THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MIRACLE AT CHRISTMAS: EBBIE'S STORY

 

Susan Lucci stars as ruthless business-woman and shopping store owner Elizabeth “Ebbie” Scrooge in this updated retelling of Dickens' “A Christmas Carol”.

The classic tale in which she is taught the true meaning of Christmas by three Spirits who visit her, has been brought into contemporary times.

It is refreshing in this version to have the main character of Ebbie played by a woman as indeed is her beleaguered employee Roberta 'Robbie' Cratchet played by the ever reliable Wendy Crewson.

The spirits are given some modern handling and the way Jake Marley communicates with God by cell-phone is very amusing and all in all it’s a very enjoyable adaptation.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOLIDATE (2018)

 

Molly Hoffman (Jen Lilley) creates “Mingle All the Way”, a new networking app designed to pair busy professionals together for upcoming events, without the need for romantic entanglements.

However her family are unsupportive in her career choice and a much needed investor wants the app to be tested by Molly so she is effectively forced to join but takes the positive that it would be a way to prove to her family that she and it are a success.

On joining the app, she is paired with another busy professional, Jeff Scanlon (Brant Daugherty) but when they meet, they are both horrified to find they've already had not one, but two disastrous previous encounters.

Nevertheless, despite their unpleasant previous meetings they agree to stay matched for all their respective upcoming holiday engagements.

As the pair gets closer, there is a possibility that their business arrangement might turn into something more, but he is unaware that she designed the app, so if love is in the air how will he react when he finds out the truth?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE LONG KISS GOODNIGHT

 

I would have to admit that this is not a conventional Christmas tale but it is a rather good one nonetheless.

Samantha Caine (Geena Davis) is mother to 8 year old daughter Caitlin (Yvonne Zima) living in Honesdale, PA.

Samantha has a job teaching school and a boyfriend and is singularly unremarkable but for the fact that she had no memory of her life before she awoke from a coma eight years earlier.

But when she received a bump on her head in a car accident she begins to remember small parts of her previous life.

Along with a bargain basement private investigator, Mitch (Samuel L. Jackson) she digs deeper.

As a result she remembers more and more of her previous life until finally she finds out she is really Charly Baltimore a deadly assassin.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – WHEN ANGELS SING (2013)

 

As a child, Michael Walker (Harry Connick Jr.) wished every day could be Christmas, but one year a tragic accident crushed his holiday spirit.

Thirty years later, Michael still can't muster any Christmas joy, despite encouragement from his playful wife Susan (Connie Britton) and well-intentioned parents. But when his young son David (Chandler Canterbury) comes face to face with a tragedy himself, Michael needs to come to terms with his past.

This begins when he meets a mysterious man named Nick (Willie Nelson) who gives Michael a gift which instils in him the courage to find the joy that he lost.

Fionnula Flanagan, Lyle Lovett and Kris Kristofferson also star in this touching Christmas Movie.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MR MIRACLE

 

On his first time in human form a trainee Guardian Angel Harry Mills (Rob Morrow) has to pose as an English teacher to help a young woman, Addie Folsom (Britt Irvin) to find the confidence to change her life before Christmas.

If he fails Harry can say goodbye forever to his own Earthly existence.

Along the way he’s got a lot to learn about life as a human with the help of his seasoned heavenly mentor, Celeste (Michelle Harrison).

After her father’s sudden passing, Addie is living with her mom Sharon (Sarah-Jane Redmond), while attempting to finish her degree.

The important story revolves around her childhood nemesis and neighbour, Erich (Andrew Francis).

As Harry bumbles his way along as her teacher he constantly comes up against the principle Mr. Conceito (Malcolm Stewart) with amusing results.

And while helping Addie to see the wonderful things she can’t see in herself while learning a few life lessons of his own along the way.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER –CHRISTMAS MIRACLE (2017)

 

Lawyer Maggie (Jill Wagner), is an overprotective single mom and has to maintain the balance between her career and her son, Jordan (Lauren Guci), but he is falling behind at school.

The head teacher suggests a tutor named Casey (Luke Macfarlane) to help him catch up, Maggie is reluctant but is persuaded by her much more relaxed mother (Laura Soltis) to at least meet with him.

Eventually she agrees and when Jordan meets Casey there is an instant bond and as the days pass Casey becomes like a father figure, and to Maggie he becomes something entirely different.

So will the three of them find the happiness and sense of family they are looking for in this delightful Christmas Story?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – JINGLE ALL THE WAY

 

Howard Langston (Arnold Schwarzenegger) is a salesman for a mattress company and is very busy with his job and constantly lets down his son, so with Christmas coming he is determined to get him the must have toy for Christmas which is an action figure of his son's television hero, Turbo Man.

Unfortunately for Howard, he leaves it until Christmas Eve and every store is sold out of Turbo Man figures so Howard has to schlepp all over town and compete with every other tardy father including a mail man named Myron Larabee (Sinbad) to find a Turbo Man action figure.

A great slapstick free for all ensues and climaxes at the Wintertainment parade which will feature Turbo Man himself.