![]() The "Keystone Kops" inspired chaos will pale in comparison to what will happen when Mark captures Santa Claus all for himself.Īfter he's done with that chaos, he returns home just before his parents arrive and his father discovers the tree is missing. ![]() The pie man hits one of the firemen, and the rented stake truck chases the squabbling couple. He makes an antique fire truck escape from the local fire department, and though the firemen catch the truck, they have no control over where it goes or what it does. He makes a pie man and his wife throw pies in each other's faces and chase each other around town. He makes a local police car take off and chase the man and his truck, while the cop chases the car. He sees a man picking up potato chip boxes to place in the back of his rental truck, which suddenly takes off. The first of these wishes involves having an hour of power, which includes transforming vases in the house, turning nighttime into daylight and causing chaos in town. The tree urges him to say the magic words, and the tree arrives inside, fully decorated. He inspects the tree and finds out it suddenly starts to talk. In reality, he just wants to check on his tree. Mark himself decides to stay home claiming he's going to wrap some presents. On Christmas Eve, Mark's parents and older sister are preparing some last minute Christmas shopping. Eventually he gives up and let's it stay in his yard. Later, Henry spends much of his time trying to chop the tree down, but not a single ax or saw has any effect on it. After she returns to the house, he trips over his broken lawn mower as Mark's pet turtle casually eats the grass and weeds in the family's back yard. His mother comes out to investigate and when his father tells her what happened, she jokes that he should use the axe if he wants to chop the tree down. While his mother is talking on the telephone, she notices he collides with this new tree that seemed to spring up out of nowhere. Mark's father struggles to start his lawn mower, but once he does, he doesn't seem to have any control of the mower. The next day, his parents are at the breakfast nook, where Henry is baffled over the lack of newspaper coverage over the thunderstorm from the previous night. He goes out to the back yard, plants the seed, says the three words, and with a clap of thunder and lighting, the tree appears instantly as he runs back in the house. That night, he talks to his pet turtle Icabod, and refreshes his memory on the steps to getting his magic Christmas tree to work. ![]() Within a month, Mark is at the dinner table on Thanksgiving, seeking a piece of turkey with a wishbone (a key ingredient to the spell), but his father Henry refuses to give it to him, until his mother urges him to do so. She informs him that getting the tree to work requires three magic words (apparently "Rembum, Karrynum, Pom.") As a reward for helping her retrieve her cat, the witch gives him a ring with an image of Santa Claus, containing the seed for a tree, which grows at an astoundingly abnormal rate and comes to life to grants three wishes. She also admits to being a witch, and make him realize his fear of witches is groundless. Additionally, the house changed from a wooden Victorian structure to a stone cottage, and the old lady explains what happened when he tried to rescue her cat. When he gets close enough, the tree branch breaks causing him to fall to the ground as the cat jumps out of the tree.Īs he wakes up, the film changes from black and white to color, and he discovers the old lady is a witch after all. Just then Mark arrives at the house and is caught by the old lady, who coerces him into climbing the tree to retrieve her cat. Mark's two friends get close enough to the house but run away at the last minute. While they're on their way to the house, the old lady at the Finch place is struggling to get her pet cat Lucifer out of a tree. Obviously, the house is believed to be haunted by many kids in the neighborhood. Mark tells his friends that he plans to explore a nearby old decrepit Victorian House on Elm Street known as "the old Finch Place," and dares his friends to join him on his quest. During lunch, the three boys discuss their plans for Halloween. Mark and his two friends Dave and Tommy are elementary school students who are having lunch outside of the school building. Synopsis SPOILER: Plot details or story follow.
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