your name, where from, why you were there. Her turn came up, her name was Sara from Boston. She was there because when she was a little girl, when her life could not get much worse, she received two gifts she needed so badly. The most important gift was a wonderful father that took good care of her and her mother, the second was a coat she desperately needed as a little girl. She believed the coat was sent by Santa himself.Ever since that Christmas, and because of her father’s generosity, she has been on a journey to make a difference in the lives of many people. Nicky practically fell off the chair, could this be the same one? But how? This Sara is from Boston.An after dinner walk proves his hopes correct, it is Sara, the one he looked for in all the other girls he ever met. The one his heart ached for all these years. Sara said she moved to Boston when she was 16. They were together again. There was one hurdle to clear: Sara was just starting a 6-month mission tour, and Nicky was ending his. They vowed to stay as much in touch as possible and to reunite upon return home.
All of these experiences overwhelm Nicky as he struggles with fears of never connecting with Sara again. The Third World is awesome and challenging, especially for females. He finds himself falling into depression trying to understand why so many people are suffering, so needlessly, yet he enjoys a very comfortable and plentiful lifestyle. The overwhelming majority of the world’s population has never used a toilet. There is so much suffering, so much hunger and pain. Why isn’t he the one born without a roof over his head, with unclean water to drink, with rice to eat only every 2-3 days? Nicky falls deeper into loss as he begins to feel that it’s all too much to do anything about. Too many questions, too much suffering, too much to do.Nicky moves to Boston to await Sara’s return. He reconnects with her mother and meets her stepfather there. Sara is due back on December 21st, what a Christmas Nicky is expecting. Unfortunately, Nicky and Sara’s family lost contact with Sara just before Thanksgiving. Nicky reassures the family that constant communication is difficult but that they should hear something soon. December starts with no word yet. Slowly information is coming in from other contacts there that Sara had ventured off on her own towards Egypt before returning home.12/21 arrives and they are all hopeful she will be on her scheduled return flight. Tears start rolling as they confirm that all of the passengers have disembarked. Nicky spends all of his energy 24 hours a day trying to find out what happened to Sara.
Still no word, the worst was feared. Three days later, Nicky is on the phone screaming Kiswahili at someone in Kenya when he is interrupted to answer the door. Not sleeping for days, Nicky is livid at being interrupted and practically swings the front door off its hinges to find a startled Sara standing there with that drop-dead gorgeous smile. Nicky can see the shadow of St. Nicholas behind her.
Soon after a short engagement, they were married and life is just great for Nicky. Their love grows for each other. Together they spend their free time setting up programs like soup kitchens, shelters and redistribution centers to help those in need. Boston is big and so are the problems.
After three years in Boston, Nicky’s parents invite them to experience a Christmas in Florida. Excitedly they visit and all fall in love with the warmth and sunshine. While there, Nicky lands a teaching job for the upcoming year. Nicky and family move south to Sarasota, Florida. Nicky spends another 8 years teaching about social injustices, human rights, national and global poverty. Life is now pretty good for Nicky, married to a most wonderful woman, two boys, a job he loves, life is good and soon would change dramatically.Nicky plays Santa all these years while teaching, enjoying the fun but always feeling it wasn’t quite complete. There was still something missing in his life.On Christmas Day 1995, Nicky and family settle in front of the fireplace to watch one of Nicky’s gifts from Sara. They all enjoyed the Tim Allen movie: "The Santa Clause," except for Nicky. Sara and kids were laughing at how a comedy could end up making Nicky cry. The reason was simple, Tim Allen did what Nicky always wished for, he turned into Santa Claus.Nicky is unable to sleep that night, thrilled by the idea of turning into Santa, eventually asleep, Nicky starts dreaming.
