Wednesday, 2 February 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER - CHRISTMAS MIRACLE (2012)

 

In the small town of Summit View there is a snowstorm blowing through on Christmas Eve.

It’s so severe the roads are almost deserted apart from a group of vehicles that become stranded on a remote road on the outskirts of town.

The occupants of the stranded cars take refuge in a nearby abandoned church.

James Mason (Aaron Pearl), is an ex-priest, who following the death of his wife and child is running away from his life and his vocation.

Darryl (George Canyon), is a Dyslexic EMT who dreams of becoming a doctor but believes that dream will never materialize.

Drake (David Nykl) and Madeleine (Lori Triolo) are a wealthy married couple whose marriage and its problems all revolve around money.

Nick (Randal Edwards) and Christy (Siobhan Williams) are newlyweds who have only been married for three days and have done nothing but argue

Joe Wells (Dan Payne) is the only local and is separated from his wife Mary (Allison Hossack), largely because of their differing views on how to manage their autistic son, Matt (Valin Shinyei) who runs away from his babysitter and walks through the storm to the church under his own steam.

Together the group must learn how to manage through the various dilemmas they face by working together.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE LEAST OF THESE: A CHRISTMAS STORY (2018)

 

A charming Christmas tale of, in equal measure, hope, forgiveness and faith that centre’s around a single mom, her seven-year-old daughter and a Salvation Army Santa Claus.

Rose (Tayla Lynn), a homeless single mother, and her young daughter Katy (Emma Faith) discover hope in a small-town diner where they are befriended by a feisty waitress, a big-hearted short order cook and a store front Santa called Charlie (G. Michael Nicolosi) who gets served a valuable lesson in forgiveness.

There is more to Rose than just waiting tables, she is an art lover and an accomplished artist and with Santa’s assistance she has a “chance” encounter with a wealthy art collector called Robert (Duane Allen) and his wife Livie (Deborah Allen) which could change her path, if she has faith in herself chooses to follow it.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MISTLETOE OVER MANHATTAN

 

Workaholic Santa Claus (Mairtin O’Carrigan) was exhausted and overwhelmed with the demands of modern children and his wife Rebecca (Tedde Moore) sensed her husband was losing his Christmas spirit.

So believing she can help him recapture his bliss Mrs Clause secretly heads to the one place she knows that the spirit of Christmas must still exist, New York City, which was where she first fell in love with her husband Nick.

However, New York was a very different place to the one she remembered and she was beginning to have doubts herself until in a crowded diner, Rebecca befriends a caring cop Joe (Greg Bryk), who was worried about her.

He reveals to her that he and his wife Lucy (Tricia Helfer) were in the middle of a divorce. Rebecca sensed that Joe was still very much in love with his wife and agreed to work temporarily as the family’s nanny until Christmas.

Rebecca’s hope was that by healing Joe and Lucy’s family, she would show Santa that Christmas miracles are still possible, and his job was as valuable as ever.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS SOLO (2017)

 

“A Christmas Solo” is set in a small town where two single parents, Vet Jennifer (Kelli Williams), who is new in town, and bespoke furniture maker, Nate (Jonathan Scarfe), stumble into the possibility of love for Christmas, only to discover that their daughters Charlotte and Melissa (Pippa Mackie and Kayla Wallace) are embroiled in a rivalry at school as they compete for the Christmas Solo at the Christmas Festival.

When the rivalry gets out of control and Charlotte is on the wrong end of some nasty prank’s things come to a head and the parents and the school get involved, but will that lead everyone to a peaceful and merry Christmas?

An enjoyable tale of teenage angst and mature courtship, beautiful music and perfect friendships.

Alistair Abell stars as Nates brother, Pete, Ricky He and Naika Toussaint as Charlotte’s friends Henry and Audrey, and Natalie von Rotsburg as music teacher Ms. Baxter.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER - A DIFFERENT KIND OF CHRISTMAS

 

It’s the summer and there’s a new Santa in town (Bruce Kirby) and everyone seems to be happy about it with the possible exception of city attorney of Elizabeth Gates (Shelley Long).

But her son Tommy (Nathan Lawrence) is a regular visitor to the street where Santa had turned his home into a kind of year-round Santa Claus castle where children of all ages could come to see the wonderful presents and no child would leave without a gift.

But Elizabeth steps in to make him stop his “commercial' enterprise” in an area zoned for private homes.

Journalist Frank Mallory (Barry Bostwick) is assigned to write a piece about Santa’s philanthropic generosity and the City Attorney’s public action against Santa but he soon discovers she  knows more about Santa than she wants to admit.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – I'LL BE NEXT DOOR FOR CHRISTMAS (2018)

 

“I'll Be Next Door for Christmas” is a very funny Christmas Comedy about the Winters family who are totally crazy for Christmas, except that is for the 16-year-old daughter, Nikki (Juliette Angelo) because, her family's over-the-top Christmas celebrations have made her life a total misery.

At Performing Arts summer camp, she meets Tanner (Javier Bolanos) who is her perfect antidote to the Christmas craziness that is year-round at home, unfortunately at the end of camp they went their separate ways to opposite sides of the country.

It wasn’t the end for them though as they were in constant contact and facetimed regularly but when her long-distance boyfriend decides to visit for the holidays, she's determined to spare him her family's Christmas obsession.

So, the only solution is to create a fake family, so she hires actors to play her parents and stages a fake Christmas dinner in the empty house next door with hilarious results.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THREE WISE WOMEN

 

One Christmas a young girl, Ellie (Lauren Coe) witnesses her father having an affair and discovers her boyfriend with another girl on the same night and in her anger and frustration she declares she will never love anybody ever again.

As a result, her guardian angel Tom (Hugh O'Connor) is forced to abandon her.

16 years later the young vivacious Ellie has aged into Liz (Amy Huberman) a successful, thirty-something doctor, driven and cold, who is about to marry a man of similar disposition and doesn't fully realize she is settling for less than she deserves.

Arc Angel Green (John Rhys Davies) reassigns Tom and gives him a second chance as her guardian angel to guide her back to the person she should have become.

Unable to speak to her directly he travels through time and enlists the help of young Ellie and the sad, lonely older woman Beth (Fionnula Flanagan) to steer her in the right direction and to the right man.

It’s a lovely Christmas Tale and just the kind of thing we expect from Hallmark.