THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS CRUSH (2012)

 

Twenty-eight-year-old Georgia (Rachel Boston) is convinced that the man of her dreams is the one “that got away” back in high school Craig (Jon Prescott).

She has tried dating other men over the years, but they just never seem to compare to her high school flame.

When Georgia’s mother, (Marilu Henner) tells her about her high school reunion a week before Christmas, she is thrilled to finally have a chance to win Craig back.

But as she gets to relive high school for a night, she begins to realize it might not be Craig who got away at all, but Ben Oliver (Jonathan Bennett) an old friend with whom she'd fallen out of touch, but was now within reach.

Harry Hamlin also stars as Mr. Taylor, the socially awkward teacher that all the girls had a crush on, and some of them still do.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE BATTLE OF ARDENNES

 

In the bitter winter of 1944 in the depths of the Ardennes Forest, an American Army Captain John Myers (Craig Olejnik) and a Belgian girl named Alina (Ali Liebert) meet and fall in love during a brief 24-hour Christmas truce amid the Battle of the Bulge.

When the fighting resumes and they have to go their separate ways they promise to reunite on the first Christmas Eve after the end of World War II, providing they're both alive.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN EVERGREEN: LETTERS TO SANTA (2018)

Lisa Palmer (Jill Wagner) operates a retail redesign and staging business in Boston with her best friend and business partner Oliver (Andrew Francis) but their work takes them across the country which suited her as she grew up as a military brat and never really put down roots.

But with Christmas approaching she wanted a sense of home, so she decided on a last-minute Christmas trip to where she was born and where she had the fondest childhood memories of Christmas, namely the Northern Vermont town of Evergreen.

Her strongest memories of Christmas were centred on the historic “Daisy's General Store”, and its owner Daisy, unfortunately after her arrival she finds the latter has passed away and the former closed and in bad shape.

The town mayor and Daisy's godson Ezra Green (Chris Cope), is handling the sale of the store on behalf of the estate, which must be done by the end of the year or it goes to the bank, so using her skills Lisa decides to help the people of Evergreen bring the store back to life and make it more saleable.

Lisa charms a local contractor named Kevin Miller (Mark Deklin) into working with her, the pair find themselves facing one surprise after another as they restore the store to its former glory and shape their own future. 

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.