A five-hankie Christmas/figure-skating movie of primary appeal to young girls, Blizzard is an earnest fable awash in broken hearts, best friends moving away and the loneliness of persecuted "new kids."
It also has the single weirdest-cast Santa Claus ever (or at least since Billy Bob Thornton) -- Christopher Plummer, whose vulpine features don't evoke Kris Kringle so much as Saruman from Lord Of The Rings.
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