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Tim Burton's The Nightmare Before Christmas is a 1993 animated musical film written and produced by Tim Burton, directed by Henry Selick and scored by Danny Elfman. The film was based on Burton's characters and original story. It was released alongside The Wrong Trousers, a 1993 short film.

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The film begins in Halloween Town, a magical world inhabited by various creatures who make elaborate plans for Halloween every year on October 31, hoping for each Halloween to be superior to the last ("This is Halloween"). Though the residents of Halloween Town are always eager for a trick or a good scare, they never truly mean to hurt anyone. The land is ruled by Jack Skellington, an undead skeleton who is thought to be the scariest being in the entire world. As the townspeople celebrate their annual ceremony, Jack wonders whether there is more to life than scaring people ("Jack's Lament"). Meanwhile, Sally, a Frankenstein's monster-like Rag Doll, pines for Jack from afar, although she is constantly thwarted by her domineering creator, Doctor Finklestein.


While wandering in the hinterlands, Jack and his ghostly pet dog, Zero, encounter portals leading to other holiday-themed worlds. Jack accidentally enters Christmas Town, a land of eternal winter, and is amazed by the population's joyfulness ("What's This?"). Jack, wishing to embrace this culture, quickly returns to Halloween Town, where he presents the townspeople with his slightly inaccurate impressions of Christmas. While Jack may slightly understand Christmas, the townspeople do not understand it at all and compare everything Jack says to their ideas of Halloween. Nonetheless interested in the holiday, the townspeople agree to celebrate Christmas this year ("Town Meeting Song").


Jack decides to operate the holiday, eventually becoming obsessed with Christmas and deciding to usurp the role of ""Sandy Claws", as Jack mistakenly calls Santa Claus ("Jack's Obsession"). Every resident is assigned a task, including Sally who, alone of them, fears that his plans will lead to ruin. There is some foreshadowing to suggest that she is correct; because the people of Halloween Town have lived all their lives by scaring people, the Christmas gifts and decorations they create are more frightening and grotesque than pleasing. Jack ignores Sally's warning and commissions her to create his Christmas outfit. Jack then assigns Lock, Shock, and Barrel, a trio of mischievous, child-like monsters representing trick-or-treaters, to transport 'Sandy Claws' to Halloween Town ("Kidnap the Sandy Claws"). They, after mistakenly capturing (and, on Jack's orders, returning) the Easter Bunny, successfully kidnap Santa. Against Jack's wishes and largely for their own amusement, the trio deliver Santa to the lair of Oogie Boogie, a gambling-addict boogey man who plots to play a game with Santa's life ("Oogie Boogie's Song").


Christmas Eve arrives soon after. Although Sally attempts to stop him, Jack embarks into the sky on a coffin-like sled pulled by skeletal reindeer (created by Finklestein), hoping to deliver presents to children around the world. While the townspeople are overjoyed, Sally wanders off alone to be miserable ("Sally's Song"). As Jack begins delivering gifts, children are horrified by their monstrous, animated presents, which include shrunken heads, man-eating wreaths, vampiric teddy bears, 30-foot snakes, and pull-string ducks dotted with bloody bullet holes. Their parents believe Jack to be an imposter attempting to imitate Santa, and the military is eventually commissioned to shoot Jack out of the sky. Jack gets shot with a missile and crashes into a cemetery; the townspeople witness this and believes that Jack did not survive (even for one of the undead), but in reality he recovers from a faint. Although he is initially depressed by the destruction he had caused, he realizes he is still the ruler of Halloween Town and can bring joy to the world in his own way ("Poor Jack").

Sally attempts to free Santa, only to be captured by Oogie Boogie. Just as they are about to be killed by immersion in a foul stew, Jack arrives and challenges their captor. Oogie Boogie flees, placing his complex, sophisticated, deadly gaming machines in Jack's path as obstacles. However, Oogie Boogie becomes tangled in one of his own machines and is (with Jack's assistance) split open, revealing himself to be merely an animated sackful of insects. Most of Oogie's "bugs" fall into the stew and are boiled alive. A final bug, believed to be the "main bug", attempts to flee, but is squashed by Santa.

Freed, Santa reprimands Jack before setting off to correct Jack's Christmas by exchanging all of the frightening toys for more pleasant playthings. After Santa leaves, Jack asks Sally of how she had gotten into Oogie's casino. Sally tries to tell Jack she wanted to help him, but only stutters. Jack then realizes that Sally loves him. Jack and Sally then return to Halloween Town, aided by the Mayor and a reformed Lock, Shock, and Barrel. Santa flies over Halloween Town and gives it snow as a gift to the town, signifying that there be no hard feelings between him and Jack. The townspeople are confused at first, but start to play in the snow, and soon realize that there is to the world more than just scaring people. Sally discovers that she has been replaced in Doctor Finklestein's service by another creation (who purposely bears a very strong resemblance to the Doctor himself), leaving her free to pursue Jack's attention. She picks a flower and heads towards Spiral Hill, and Jack notices she's leaving the celebration. As she sits on the hill, Jack follows her and the two realize they are "simply meant to be." They then share a kiss while Zero contently looks on from afar ("Finale/Reprise").

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