North Station (2002)

Name: North Station
Genre: Drama, Kids & Family
Released: 2002-11-08

1h 51m

Running Time

Plot.

In 1950, in a small village called Northern Station, Samuel, a young mailman and his girlfriend, Évelyne, spend hours replying to letters that children have sent to Santa Claus. While delivering the letters on Christmas Eve, Samuel dies of cold in the forest. He finds himself in the magic land of Santa Claus, where he becomes an elf in charge of answering Santa’s mail. Fifty years later, Samuel opens a letter from Satia, a young girl from Northern Station who asks Santa Claus if he will save her grandmother, who is seriously ill. With the help of his friend, Howie, the young elf decides to go to the village for grant the child’s wish. However, it turns out that Satia’s grandmother is none other than Évelyne.

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Details.

Release Date
November 8, 2002

Original Name
Station Nord

Status
Released

Running Time
1h 51m

Filming Locations
Saint-Alphonse-Rodriguez · Olympic Stadium (Montreal), Canada

Genres
Drama Kids & Family

Last updated: 2024-11-06

This Movie Is About.

letter to santa claus

Wiki.

North Station (French: Station Nord) is a Canadian children's comedy film, directed by Jean-Claude Lord and released in 2002.

The film is set in the town of North Station, where children's letters to Santa Claus (Benoît Brière) were delivered for many years and answered by a local family; after the death of his grandfather, Samuel (Xavier Morin-Lefort) and his girlfriend Évelyne (Roxanne Gaudette-Loiseau) decide to carry on the tradition, but Samuel goes missing and is presumed dead after trying to deliver the letters in a snowstorm, when in fact he has been saved and taken to Santa's workshop at the North Pole. When a letter arrives fifty years later from Satia, the granddaughter of Évelyne (Renée Claude), requesting Santa's help in curing Évelyne of cancer, Samuel becomes motivated to go out to reunite with his lost love.

The cast also includes Lansana Kourouma, Catherine Florent, Genevieve Déry, Nathalie Simard, Gaston Lepage and Louis-Georges Girard.

The film was released in theatres on November 11, 2002.

The film received a Jutra Award nomination for Best Art Direction at the 5th Jutra Awards in 2003.