Wednesday, 2 February 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER - IF YOU BELIEVE

 

Susan Stone (Ally Walker) is a proper Bah! Humbug! Character.

She is a young but jaded book editor who has lost the passion and drive that defined her and the girl of her childhood has been replaced by one who is consumed with self-doubt in her abilities.

Susan has all but given up on happiness and is on the verge of losing her job and is fast becoming persona non grata with her only remaining family.

Then out of nowhere, a cheerful, carefree, full of life seven-year-old girl named Suzie (Hayden Panettiere), surprises Susan at her apartment.

As the story unfolds it turns out that little Suzie is the embodiment of Susan's inner child.

She is the Susan she once was all those years ago and she was there to help the lost adult Susan rediscover and recapture the love of life that she had once had but somewhere along the line had lost.

But it is a new author Thom Weller (Tom Amandes) who truly redeems the modern-day Ebenezer Scrooge.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – BEYOND TOMORROW (1940)

 

In this charming Christmas movie, George Melton (Harry Carey), Allan Chadwick (C. Aubrey Smith) and Michael O'Brien (Charles Winninger), are the heads of a successful engineering firm.

All three are rich beyond measure but are ultimately lonely, so they invite three strangers to dinner on Christmas Eve.

However only two show up, James Houston (Richard Carlson) and Jean Lawrence (Jean Parker), who fall in love and become friends with their three benefactors.

But tragedy strikes when the three men are killed in a plane crash after which they return to their old home as ghosts.

In the months following the accident, although left financially secure, true love between James and Jean encounters some very rough spots and ultimately, it’s left to the ghostly O'Brien to help the young couple.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER - A CHRISTMAS ROMANCE

 

Julia Stonecypher (Olivia Newton-John) is a widowed mother with financial woes who lives on her husband’s farm with her children Emily Rose (Stephanie Sawyer) and Deenie (Chloe Lattanzi).

Just before Christmas in the teeth of a snowstorm, Brian Harding (Gregory Harrison) arrives at the farm to serve a foreclosure notice.

Despite her anger towards the man Julia must come to his aid when he crashes his car in the snow and hits his head. 

An uncomfortable atmosphere ensues but as it’s a Christmas story there is a happy ending just around the corner.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS (2018)

As Christmas approaches, Elizabeth Bennett (Jessica Lowndes), a New York event planner, is sent to a small quaint town to organize their Christmas festival, only to find that the location is no longer usable.

So, she thinks that the grounds of nearby Pemberley Manor could be a possible substitute venue, but when she arrives, she finds William Darcy (Michael Rady), a high-profile billionaire in the process of selling the charming estate, totally devoid of holiday spirit.

Elizabeth is too determined to make her event a success to take no for an answer, so she persuades the reluctant grinch Darcy to let her hold the festival on the historical estate after all.

As a result, they end up working together to arrange the festivities, and the unlikely pair begin to fall for each other.

But when complications arise and the festival is unexpectedly cancelled, they part ways and Darcy pushes forward with his plans to sell the estate, and a wistful Elizabeth hopes for a Christmas miracle to revive the festival, save the estate and rekindle her Christmas romance. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER - A PERFECT CHRISTMAS

 

Holly Maddux (Claire Coffee) is an advertising executive in New York and dreams of the perfect life, the perfect job, and of course, the perfect man to perfectly sweep her off her feet.

Then one day she comes around after a fall in the street to find the “perfect man” standing over her. And the perfect hunky gentleman helped her up and she hit it off with her new beau immediately.

However, Holly soon begins to discover that the pressure to be perfect all the time is not at all as great as she expected.

And perfect Bo (Ryan McPartlin) is nothing more than a mannequin who has come to life, and it takes time for her to realise that perfection is much closer to hand than she thought in the shape of photographer Milo Ames (Jeff Ward) and the real love that's been waiting for her all along.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A BLUE RIDGE MOUNTAIN CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

Hotel manager Willow Petersen (Rachael Leigh Cook) returns to her stunning Virginia hometown to help her sister Juni (Christie Burke) plan a Christmas wedding at the Inn her family once owned.

However, to achieve her goal she must work with the resistant current owner and single dad David Lyndon (Benjamin Ayres), who just wants to let go of the past and sell the Inn following the death of his wife.

She does have a very valuable ally in the form of his young daughter Natalie (Lina Renna) who loves the Inn.

This is a delightful film in a delightful setting with stunning cinematography.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SANTA WHO?

 

Santa Claus (Leslie Nielsen) takes a recreational flight on the sleight one night and ends up accidentally falling out.

As a result of the fall he is left suffering with amnesia, but as he was dressed in his red suit as Santa Claire Dreyer (Robyn Lively) got him a job in a department store grotto while hard bitten newsman Peter Albright (Steven Eckholdt) tries to find out who he is.

But it takes the innocence of a small child, Claire’s son Zack (Max Morrow) to save Santa and Christmas.

Leslie Nielsen is wonderful as the confused Santa in a very entertaining Christmas tale.