Nicky is dreaming of actually being Santa Claus. With all the magical majesty at the North Pole. In front of a magnificent castle, Nicky gets to see himself as the classic jolly elf as he directs the elves and reindeer hard at work to make children happy. Nicky accepts the reins of the sleigh and takes off circling above Santa’s Workshop. Suddenly, Nicky finds St. Nicholas sitting with him. St. Nicholas takes the reins and escorts Nicky on a tour to show him how his tradition spread throughout the world in so many various people of so many cultures. St. Nicholas shows Nicky one of the first secret missions he performed. There was an old cobbler with three beautiful daughters. The cobbler owed taxes and did not have the money. The collector said he had until noon the next day to pay or the daughters would be taken and sold as slaves to pay the debt. St. Nicholas shows Nicky how he threw 3 bags of gold coins down the chimney to save them all from the terrible collector. St. Nicholas explains how the image of Santa Claus has become too commercialized and needs help to bring back the Spirit of Sharing that has been lost. He asks Nicky’s help to rekindle the Spirit of Sharing. St. Nicholas tells Nicky that he would be able to help more people if he became a real Santa Claus. Nicky can’t understand how he can become Santa Claus and falls back asleep.Nicky suddenly awakens in bed to spend the rest of that and the next nine nights trying to write down and make sense of everything he experienced. Sara is a bit surprised at his obsession and starts getting frustrated because he’s up all night ‘writing’, sleeping all day and ignoring his family. Nicky is exhausted during this time and barely has the energy to do anything but write, write, write and crumple a mountain of paper all over the house.Sara suggests Nicky write an idea for a major motion picture that could become a major funding source for child relief everywhere. Nicky gets to work on writing a movie idea. Nicky gets it copyrighted in 1996. At the same time he is realizing the zest for teaching is diminishing because he is continually consumed with the project he now calls OPERATION Santa Claus.
Nicky is back in the classroom teaching about global poverty. How 11 million children die a year from preventable and/or curable diseases. Over 5,000 children die each day from diarrhea alone. 7,000 a day from pneumonia, 6,000 from malaria, etc.
After explaining how relief agencies struggled with delivery efforts, a student comments that it appears that it would help immensely if there were an umbrella organization that shared information and helped all the agencies in a specific area. In doing so, they would all be far more efficient. Nicky couldn’t agree more. But how to get them together? They all did the impossible, in very demanding areas. They rightly take much pride in their achievements so they tend to stay autonomous. Nicky realizes OPERATION Santa Claus could be that umbrella organization of shared information so badly needed.Nicky is slowly realizing he must leave teaching to devote his time to making OPERATION Santa Claus work. Sara agrees, the worry is the financial stability, a good job with benefits, especially with children is hard to let go of. Sara believes in Nicky and that St. Nicholas will help them along.
Nicky’s oldest son asks him about Santa Claus that night. Nicky happily reminds him of the story he has shared so often about St. Nicholas. His son wants to know if Santa is real. Nicky looks deeply into his eyes and gladly exclaims, "Yes, son, there really is a Santa Claus, he’s here in the hearts of those of us who believe in him." Nicky vows to his son that he will try to spend his life proving that Santa does indeed exist to him and many others. Nicky now feels he must leave his job and make Santa real somehow.On Friday the 13th of February 1998, Nicky resigns teaching to launch the charity in July. Nicky experiences many challenges and obstacles. He spends a good deal of time dealing with strange requests. He gets calls to bring reindeer to a shopping mall opening and requests to play Santa at birthday parties. Then there were hundreds of calls from parents wanting Santa to talk to their misbehaving children. People didn’t quite understand what OPERATION Santa Claus really is. Sara recommends the name be expanded to Operation Serving Children (OSC), then people will have a better idea. Nicky agrees and expands the name, keeping the holiday program and movie projects under the OPERATION Santa Claus name.Nicky deals poorly with empty promises of so many prominent people in the community that leave him high and dry. So many offered to provide a salary for Nicky to run the charity, Nicky believed in their words, but soon they wouldn’t even return his calls. Volunteers that ran his food program were found hoarding food for themselves and selling it to friends. A board member took a trip to help OSC expand in California and offered to pay his own way and then used OSC’s credit card to fly his girlfriend out there and go shopping on Rodeo Dr. when he was supposed to be purchasing food and clothing for children’s homes there. Another volunteer started running OSC’s web site so Nicky could do other work. He changes some of it, and by putting a few of his own ideas into it, claims it as his own ‘intellectual’ property. An old friend from Boston came along and offered to help with the movie idea. She helps by claiming she held the copyright to OSC. This ended up costing Nicky over $7,000 out of his own pocket in legal expenses. All this often left Nicky feeling quite down, but in the end, challenged all the more to find ways OPERATION Santa Claus can help more people. Sara constantly supports and helps Nicky with fund-raisers and events to get things going. Nothing really works but they both have faith it would somehow work itself out. Nicky realized that OSC had to be unique to survive in a community so involved in many great causes.OSC eventually develops into a relief agency program requiring families to attend financial workshops in exchange for the financial support they need. OSC becomes a back up for other social relief agencies. Globally, OSC’s volunteers hand deliver millions of dollars worth of medicine to third world nations. OSC’s’ goal of 100% of unrestricted and general donations going to provide direct child relief is achieved starting in 2002. By the end of OSC’s fifth year, over $1.5 million worth of relief has been provided to areas in half the USA and 22 other countries.Nicky finds himself in awe of the development of OSC yet realizes that after 5 years without a paycheck, he is at the end of his financial rope. Nicky estimates another several months before bankruptcy. In despair, he gives up on OSC and begins a new career in real estate. The new job creates a great financial potential, yet Nicky feels compelled to keep working on OSC. He and Sara agree to squeeze their money and try for one more year to see if they can make it all happen.
