THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS MIRACLE (2015)

 

Hannah Dunbar (Lacey Chabert) is a successful TV Anchor-woman, but after winning a major promotion to the New York bureau, finds herself wondering what her life would have been had she stayed with the love of her life, Ben Matthews (Tyron Leitso), who she left behind in their home town 10 years before.

After talking to a Salvation Army Santa Claus (Keith MacKechnie) who takes her words as a Christmas wish he transports her to a version of her life where she and Ben where married with a family, Caitlin and Hailie (Milli Wilkinson and Audrey Smallman). Hannah literally becomes a mother overnight and has to navigate the day-to-day challenges of life in the suburbs with Ben and their daughters with comical effect, while simultaneously trying to figure out how to get back or if that’s actually what she wants.

Lacey Chabert is excellent in the lead in this enjoyable and engaging Christmas treat.

WITH EXPECTANT FACES FULL OF SMILES

With expectant faces full of smiles

The children sit around the tree

Waiting to get amongst the gifts

And wondering “What’s Santa got for me”

 

Eagerly the children sit by the tree

Their expectant smiling faces all aglow

Waiting to get amongst the gifts

On the moment when Nan says “go”

FAMILY CHRISTMASES

 

When I think back to those Christmases

I and my brothers and sisters shared

And all the love that filled the house

When no other time quite compared

I realized just how lucky we all were

Lucky we had a family that truly cared

Who gave us love and now that I am older 

I make sure that love is liberally shared

I'VE ALWAYS LOVED MY SANTA # 1

 

I've always loved my Santa

In his Red Velvet suit

With his long white beard

And cheeks all rosy and cute

His deep throated laughter

All happy and jolly

And he loves his naughty

Little Miss Molly

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS STORY (2009)

 

When the Naughty/Nice list is produced at the Northpole Santa is stunned to find that there are more Naughty children on the list than Nice for the first time ever so Santa (Douglas Campbell) refuses to go on with Christmas and leaves with Mrs. Claus (Rebecca Toolan) on their first Hawaiian holiday.

This is great news for firstborn daughter Rudolfa (Mary Donnelly-Haskell) who is waiting in the wings to succeed him and wants to turn Christmas into a creepy prank festival, but her gentle younger sister Kristen (Kathy Ireland) begs for the chance to save Christmas by redeeming a family who have lost the Christmas spirit, the Morgan’s.

 

Workaholic Widower Bill Morgan (John Dye) spends all his time on business and a budding affair with a close, equally workaholic spinster colleague, Harley Jones (Rachelle Carson) while his brother-in-law, Uncle Johnny (Wayne Thomas Yorke) acts as a poor role model to the cynical, materialistic, spoiled brats Kyle (James Kirk) and Brittany (Kirsten Prout).

Kristen arrives at the Morgan’s as the new au-pair, of which she has had a long list of predecessors, and slowly wins the kids over, helped by Johnny, who fears eviction, and begins to restore the Christmas spirit in the household which will ultimately save Christmas and thwart Rudolfa’s evil plan.

IT WAS IN THE BELFRY

It was in the belfry

On Christmas Eve

High in the tower

I tried to retrieve

A poor little kitten

Who was stuck

When suddenly

The bell was struck

I lost my footing

And began to fall

I thought this is

The end of it all

So I had onto grab

Or surely die

My Ding dong

Merrily on high

KEEP CHRISTMAS WELL

 

Keep Christmas well

Embrace its spirit

Feel its warmth and joy

Hold it in your heart

And keep its embers alight

Carry it with you

From one year to the next

So it will never end