Santa's Apprentice
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| Directed by | Luc Vinciguerra |
| Produced by | Tanguy Olivier |
| Written by | Alexandre Reverend |
| Starring | Jack Versace Shane Jacobson Hugh Sherian Delta Goodrem |
| Music by | Nerida Tyson-Chew |
| Edited by | Celine Kelepikis |
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| Distributed by | Gaumont Alphanim Gaumont |
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77 Minutes |
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France Australia Ireland |
| Language | English French German Italian |
| Box office | $5 Million |
Santa's Apprentice (original French title L'Apprenti Père Noel) is a French-Australian-Irish animated film produced and animated by Gaumont-Alphanim (now Gaumont Animation) in 2010. Avril Stark Entertainment and Cartoon Saloon provided additional animation for the film. It's also based from the animated TV series SantApprentice.
The movie opens in Sydney, Australia where Nicholas and his best friend Felix, gazing at the department store window seeing what Santa's workshop looks like. They reside at the orphanage where all the Children were orphans. The bully, Grincroch, picks on Nicholas that Santa doesn't exist as he asks him that he's afraid of heights. But, Nicholas manages to retrieve a toy for the child after climbing up the orphanage fence. Nicholas was pure of heart believing Christmas and Santa. But on Christmas Eve, Nicholas's best friend Felix, gets adopted by his new parents and gives his lucky charm to Nicholas as Felix with his new parents move to America. During Christmas Eve dinner, Little Beatrice gives some chocolate to Nicholas as he introduced himself to her. Nicholas and Little Beatrice sees a shooting star as Beatrice is to be lucky star to have the dream of best Christmas.
At the North Pole, The Council of Retired Santas convince Santa Claus to appoint his new apprentice that a person must be an orphan whose heart is pure as Santa looks at the globe and found a boy in Sydney, Australia. That night, Humphrey the head elf chooses which boy will become a new Santa. At first, he chose Grincroch but Santa knew that he is not the chosen one. So Santa chooses Nicholas and takes him to the North Pole to train Nicholas to become a new Santa once he retires.
The next day, Nicholas wakes up and meets Mrs. Lovejoy, Santa's wife and receives the little Polar Bear the one that Nicholas saw at the department store came to life as a pet and names him Rufus. During the months prior to next Christmas, Nicholas tries his best training hard being his apprentice, learns the secrets from Santa, learn to climb up and go down the chimneys and making toys to deliver to the children of the world on Christmas Eve. Meanwhile in America, Felix and his new parents have several problems that they can no longer afford their home and they move to a mobile home.
A day before Christmas Eve, the gifts were accidentally set on fire; Santa's beard was burnt as it was Nicholas's fault. But Nicholas manages to clean the toys after he accidentally burned with the fire-cracker toy he made. At the orphanage, Mrs. Poulmer, the caretaker of the orphanage, cheers Little Beatrice up and gives Felix's letter. She knows that Nicholas was Santa's Apprentice. Felix Receives a letter from the orphanage and he writes to Nicholas to deliver the message at the North Pole.
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