The Christmas Dragon
2014 film
The Christmas Dragon is a 2014 American family film directed by John Lyde.
Plot
Ayden, an orphan in Medieval Europe who lost her parents to a dragon, receives a magic crystal from a dying elf to bring back Christmas from becoming a fading memory. She and the other orphans alongside wayward adult Airk must go to the North to meet Father Christmas.
Cast
Bailee Johnson as Ayden
Jake Stormoen as Airk
Paris Warner as Rosalynne
Jacob Buster as Rand
Ruby Jones as Hoyt
Melanie Stone as Saerwen
Talon Ackerman as Garrett
Adam Johnson as Father Christmas / Roki
Renny Grames as Gazared
Danny James as Bomtall
Eve Mauro as Aesa
Reception
Common Sense Media gave the film one star.
Stormoen won the Best Supporting Actor category at the Utah Film Awards the next year.
Legacy
It was featured as the final episode of the 13th season of the cult science fiction series Mystery Science Theater 3000.
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Object files, edition statements, performance records and contemporary criticism preserve different stages of the work’s history. The source revision retrieved here is dated Aug 18, 2026. The linked authority identifier is Q21869235. None of the 1 selected statements returned an explicit reference. The first chronological checks are 2014.
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