This chapter interrogates the representation of fatherhood in American Christmas films released from the early 2000s to the present. The redemption of the (white) father, an enduring trope across Hollywood cinema, is given fresh urgency at Christmas, a time when the sanctity of home and family is particularly over-determined. The opposing paternal figures of Santa and Scrooge, both indelibly linked with the cultural traditions of a European-American Christmas, provide a framework through which to understand these narratives of redemption. Father figures sometimes operate as latter-day Santas, with the ability to bestow festive magic and reunite a fractured family; more often, they experience a Scrooge-like epiphany, discovering the transformative and reparatory powers of committed, emotionally engaged fatherhood that echoes wider cultural shifts in contemporary American constructions of masculinity and parenthood.