Wednesday, 2 February 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS KISS

 

Wendy Walton (Laura Breckenridge) is the best designer in Boston, unfortunately nobody knows it yet.

So in the hope of kick-starting her career, she left work as the set designer with the local theatre to take a job as an assistant to Priscilla Hall (Elisabeth Röhm), the most prestigious designer in the city, she is however also the biggest bitch in the city and works Wendy around the clock.

And it was on one such occasion at Ms Hall’s apartment building that Wendy found herself trapped in an elevator late one night with an incredibly handsome stranger.

Where she and the mystery man share an impulsive, romantic, life-changing kiss before the doors opened and Wendy ran out, leaving him in her wake.

But after the spontaneous kiss, the struggling designer unwittingly ends up falling in love with the boyfriend of her demanding boss Adam Hughes (Brendan Fehr) a wealthy philanthropist.

She discovers his identity when she answers the door to him at her boss’s apartment, he however does not recognize her, which made things even more awkward for her when Priscila assigns her to decorate his house for a big party at Christmas.

And as Christmas approached the two of them spent more and more time together and Wendy realized she was falling in love with him.

Meanwhile her boss was not only expecting him to propose to her she was actively scheming to ensure it happened, so where would that leave Wendy?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS MOVIE CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

Two cute sisters, Eve (Lana McKissack) and Lacy (Kimberly Daugherty) live together, Eve is a Christmas movie fanatic with dreams of having a movie-perfect Christmas with a movie-perfect boyfriend and cynical Lacy thinks Christmas movies are boring and predictable.

On Christmas Eve, they make wishes to Santa, and fall asleep on the sofa in front of the TV but they magically wake up in Christmas Town and find themselves trapped inside a Christmas movie where they are the stars.

The town is perfect and of course Eve is thrilled, while Lacy is horrified but it soon transpires that it isn’t perfect and things start to go wrong, and Eve's knowledge of all things Christmas movie can’t put them right so Eve and Lacy desperately try to find a way out of the picture-perfect Christmas and back to reality.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A BRIDE FOR CHRISTMAS

 

Jessie Patterston (Arielle Kebbel) is on her third fiancé and is about to tie the knot, but despite her white gown and a chapel full of guests waiting for her grand entrance, she gets cold feet again and bypasses the altar and goes out of the back door.

No one is happy, especially not her fiancé Mike (Sage Brocklebank) or her sister and business partner Vivian (Kimberly Sustad)

It was the right choice for her though, because she realized it wasn't true love she felt for him so she vowed to concentrate on her job and her volunteer work at an animal shelter.

Meanwhile, Aiden (Andrew K. Walker) is having a card game with three of his male, married friends. As the only bachelor present and seemingly a confirmed one, he takes on a bet from the others.

It involved getting a woman to say “yes” to his proposal of marriage before Christmas Day.

Obviously the first lovely lady that Aiden casts a serious eye on is Jessie while he is at an art gallery.

But Jessie has sworn off serious relationships until she finds the one but the charming albeit chronically single Aiden comes along and from then on they have a connection and become closer and closer despite Mike’s efforts to break them up but obviously love will out.

This is a lovely Christmas movie and is a must see for romcom fans.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ALL GOOD THINGS (2019)

 

Two teenage sisters from the big-city, Bailey and Calista (Sierra McCormick and Brett Hargrave) are sent to spend Christmas break with their grandparents' Pop-pop and Gramma (Corbin Bernsen and Morgan Fairchild) on their farm, very much against their wishes as they were supposed to be heading to Hawaii with their friends.

The reason for the change of plans was because their mother had to go to Germany for work, and to make matters worse there was no Wi-Fi, internet or phone reception on the farm.

However, once they get over the initial shock the sisters soon connect to their roots and help save the farm from foreclosure by Pop-pops unscrupulous partner, Randolph Pace (Hal Dion).

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.