When she looked down, the little girl she was cradling was only a decomposing brittle skeleton.She thought that she awoke from her nightmare, but she was sleeping-walking to her bathroom, where the 4-pronged water faucet knob grasped at her like fingers, and Freddy""s leering, laughing face appeared in her mirror""s reflection.The spotlight moves from the book to the impish, effervescent Jiminy Cricket, who finishes the song, perched on a shelf above the book.She reacts with great poise - she pulls out her vanity mirror, cleans up the smudged lipstick on her lips, and then reapplies the lipstick before leaving - without a word.Don""t you see? It""s not just Kris that""s on trial, it""s everything he stands for.It""s kindness and joy and love and all the other intangibles."The likeable film posed the question: Was the radical Santa Claus character (Kris Kringle) real or just plain delusional and crazy? The Macy""s Santa was compelled to prove himself by enduring a psychological evaluation, corporate competition, and even a court case.