Plot Synopsis

When a 10-year-old boy loses hips parents in a car accident, he goes to live his struggling aunt in a tacky Florida hotel where she tends bar in exchange for a free room. The boy soon concocts a wild story about a elderly guest who he decides is Santa Claus on summer vacation. The old man admits to being Santa but asks to remain incognito. As TV stations pick up the story, the hotel is deluged with business. A undercover cop shows up looking to arrest the senior Santa but it turns out that no one is quite what they seem--yet everyone gets what they deserve.