THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – 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.

 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – DECK THE HALLS (2006)

 

Optometrist Steve Finch (Matthew Broderick) loves all the Christmas family traditions he has developed over the years in the town of Cloverdale, Massachusetts.

In fact, he is a bit obsessive about it and has a schedule of activities for his wife Kelly (Kristin Davis) and children Madison (Alia Shawkat) and Carter (Dylan Blue) starting on December 1^st.

Steve is proud to be the go-to guy for anything Christmas related in the town at Christmas.

Then the Halls move into the house across the street and they are cut from very different cloth.

Buddy Hall (Danny DeVito) is a salesman who can sell anything and soon becomes the new go to guy in town for all things Christmas.

His wife Tia (Kristin Chenoweth) and twin daughters Ashley and Emily (Kelly and Sabrina Aldridge) quickly become friends with their counterparts in the Finch household but Steve and Buddy are soon butting heads.

Which only gets worse when Buddy becomes obsessed with decorating his house with so many lights that it will be visible from space.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – DOUBLE FURLOUGH (1944)

 

Mary Marshall (Ginger Rogers), serving a six year term for involuntary manslaughter, is given a Christmas furlough from prison to visit her closest relatives, her Aunt and Uncle (Spring Byington and Tom Tully) and niece Barbara (Shirley Temple) in a small Midwestern town.

On the train she meets Sergeant Zach Morgan (Joseph Cotton), on leave for the holidays from a military hospital, where his physical wounds have healed, but is still fragile mentally and is subject to panic attacks.

The pair are attracted to one another and in the warm atmosphere of the Christmas season friendship blossoms into romance, but Mary is reluctant to tell him of her past and that she must shortly return to prison to serve the remainder of her sentence.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LUCKY CHRISTMAS

 

Holly Caroni (Elizabeth Berkley) is a terminally unlucky single mother and wonders if her luck will ever change but as Christmas approaches she buys a lottery ticket.

And her luck does appear to change when she wins a million dollars but she is soon brought down to earth when she realises her winning lottery ticket is in the glove compartment of her recently stolen car.

Harmless construction workers Joe (Mike Bell) and Mike (Jason Gray-Stanford) are behind the theft of the Holly’s car at the end of a drunken evening.

So Mike comes up with a master plan to befriend Holly so he can return the ticket discreetly but he unexpectedly falls in love with Holly and learns there are more important things in life than quick money in time for the holidays.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SECRET SANTA (1998)

 

Gordon Covington (D.L. Green) doesn't get to spend enough time with his family because of his job as a used-car salesman.

It’s a tough job made worse by the fact he has a mean boss Mr Ambrose (Robert Quarry) who is forcing him to sell stolen cars.

So work pressures keep him from his family obligations, and he even misses the Christmas play his son Teddy (Harrison Myers) is performing in, and cancels the promised trip to the mountains for Christmas.

As a result his wife Carla (Debra Rich) moves out and takes Teddy to her sisters.

Teddy responds by writing a letter to Santa (Bennett Curland) asking for help, which prompts him to assign Lilith, a feisty elf, who appears to Gordon and turns him into Santa Claus and as such he has to learn the true meaning of Christmas as he gets to work putting his boss and his cronies in jail, delivering presents to children all over the world, as well as making up with his family.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER - THE NIGHT BEFORE THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

 

The Night Before The Night Before Christmas is a crazy Christmas fantasy for all the family, brimming with festive spirit.

Santa (R.D. Reid) sets off on his Christmas duties a day early, but ends up crashing into the Fox family's house where he not only loses his memory but also his magic sack of presents.

If ever Santa needed help it was now but the modern and broken Fox family are scarcely up to the task.

The parents Angela (Jennifer Beals) and Wayne (Rick Roberts) are preoccupied with work and the kids Toby (Gage Munroe) and Hannah (Rebecca Williams) aren't particularly festive.

But the clock is ticking so it's up to them to help Santa find his magical bag of toys and or Christmas will be ruined so they are forced to set their own petty problems aside and work together and rediscover how much they enjoy being together and realise that maybe they need to reprioritise their lives.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE NIGHT BEFORE - SECRET PARTY (2015)

Three lifelong friends in New York City, Ethan (Joseph Gordon-Levitt), Isaac (Seth Rogen) and Chris (Anthony Mackie), have for a decade enjoyed their yearly Christmas Eve reunion which has been an annual drug and alcohol fuelled night of debauchery and hilarity.

But now that they're entering a more passive phase of adulthood, the tradition is to come to an end, and to make it as memorable as possible, they set out to find the Nutcracker Ball - the Holy Grail of Christmas parties that they have never managed to find in ten years of trying.

Jillian Bell, Lizzy Caplan, Heléne Yorke, Mindy Kaling and Ilana Glazer make up an excellent supporting cast along with Michael Shannon as Mr Green and James Franco and Miley Cyrus appear as themselves.