<Tr> <Th> Budget </Th> <Td> $22 million </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Th> Box office </Th> <Td> $189.8 million </Td> </Tr> <P> The Santa Clause is a 1994 American Christmas fantasy family comedy film directed by John Pasquin . The first film in the Santa Clause film series, it stars Tim Allen as Scott Calvin, an ordinary man who accidentally causes Santa Claus to fall from his roof on Christmas Eve . When he and his young son, Charlie, finish St. Nick's trip and deliveries, they go to the North Pole where Scott learns that he must become the new Santa and convince those he loves that he is indeed Father Christmas . </P> <P> This was Pasquin and Allen's first movie collaboration after they both worked together on the TV series Home Improvement . Pasquin and Allen would later work again on the films Jungle 2 Jungle and Joe Somebody, and on the television series Last Man Standing . </P>

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