Favorite Christmas Movie

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A Christmas Story (You’ll shoot your eye out, Kid!)
The Polar Express
The Santa Clause trilogy (but I prefer the first 2 over the 3rd movie)
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
Frosty the Snowman
The Christmas parts of Jesus of Nazareth
A Boyfriend for Christmas; Single Santa Seeks Mrs Claus and its sequel Meet the Santas (these are Hallmark channel movies)
Once Upon a Christmas/Twice Upon a Christmas (movies with Kathy Ireland as the daughter of Santa)
Nestor the Long Eared Christmas Donkey
Life and Adventures of Santa Clause
Disney’s A Christmas Carol

edit: forgot to add two!

Home Alone And The ORIGINAL Miracle on 34th Street. Natalie Wood is perfect as little Susan. While I like the remake, I prefer the original. What is interesting in the remake is that the actress Mara Wilson is/was Jewish and she really did not believe in Santa Clause, so she wasn’t really acting…she really was not believing.
 
Since You Went Away. Made in 1944 with Claudette Colbert, Jennifer Jones, Joseph Cotton, Shirley Temple, and Monty Wooley.

It is about a family during the war with dad gone away.
Has a great Christmas ending and is usually on TV around Christmas.
 
55TexasRose75 said:
I too am doing a search for the “Commerce Day” movie. I KNOW I saw it and I think the main Character was Mac Davis. I know he had a variety type show in the mid 70’s so maybe it was just a Skit within his show. It soooo made an impression on me, I have never forgotten it. I tried a google search on Mac Davis but it was not listed as a movie credit, which is why I think it may have been within his show. I would really like to get a copy of this movie/ skit. That is if the commercial powers that be didn’t destroy it, so more people wouldn’t become aware of their plans to do away with true “reason for the season” Christ! :confused::rolleyes:
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Here you go:

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My favorite movie is “The Night They Saved Christmas”, with Jaclyn Smith, Paul LeMat, Art Carney, Paul Williams & June Lockhart. Unfortunately it hasn’t been shown for the last several years and I have not been able to find it on VHS or DVD.

Then “The Best Christmas Pageant Ever”, which I watch every single Christmas. The sight of the tough little girl imitating the image of Mary makes me bawl every time.

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation is of course on the list, as are “It’s a Wonderful Life” and the original “Miracle on 34th Street” (although I don’t mind the version with Sebastian Cabot as Santa).

One movie that I have only seen a few times is an oldie about the woman who lives on the street and when her daughter is coming home for Christmas, her street friends set things up so that the daughter can keep believing her mother is well-off and living more than comfortably. Cannot for the life of me remember the name.
 
Phemie said:
One movie that I have only seen a few times is an oldie about the woman who lives on the street and when her daughter is coming home for Christmas, her street friends set things up so that the daughter can keep believing her mother is well-off and living more than comfortably. Cannot for the life of me remember the name.
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*Pocketful of Miracles *(Paramount, 1961, Glenn Ford, Bette Davis)

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Anything based on Damon Runyon and/or featuring the luscious Ann-Margaret is an a-ok Christmas movie in my book :aok:
 
tee_eff_em said:
*Pocketful of Miracles *(Paramount, 1961, Glenn Ford, Bette Davis)

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Anything based on Damon Runyon and/or featuring the luscious Ann-Margaret is an a-ok Christmas movie in my book :aok:
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Thank you so much, now that I see the title I think “OF COURSE!” I had looked for any movie with ‘miracle’ in the title but that one never came up.
 
Emmet Otter’s JugBand Christmas… I have the old VHS version w/Kermit the frog narrating but the newer version doesn’t have Kermit in it … not sure why??? Anyway, love it, has a wonderful message also.
 
In addition to some of the ones already mentioned, I highly recommend O. Henry’s Gift of the Magi. This is a story about love and sacrifice under the worst possible circumstances. Della and Jim, with their youth, are penniless, yet, they sacrifice whatever little each one has in order to give the other partner a small token as proof of their love. It is a short story, so the only movie version I’ve found is in a film with four others. The title is O. Henry’s Full House. It’s an old [c. 1952] movie in black and white. [Look for a cameo appearance of Marilyn Monroe in one of her first films, *The Cop and the Anthem]. Another that I highly recommend in the series is The Last Leaf. All of O Henry’s stories have an ironic ending, and these are no different.

You might have trouble finding it on TV media, but the Turner Classic Movies channel runs it two or three times a year. You won’t be sorry for the trouble to find it. Good luck, and enjoy.

If you are in for a good cry, try All Mine To Give. It’s not really a Christmas story [much like *It’s a Wonderful Life isn’t] but takes place on Christmas Eve. I’ve seen it only once because I can’t bear the sadness, but it does have a happy ending.

All of the above are suitable for children.
 
Pocketful of Miracles, Emmett Otter’s Jugband Christmas, It’s a Wonderful Life, Charlie Brown’s Christmas, the Rankin-Bass stop-motion stuff, A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott’s and the Muppets’ one), Christmas Vacation. 🙂
 
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation, the first Santa Claus with Tim Allen, Jack Frost.
 
There are just so many good ones out there that it’s hard to choose. I love *A Charlie Brown Christmas *and *Christmas in Connecticut *is another great one. But, I’d have to say that the 2007 *The Nativity Story * starring Keisha Castle-Hughes ranks pretty high on my list. I just feel so in-the-moment when I watch that one.
 
MJE, I just watched that one a few days ago. A definite gem of a movie, isn’t it?
 
MJE said:
The Best Christmas Pagent Ever!
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Our drama group did the play a few years ago and someone called the theatre to complain about the fact that we were making fun of welfare families. They tore a strip off the manager of the theatre – a venue we were simply renting. Manager told us she was tempted to ask them if they’d even bothered to watch anything but the first 10 minutes.

I don’t know about anyone one else but there was certainly a family like that in my life. And we weren’t always kind to them, a lot like the kids in the show.
 
I got a bunch, but:

“Lord of the Rings: Fellowship of the Rings” Okay, why is this a Christmas movie? 1) All 3 films in the Trilogy were released at Christmas time, so I always associate them with that. 2) The date the Fellowship leaves Rivendell on their quest is, in fact by our calendar, December 25. (BTW, Tolkien wrote a series of letters over the years from Father Christmas to his children which are really delightful, describing the goings-on at the North Pole. I used to tread these to my kids when they were younger and they really enjoyed them. They’ve been collected in book form as “Letters from Father Christmas”. Over the last couple of years, we’ve done a marathon Sunday watching all 3 (expanded) films in a row.

“The Lion and the Wardrobe” - Hey, Father Christmas makes a cameo appearance in this one too.
 
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