Jingle All the Way
Two dads, one toy, no prisoners.
Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son.After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas.
- Director
- Brian Levant
- Signature
- Wonder · Action · Craft
- Worldwide
- $130M
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Howard Langston, a salesman for a mattress company, is constantly kept busy at his job, disappointing his son. After he misses his son's karate exposition, Howard vows to make it up to him by buying an action figure of his son's favorite television hero for Christmas. Unfortunately for Howard, it is Christmas Eve, and every store is sold out of Turbo Man. Now, Howard must travel all over town and compete with everybody else to find a Turbo Man action figure.
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Box Office & Release
Jingle All the Way returned 2.2× its budget worldwide.
- Budget
- $60M
- Opening weekend
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- Domestic gross
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- International gross
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- Worldwide gross
- $130M
- Release date
- Nov 21, 1996
- Runtime
- 1h 29m
- MPAA rating
- —
- Language
- English
- Country
- United States of America
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