Friday, 15 April 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS LILIES OF THE FIELD

 

Homer Smith (Billy Dee Williams) returns to the chapel which years before, he helped to build, to find that Mother Maria (Maria Schell) and the nuns are still alive and well and have taken in a group of homeless, unwanted or runaway children.

Once again, he is inspired by the nuns' faith and selfless devotion, and this time Mother Maria builds an orphanage and a little school for the children before he moves on. 

But Mother Maria knows he will return in their hour of need.

Thursday, 14 April 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SMALL TOWN PRINCE

 

Prince Duncan (Kirk Barker) is experiencing cold feet about his upcoming arranged royal wedding, so the charming European prince steals away incognito to the America in search of true love.

Pretending to be someone he isn't, the prince-on-the-lam rents a car and hits the road but he loses control in the wintry conditions and crashes, and that’s where he meets Emma (Viva Bianca) a diner waitress whose Christmas needs brightening considerably, and that’s where the Christmas romance begins in earnest.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MERRY IN-LAWS

 

A recently engaged woman, Alex Spencer (Kassia Warshawski) plans a get-together so her parents Steven and Joyce Spencer (Greg Lawson and Barb Mitchell) can meet the family of her fiancé Peter (Lucas Bryant) but it turns out that his parents are Mr. and Mrs. Claus, played by George Wendt and Shelley Long.

It’s a delightful film which is lots of fun and one for the whole family to enjoy.

 


THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS UNDER WRAPS (2014)

 

Doctor Lauren Brunell (Candace Cameron Bure) has her life mapped out, but when she doesn't get the position she wanted, she looks around for something else, believing she was too late to apply until the following year.

But then she found a chief of medicine position in Alaska, so she applied and ended up moving to what proved to be a very remote Alaskan town, but the hospital turned out to be less than she imagined and she was the only doctor.

Her initial disappointment however subsided when she got to known the locals and then she unexpectedly ends up finding love, happiness and discovers that the small town is hiding a big holiday secret.Top of Form

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THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CINDERELLA CHRISTMAS

 

Angie Wells (Emma Rigby) works hard to run her uncle's events business while her cousin Candace Karilla (Sarah Stouffer) takes the credit.

When Angie takes a night off to have fun at the Christmasquerade Ball, the mask and gown allow her to let loose, and she quickly catches the eye of Nicholas Karmichael (Peter Porte), a wealthy local bachelor.

But then Angie has to go before revealing her identity, leaving Nicholas searching for his mystery woman in this enjoyable modern take on the classic Cinderella fairy tale.


Wednesday, 13 April 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – STEALING CHRISTMAS

When his partner in crime Harry Zordich (David Parker) messes up a department store robbery in December fellow Career criminal Jack Clayton (Tony Danza) can only escape the law in a Santa suit.

He ends up in a small rural town, and he finds himself forced to accept a menial job under the alias “Oscar Burton” as Santa in Sarah Gibson's nursery.

Sarah (Lea Thompson) is a tough task master but Jack is invited into her home and proves a good substitute father for Sarah's frustrated fatherless daughter Noelle (Angela Goethals).

The big question is will he content himself with small town life or will he return to his life of crime,  when his ex-con friend Harry turns up to plan a bank robbery

It’s an enjoyable Christmas movie made that way in no small part by the wonderful Betty White as Widow Emily Sutton whose nostalgic Christmas shop plays a crucial part in the story.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS SNOW

 

For 30 years, Kathleen (Catherine Mary Stewart) carried around the haunting memory of her father abandoning her and her mother on Christmas Eve, and for all those years she blamed her mother for his leaving, eventually unable to separate the joys of the Christmas season from the pain of her family past she reached the point where she refused to celebrate Christmas at all

However although she tries to forget her past, she finds it has not forgotten her when Christmas Snow arrives.

When because of a blizzard, Kathleen finds herself snowed in and stuck in her home with two strangers during the days leading up to Christmas.

Sam (Muse Watson), a gentle older man that Kathleen took in for the night, and Lucy (Cameron Ten Napel), the daughter of her soon to be fiancé, and they bring her face to face with the painful hurts of her past and she is forced to choose between letting go of the past with all its pain and bitterness and grabbing hold of a life-changing forgiveness.