THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN THE RED

 

Mike and Caroline Anderson (George Stults and Christy Carlson Romano) have always gone all out with parties and gifts for Christmas with their 10-year-old twins Brendan and Julia (Luke and Savannah Judy) however when Michael loses his job just before the holidays, it looks like Christmas will have to be cancelled.

Being used to outdoing their friends and neighbours with ever more elaborate celebrations they are brought down to earth with a bump as they have to face up to their new reality.

But help is at hand when they receive a visit from wacky Aunt Katie (Julie Brown) who helps them realize they can still pull off Christmas, without, and rediscover the most important things in their lives.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – 'TIS THE SEASON FOR LOVE

 

Beth Baker (Sarah Lancaster) is an out-of-work actress trying to make it in New York on the stage in New York City, but after 10 years of not succeeding and without her friends around at Christmas she decides to take a break from her struggling actress profession to spend Christmas in her small and quaint hometown she escaped from 10 years earlier.

And on returning home she finds a place far different than the hamlet she left and the magic of the Christmas season soon starts to massage her bruised ego as she finds performing possibilities and even romance.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS MAGIC

 

Carrie Blackford (Lindy Booth) lives for her career as a successful event planner in New York City, but her life changes in an instant after a nasty car accident in a snowstorm in which Carrie suffers severe head trauma.

When she regains consciousness she’s sitting in Central Park with an old man, Henry (Derek McGrath) and Henry is Carrie's spirit guide and is there to help her “crossover” safely to Heaven.

But before Carrie can move on, she must fulfil one final task on Earth and Henry tells Carrie that she must help guide a widowed, young restaurant owner, Scott Walker, (Paul McGillion) who has recently considered suicide because his beloved restaurant and catering business is on the brink of collapse.

Time however isn't on her side in fact she only has until midnight on Christmas Eve to turn the Walkers fortunes around.

Carrie befriends Scott and his 8-year-old daughter Abby (Kiara Glasco) and immediately displays a knack for promoting the restaurant.

But as friendship grows, romance blooms, and Carrie finds herself regretting her former wasted life.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS TAKEOVER (1998)

 

A ruthless toy tycoon Tyler Madison (Harry Hamlin), is one of L.A.'s hottest toy manufacturing executives and he is on a mission to crush all of his competitors, so he travels to the North Pole to put an end to his biggest rival.

The hard hearted businessman has neither the time nor the inclination to celebrate Christmas and this attitude hurts the feelings of his son (Curtis Blanck) and antagonizes his wife Elyse (Megan Gallagher).

Armed with a fool proof way to take over the entire toy market worldwide the corporate raider heads for the North Pole to grab the ultimate toy factory but when he gets there he discovers that Santa (William Hootkins) is his estranged father who he hasn’t seen for many years.

But Tyler’s arrival at the North Pole coincides with an unprecedented crisis befalling Santa's Kingdom, when gentle-hearted Ambrose (Dotrice), who has spent 30 years as one of Santa's hardest-working Elves, is goaded by the jealous Snipes (Stuart Pankin) into taking over the North Pole.

So he must put aside his hates and hurts and team up with his estranged Father to set things right and restore happiness to the North Pole and once reacquainted with his family Tyler learns to appreciate the holiday season.

Gary Coleman also features in this jewel of a Christmas comedy.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ON STRIKE FOR CHRISTMAS

 

Joy Robertson (Daphne Zuniga) wants to make it “the best Christmas ever” because her two sons Jeremy and Mark (Victor Zinck Jr and Evan Williams) will both be off to college the following year.

But Joy is feeling unappreciated, however, since her husband Stephen (David Sutcliffe) and sons are preoccupied with their own concerns, and providing no assistance with the many Christmas preparations, while still expecting Mom to handle all the arrangements for hubby's last minute office party and parties for her sons' friends, as well as doing all the many chores.

So inspired by a grocery workers' strike in town, Joy decides to follow suit, and goes “on strike for Christmas” and friends and neighbours feeling similarly aggrieved follow suit.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – BACK TO CHRISTMAS

 

The previous Christmas, Ali Pennebaker (Kelly Overton) broke things off with her boyfriend, Cameron (Michael Muhney).

Looking back, she regretted her decision and as a result no longer believed in the magic of Christmas, but when she meets Ginny (Jennifer Elise Cox), a truly magical being, she gets the chance to relive that last Christmas.

Determined to make the relationship with Cameron last this time, so she pulls out all the stops but realizes, you can't always change the past and happiness may appear in the strangest places.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SANTA AND PETE

 

It's the first Christmas without Grandma and a difficult time for the family, until Grandpa (James Earl Jones) decides to share a story with his ten-year-old grandson Terence (Sedrathe Gillespie) and the story he chooses to tell is the one about Santa and Pete, a tale that has been handed down for generations, from the time Santa (Hume Cronyn) first meets Pete (Flex Alexander) and their adventures that followed right up to the time Santa first arrived in America and the story telling is both entertaining for Terence and cathartic for Grandpa Nicholas.