Prancer is a 1989 family film starring Sam Elliott, Cloris Leachman and Rebecca Harrell and was directed by John D. Hancock. It is set in Three Oaks, Michigan, where town exteriors were filmed. Filming also occurred at the Old Republic House in New Carlisle, Indiana, La Porte, Indiana, and at Starved Rock State Park in Utica, Illinois.
Jessica Riggs, Rebecca Harrell is an 8yearold girl being raised by her older brother Steve John Duda and father John Sam Elliot. Their apple farm has fallen on hard times. John is temporarily being helped by his sisterinlaw Sarah Rutanya Alda.While walking home after a school pageant, Jessica witnesses a plastic reindeer falling from a Christmas decoration being hung above a street in her town. She concludes that the reindeer that fell was Prancer from the order given in the poem A Visit from St. Nicholas a.k.a. The Night Before Christmas. ........
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