The Santa Clause (1994)

Plotzle Original · Puzzle #7 · April 20, 2026 · Fantasy / Drama

Six plot descriptions for The Santa Clause (1994). One is the real plot. Five are convincing fakes. Read them and guess which is real.

1. A woman addicted to prescription painkillers attends a rehabilitation center where patients create fantasy personas during group therapy sessions and she adopts the identity of a benevolent gift-giver to avoid confronting her past.
2. An elderly shopkeeper who crafts wooden toys believes each item holds the spirit of its maker and gives his final creation to a terminally ill boy while preparing for his own death.
3. A contract dispute arises when a shopping mall Santa claims he was wrongfully terminated and the arbitration process reveals that his replacement has been falsifying background checks for seasonal employees across multiple states.
4. A corporate lawyer revisits his childhood hometown for the holidays and discovers that the imaginary friend he created after his father's death now appears to other grieving children in the area.
5. Two estranged brothers inherit their grandfather's failing amusement park and argue over whether to sell the property or restore its original winter festival that once brought joy to immigrant families during the Depression.
6. A divorced father and his son find a man who fell off their roof on Christmas Eve, and when the father puts on the man's coat, he gradually transforms into Santa Claus.