Underplayed Gems

Yes, Virginia (2009)

Yes, Virginia poster
Original title
Yes Virginia
Directed by
Pete Circuitt
Genre
Christmas film
Country
United States
Runtime
22 min
Rating
7.1 of 10 from 27 voters
Elsewhere
IMDb
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How it feels

A little girl named Virginia questions whether Santa Claus is real. With encouragement from her father, she writes to a newspaper editor for an answer.

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What happens

Yes, Virginia is an animated Christmas television special created by Wayne Best and Matt MacDonald, and produced by JWT Productions, The Ebeling Group, and Starz Animation, with sponsorship from Macy's. It first aired December 11, 2009 on CBS. It was based on Francis Pharcellus Church's famous 1897 editorial, "Yes, Virginia, there is a Santa Claus" in The (New York) Sun. The special featured the voice talents of Bea Miller as Virginia O'Hanlon and Neil Patrick Harris as her father, Philip. There was a previous animated special, Yes, Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus, broadcast in 1974. (from Wikipedia, CC BY-SA)

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