THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A VERY COOL CHRISTMAS (2004)

 

Sixteen-year-old Lindsay Deerborne (Brooke Nevin) isn’t looking forward to Christmas, in fact she wants absolutely nothing to do with the whole deal, especially the hanging out with her family, as she thinks she’s just way too cool for Christmas.

What she really wants to do is go skiing with her school friends and the guy she’s been playing hard to get with all year.

So, Lindsay gets up the nerve to notify her physically expressive parents (Barclay Hope and Ingrid Torrance) that her whole class is going skiing on Christmas Day and that she is definitely going with them.

However, the Deerborne’s are not impressed and ask Lindsay to try to be a little less selfish and consider the feelings of others. as Lindsay's six-year-old sister Alexa (Jodelle Ferland) is devastated by the thought of Christmas without her sister.

When her request is turned down, she heads to her second home, the Mall, where she meets the archetypal Mall Santa Claus (George Hamilton), who she decides is in need of an extreme makeover.

But Christmas magic being what it is while she is transforming him, he is changing her and transforming her life forever.

Donna Mills also stars as Mrs. Claus and Adrienne Carter plays Lindsay’s best friend Paige in this adorable family, feel good Christmas movie.

IN THE QUIET MOMENTS

 

In the quiet moments

I can’t remember my father’s face

I try and try but it escapes me

It seems to shift in my mind’s eye

Snippets of familiarity

Many facets blurring into one

Almost pixelated image

Until now I’ve never understood why

Its because in my memory

He had more than one face

There was the proud father face

The joyful Christmas morning face

The grumpy morning after face

The scolding face

The smiling face

The sad face

And for each of these faces

As we both grew older

There were age groups

He had to many faces to remember just one

So now when I want to see his face

I think of a situation and there he is

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A GINGERBREAD ROMANCE (2018)

 

Globetrotting architect Taylor Scott (Tia Mowry-Hardrict) has her eye on Paris as her next assignment, but with Christmas just weeks away, the firm she works for enters her in a contest in which teams will design and build life-sized gingerbread houses, but with the promise that after the contest she is likely be getting the position she has dreamed of.

Taylor ends up being teamed with a local baker and single Dad, Adam Dale (Duane Henry), he is reluctant at first but winning would give the bakery and his designs much-needed exposure which might in turn lead him to his dream of opening his own bakery.

So both are motivated by different dreams, but spending time with Adam and his daughter Brooke  (Melody Nosipho Niemann), either in their cosy home, decorating for the holidays or exploring the town at Christmas, fosters a feeling of longing for a place to call home.

THE CHURCH BELLS RING OUT

 

The church bells ring out

The Christmas chimes

The congregation sings out

The Christmas rhymes

So lift up your hearts

And join the joyous throng

And sing heartily to the lord

A joyous Christmas song

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS ARRANGEMENT (2018)

 

Poppy Benson (Nicky Whelan) is a struggling flower shop owner who at the suggestion of her friend and employee Natalie (Julie McNiven), enters a local holiday floral show which has a cash prize of $5000 which would be more than enough to keep her store afloat.

There are obviously obstacles in her path, firstly her van, which she calls Edna, constantly breaks down, but the largest of which is Blair Covington (Daphne Zuniga) who has won the contest for the previous 12 years.

However, the added complication to her winning is that she has started to fall for handsome Garrett Hurley (Miles Fisher) who turns out to be her direct competitor in the flower show as he works for Team Covington.

BY CAR, BY PLANE, BY TRAIN

 

They make the journey each year

By car, by plane, by train,

Travelling across the miles

To spend Christmas at home again

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A VERY MERRY DAUGHTER OF THE BRIDE (2008)

 

Roxanne (JoAnna Garcia Swisher) and her widowed mother Rose (Helen Shaver) have their own Wedding Planning business which is doing so well they can afford to send Rose to Paris on a buying trip.

While her mother is away Roxanne has a surprise reunion with old flame Dylan (Lucas Bryant) which leaves her rather cold, but on Rose’s return she finds that she has a fiancé in tow Jack (Kenneth Welsh) who she met in Paris.

And Roxanne immediately tries to persuade her mother not to marry a man she's only known for a brief period of time, until an unexpected development, forces her to re-examine her feelings.

Chantal Perron also stars as multiple bride Tish, and Luke Perry as Jacks money grabbing son Charlie, in this enjoyable Christmas offering.