THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS BELLS ARE RINGING (2018)

 

30-year-old Samantha (Emilie Ullerup) is a Boston-based free-lance photographer following in her mother's footsteps, but she is trying to get a staff job at the Boston Messenger but can’t quite make it.

So, she is heading back to the family's Cape Cod summer home, where she hasn't been since she was seventeen, and the reason for the trip is to celebrate the Christmas Eve wedding of her father (Mark Humphrey) and step mom to be Helen (Rebecca Staab).

While at the Cape she learns she must resubmit a photo layout by December 23rd for the Christmas edition insert in the Messenger and if it’s selected, she will get the 9 to 5 job she craves.

She enlists the help of an old childhood friend Mike (Josh Kelly) to act as tour guide to help her find the locations which will help her to eventually meet the deadline for the big Christmas spread that could very well ignite her career.

Of course, along the way she falls in love and realizes that Christmas is wherever your family is.

ARE YOU WEARING PLAITS?

Are you wearing plaits?

Seriously though are you

You’re going to wear plaits

To the annual Christmas do

 

And dressed as a milk maid

Perhaps Scandinavian born

You look like you’re dressed

For 1970s porn 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MRS. WORTHINGTON'S PARTY (2007)

 

Father Jonathan Keene (David Wall) is a cold, embittered Catholic Priest who arrives in a tiny Cape Cod fishing village the week before Christmas.

His reason for being there was simple, to do what he has become uncommonly successful at, shutting down parishes with diminishing congregations.

However, things don’t go to plan when he becomes entangled in the lives of various eccentric village characters, including their beautiful librarian (Kerry Wall), and the naïve and childlike priest (Sean Patrick Brennan) he is displacing.

And things take an unexpected turn after the magical experience at the legendary Christmas Party Mrs. Worthington (Jean Bates) throws every year, where everyone is welcome, and anything is possible.

Ultimately Father Keene learns the power of forgiveness and redemption.

A SIMPLE GIFT

 

I’m hoping that this Christmas

I will get what I desire

I’m not that easy to please

I don’t ridiculously aspire

 

I don’t want the moon and stars

Or diamonds or pearls

Some perfume or cosmetics will do

I’m not one of those greedy girls

 

I just want something for me

Just a small thing, for me this year

But as always it will be something

For the house from IKEA

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS AT GRAND VALLEY (2018)

 

After failing to get the Gallery show she had worked so hard for, artist Kelly (Danica McKellar) feels burned out from life in Chicago, so she returns home to the picturesque Grand Valley just in time for Christmas.

She hopes that a hometown Christmas will reinvigorate her love of art and guide her down her next path and with that in mind she volunteers to run the kids club at the Grand Valley Hotel.

Which is where she meets Leo (Brennan Elliott), a widowed businessman and father of two, who struggles with the work/life balance, but when he is assigned to review a hotel in Grand Valley to ascertain its value, he sees it as the perfect opportunity for a Christmas family vacation.

Along the way Kelly and Leo's worlds collide, and she re-experiences her favourite Grand Valley traditions with Leo and his children, which reignites her passion for art while opening up her heart.

CHRISTMAS STAR

 

I wouldn’t need to look too far

To find the perfect Christmas star

I’d open my eyes and there you are

I don’t have to wish upon a star

To find the perfect Christmas star

Because you're the very best by far

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A HOLIDAY ROMANCE (1997)

 

Kathleen Russell (Roma Downey) is a hard-working single mother, who is saving to buy a house for herself and her daughter, Zoey (Sarah Rosen Fruitman).

Whereas Sam Field (Eric McCormack) is a businessman who has to pretend he has a family in order to close a deal with the mysterious Javier Del Campo (Hector Elizondo).

Sam owns the company that Kathleen works for, and as her boss, manages to convince her to help him out by posing as his wife, for a price, which she thought would help her to buy the house.

But Del Campo is more than he seems, and it just might be Zoey who's making the real deal to get a new home for herself, her mother, and Sam.