The Ultimate Christmas Present
| The Ultimate Christmas Present | |
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Promotional poster
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| Created by | The Walt Disney Company |
| Written by | Hallie Einhorn Michael Hitchcock |
| Directed by | Greg Beeman |
| Starring |
Hallee Hirsh Brenda Song |
| Theme music composer | Phil Marshall |
| Country of origin | United States |
| Original language(s) | English |
| Production | |
| Producer(s) | Harvey Frand |
| Running time | 85 minutes |
| Production company(s) | Disney Channel Original Movies |
| Distributor | Buena Vista Television |
| Release | |
| Original network | Disney Channel |
| Original release | December 1, 2000 |
The Ultimate Christmas Present is a 2000 Disney Channel Original Movie starring Brenda Song and Hallee Hirsh. It premiered December 1, 2000 on Disney Channel as part of their Christmas season.
Two teen girls, Samantha Elizabeth "Sam" Kwan (age 13) (Brenda Song) and Allison Rachel "Allie" Thompson (age 13) (Hallee Hirsh) find a weather machine at a shack in the woods. After learning of its controls, they use it to make it snow in Los Angeles.
It turns out that the weather machine belongs to Santa Claus (John B. Lowe) and he informs Mrs. Claus about this. To help Santa Claus, she sends two elves, Crumpet (John Salley) and Sparky (Bill Fagerbakke).
A weather man named Edwin Hadley (Peter Scolari) tries to figure out what's causing the strange weather and track it down to keep himself from getting fired by his boss Mr. Martino (Jason Schombing). Edwin's boss expects Edwin to not act all boring and get down to the bottom of the sudden snow appearances.
When Sparky and Crumpet catch up to Santa Claus, they find a footprint of a type of girl shoes that are only made in California. Santa and the elves set off to interrogate each girl on the naughty list that wears those type of shoes.
Soon, the snowstorm gets so large that it spreads to San Francisco and Allie's dad gets snowed in at the airport and may not make it home in time for Christmas. Allie tries to turn it off, but over night it turns itself back on and it creates a blizzard. They are unable to make it do anything now. Samantha shares sad stories with Allie about how her dad would spend Christmas, while Allie is sad about her dad missing Christmas.
During the blizzard, Mr. Martino tells Edwin to handle the story about the cast of Friends not being able to leave their studio. Edwin manages to trace the weather phenomenon to Allie's house. Due to traffic, he manages to borrow a guy's snowmobile.
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