Dashing Through the Snow

Cinephile deep dive

The take

Tim Story directs. Christopher Duskin behind the camera. Christopher Lennertz scores. David Rennie cuts. Runs lean at under 100 minutes. Produced in United States of America. Dialogue in English.

Trivia

Things worth knowing

• 1Released 3 years ago.
• 2Directed by Tim Story, shot by Christopher Duskin. Note their partnership — DPs and directors often return to each other across a career.
• 3Original score by Christopher Lennertz. Worth a dedicated listen after — most great films lose half their impact without the score.
• 4Editor David Rennie shaped the rhythm. On an edit-heavy film, the editor does more to control your pulse than the director.
• 5Lil Rel Howery and Ludacris and Madison Skye Validum carry the top of the cast.
• 6Marketing tagline: "The legend has arrived... hide the milk and cookies.".
• 7IMDB entry: tt5608166 — still the authoritative cross-reference for credits and trivia.

The technical file

Cinematography

Christopher Duskin

Original score

Christopher Lennertz

Editing

David Rennie

Production design

Danielle Osborne

Costume design

Salvador Pérez Jr.

Runtime

91 min · 1h 31m

Aspect ratio (typical)

1.37:1 (Academy)

Status

Released

Original language

EN

Certification (US)

PG

IMDB

Dashing Through the Snow (2023) ↗

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Trailers & featurettes

Watch the pieces

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  Film Clip

  Clip · Official
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  Dashing Through The Snow | Jingle Bells | Disney+

  Teaser · Official
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  Official Trailer

  Trailer · Official

Community reviews

What people are saying

• r96sk2024-07-30
  ★ 6/10

  It almost works thanks to Lil Rel Howery, but <em>'Dashing Through the Snow'</em> ultimately falls flat. Howery does produce some good stuff as Santa, though he - as with the film in general, really - isn't given enough to work with to make it a success. There is mild amusement throughout, but the film needed more entertainment from its plot and much better pacing to be enjoyable. The bad guys are particularly poorly written and used, while the Xmas vibes aren't really all that abundant. The cast, namely Howery, Ludacris and Madison Skye Validum, all do try and are the film's strongest element. I just needed more from elsewhere with this, I could feel my interest waning from around the midway point.

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• GorgonVaktmester2025-01-19

  If there's one thing Disney can in addition to animated movies, it's family movies. Unfortunately, this movie does not join their ranks of high-quality family movies. There isn't a single well-known actor in it, and the ones that are in it aren't necessarily picked from the top shelf. There is a girl among those who can be said to be the main characters, and she is basically the best actress. In this movie, Disney goes to great lengths to say that Santa is not the Santa we know from other movies. He's African-American, wears a burgundy-red suit and his beard is actually black, but was dyed white a while ago. Now, however, the regrowth is very strong so it's about 50/50 black and white. According to Santa himself in the movie, the fact that he should have a white beard is something we Scandinavians (I'm from Norway) came up with, and then that impression has stuck. The plot of the movie is a separated social worker, working for the police, who gets a call out on Christmas Eve while celebrating Christmas with his 9-year-old daughter, and therefore has to take her with him. He is called out to help Santa Claus himself, but of course no one believes that he really is Santa Claus, they think he is a mentally disturbed person. Santa is on the run from some bad-guys working for a corrupt politician who on TV says he will fight for the running of an institution for the homeless, while in reality he wants to close it down. The social worker and her daughter are then dragged into that. The movie has some good scenes, but all in all it's not good enough. As a family movie, it works well. The target audience among children is those who are the same age as the girl in the movie, i.e. around 9 years old. Adults will also find a number of references that make it suitable for them too. But as a Disney movie, it was a disappointment.

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Production companies

Who made it

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  Will Packer Productions

  US

• SM

  Smart Entertainment

  US

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  Walt Disney Pictures

  US

Key crew

• Executive ProducerJohanna Byer
• ProducerWill Packer
• Executive ProducerTim Story
• ProducerJohn Jacobs
• Executive ProducerRoss T. Fanger
• Executive ProducerZac Unterman
• EditorDavid Rennie
• EditorDavid S. Clark
• Production DesignDanielle Osborne
• CastingLeah Daniels-Butler
• Costume DesignSalvador Pérez Jr.
• Still PhotographerSteve Dietl
• Music CoordinatorTasha Peter

Themes & keywords

What it's about, really

• holiday
• santa claus
• christmas

Release history · US

When it landed

• Digital2023-11-17PG· Disney+

Also known as

International titles

• پر ذوق و شوق در میان برفIR
• Karda KoşmakTR
• Мчимся мы сквозь снегRU
• Dashing Through the SnowUS
• 狂奔向聖誕TW