Arnold Schwarzenegger plays a chronically absent salesman-father racing across town on Christmas Eve to track down the one sold-out action figure his son desperately wants, competing against every other frantic parent in town — chief among them a rival played by Sinbad. Brian Levant's holiday comedy turns the commercialized frenzy of Christmas shopping into a slapstick action set piece. Critically panned at the time, it has since taken on a wry second life as an accidental commentary on holiday consumerism.