Mark Webber and Marla
Sokoloff star in this modern take on the classic tale the Gift of the Magi.
Newlyweds Jim and
Della Young move into to their new apartment, that they can barely afford and
despite having to make do with second hand furnishings they are happy.
However, after Della’s
car is stolen, they have to use up all their saving to buy another one.
As a result, they
agree not to buy Christmas presents that year.
Secretly however they
both decide to do so anyway.
Gretchen Daniels
(Jamie-Lynn Sigler) moves back to her hometown with her son Ethan (Dylan Kingwell)
but without her serviceman husband and finds her life in disarray as Christmas
approaches.
But she discovers new
purpose when she helps to deliver a message to her neighbour, Melissa McCreary
(Leah Gibson).
Thanks to her son, a
friendship begins which ends with her being an ally in the quest to find the neighbour’s
sibling she never knew she had.
The women become
bonded not only by the search, but by the understanding that being there for
each other means they're no longer alone and this friendship becomes the greatest
Christmas gift of their lives.
Martha Evans (Kristy
Swanson) is abandoned by her waste of space husband.
Who before taking his
leave emptied the bank account and left her homeless and destitute. Martha leaves
town with her stepson and two daughters with no destination in mind in the
vague hope of finding work and someone to live.
They end up in a small
rural town where she rents a room in the motel and manages to find work in a
diner.
But that isn’t the end
of her trouble theough the warm hearted folk of the town come to her aid.
A nice seasonal tale.
NYPD cop John McClane
(Bruce Willis) goes on a Christmas vacation to visit his wife Holly (Bonnie
Bedelia) in Los Angeles where she works for the Nakatomi Corporation.
He is picked up from
the airport by limo driver Argyle (De'voreaux White) who drops him at the
Nakatomi Tower where the office Christmas party was taking place.
While they are there
amidst a tense reunion, a group of bank robbers, led by Hans Gruber (Alan Rickman)
takes control of the building and holds everyone hostage, with the exception of
John, who escapes up the fire escape while the bad guys plan to perform a
lucrative heist.
Unable to escape and
with no immediate police response, John is forced to take matters into his own
hands.
Jason Gedrick, Erica
Cerra, Richard Harmon, Amitai Marmorstein and Emmalyn Estrada star in this
festive tale that centers around the towns Wishing Tree.
The story revolves
around the local private school, its teachers, its pupils and their lives.
This movie delivers
just what you want in a Christmas tale.
Family friends Sam
Reed (Dustin Milligan) and Kat Patton (Danica McKellar) spend every Christmas
Eve at the Children's Table from the age of three.
Over the years they
grew up together, sharing the highs and lows of young adulthood.
But at the age of thirty,
Sam realizes that Kat is the one...but he's afraid that the past will get in the
way.
A real gem of a
Christmas movie and Danica McKellar is an absolute delight.
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.