Michael later visits congratulating Nicky for the decision to try again. Michael demonstrates that every decision in life, every moment is important, how every moment is eternal and lasts forever. That’s how important human existence is to the Creator. Michael explains that the time has come. Nicky is ready. There will be three more visitors that night. Nicky is instructed to listen to them very carefully.In the image of Fire, the Angel of Hope appears and takes Nicky back to the places he worked in India and Africa. Nicky was shown how far along they presently were. Great strides were being made to relieve human suffering, one step at a time.
In the image of Water, the Angel of Charity visits to show Nicky how misplaced energy in materialism only brings about anxiety. Nicky learns how much potential and importance humanity possesses to make true dreams, come true.
Finally, in the image of Wind, the Angel of Faith arrives and takes Nicky to the actual North Pole and the true Santa’s Workshop. It truly does exist, in the hearts of so many children and the young at heart. It exists because it lives within the true dreams of so many people’s hearts. Michael joins them and shows Nicky all the food, water, needed products being created and shipped to so many. But much of the supplies were not getting to the ones in need. Nicky saw how greed, war, black market gangs and lack of cooperation amongst relief programs interfered with deliveries. Nicky could see there were major obstacles to overcome. Nicky realized that if all the relief programs were some how connected so they could collaborate more effectively, then the progress would grow exponentially.In a desperate last attempt to make OSC become truly effective, Nicky devotes his full attention to making the movie a reality. Volunteers emerge out of no where and Board members and friends support OSC and start to make connections with people in the financial, film and entertainment industries.
All of this helps Nicky make the necessary Hollywood contacts and the movie project is launched. The premier is set for the Saturday after Thanksgiving, 2005. The success of OPERATION Santa Claus creates a huge funding source for Operation Serving Children, creating an informational agency of global relief with the collaboration of many child relief agencies. Nicky is realizing his dream of becoming a Santa Claus working year round trying to make every day Christmas for needy children.
Year 2025. Celebrating his 50th year as Santa, Nicky is addressing an international conference on global relief progress at OSC’s theme park conference hall. Outside, families are enjoying one of the most amazing high-tech educational amusement parks of all. Children and parents are seeing the results of the world’s response to a collaborative campaign for humanity. Parents are in awe of the new-tech productions of food and re-distribution of what used to be the items they used to discard. Children are in awe of the reindeer and elves entertaining them. Inside the great castle of Santa’s Workshop, Nicky is presiding over a most special banquet. At the head table Nicky, now quite plump and older and with white hair (he would look just like Santa if he could only grow a beard!), addresses the assembly. Gathered in the banquet hall is a collection of the world’s greatest child relief agencies. They are assembled in celebration of their progress and achievements in helping children and the human race everywhere.Nicky goes home to retire telling Sara how he wished he could just grow a nice white beard. After he falls asleep, Michael visits, telling him of a very special reward for all of his faith and hard work that will arrive soon. St. Nicholas arrives to bestow on Nicky the gift of his spirit. First, St. Nicholas returns Nicky to OSC’s Theme Park. At the exit gate, a family is leaving from their day at the park. The little 4-year-old girl holds her mother and father’s hand in the packed parking lot. The family stops at a drive through to get a bite to eat. As they are leaving with their food, the little girl sees a family looking scared and upset on the sidewalk. The little girl asks her parents to see if they can help them. She takes her food and hands it to the boy and girl who are ever so grateful. The parents begin to console a weeping mother.St. Nicholas stands nodding his head in approval. In a whirlwind of the cosmos, St. Nicholas enjoins with Nicky’s spirit and the two become one. Nicky is returned to bed.And Angels Sing.

We hope you can see we have a powerful film. Your involvement can help us achieve our goals stated above. Just think what one weekend at the box-office can do for children in our country and around the world. In so doing, think what showing the world a demonstration of American generosity can do to combat terrorism.
Examples of what some funding may be directed towards:
A fund to create a global umbrella organization of shared information regarding the relief provided by global relief agencies.
A support fund for USA relief agencies to provide food, shelter, and medicine for children and their families.
$10 million will feed 100,000 children for a year.
$10 million will provide 25,000 medicine kits to volunteers traveling around the globe providing more than $500,000,000 worth of medicine.