THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS STAR (1986)

 

Horace McNickle (Edward Asner) is a cynical two-time felon serving prison time for counterfeiting, but his counterfeit money is hidden somewhere in a department store.

On the week before Christmas, he escapes from prison dressed as Santa Claus and due to his uncanny resemblance to St. Nick as a result from his long white beard and heavyset features he very much looks the part.

When Horace hides out from the police in a nearby suburban neighbourhood he is befriended and helped by two local children who think he is the real Santa Claus and he takes advantage of their naivety to help him get his booty but he develops feelings for his two con victims and that make him slowly comprehend the true nature of Christmas.

Rene Auberjonois and Fred Gwynne also star in this gem of a Disney production.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ANGEL IN THE FAMILY

 

Sarah (Tracey Needham) and her estranged sister Beth (Natasha Gregson Wagner) are reunited after their father Buddy (Ronny Cox) suffers a mild stroke.

Buddy, who's never accepted the loss of his wife Lorraine (Meredith Baxter), wants only one thing and that is to return home for Christmas.

With sweet memories of a life gone by, Sarah makes an impossible wish that her mother could be there too and by morning it is as if a winter prayer had been answered and bearing a message of hope, healing, and everlasting love, a miracle has arrived in the form of their mother Lorraine.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER –KEY TO MY HEART

 

Sean Tucker (Mark Lutz), who runs an advertising agency in New York City, and Owen Harrison (J.T. Hodges), a small-town handyman and musician, swap homes for the holidays. Mia (Cristina Rosato) works for Sean and is asked to help Owen get settled into his new apartment while Ryan Harrison (Tricia Helfer) meets Sean after Owen asks her to fix a broken heater, and then finds herself helping Sean find the charm of living in a small town.

Holiday romance ensues in the charming Christmas tale with misunderstandings soul-searching and secrets along the way. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS REUNION (1994)

 

A Christmas Reunion is a Christmas treasure of a film and is the tale of two parallel lives one of a grandfather and the other his grandson and what their generations had to go through which in the end may not be that different.

The middle generation has passed away and there's no connection, between paternal grandfather and grandson.
Both stories contain marriages which were contrary to the wishes of the families involved.

In the first the parents died in a car accident and in the other the father died in the war, and the mother when the child was born.
Edward Woodward stars as the Grandfather and James Coburn as Santa and an ensemble cast makes up the rest and the result is extraordinary.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS COMES HOME TO CANAAN

 

In the Texas town of Canaan, Daniel Burton (Billy Ray Cyrus) finds that his son Bobber (Liam James) needs extensive orthopaedic surgery and months of intensive physical therapy to recover as a result of being run down by a car.

Fortunately help is at hand in the form of Rodney Freeman (Matt Ward), the young black man who Daniel took into his home and raised as his own son, who has become a famous writer and he immediately offers to fly Daniel and Bobber to San Francisco and to pay for the surgery.

Once in San Francisco, Daniel meets and falls for Briony Adair (Gina Holden), a physical rehabilitation specialist who will be working toward Bobber's recovery but when the therapy progresses slowly, Bobber invites Briony to come home to Canaan to spend Christmas with the Burtons and continue his treatment.

Briony accepts the offer and is welcomed by the family all except Sarah (Emily Tennant), Daniel's daughter who distances herself because she doesn’t want to dishonour her late mother's memory.

But Daniel and Briony try to rise above it but a disastrous Christmas ensues and drives them apart.

So in the soul searching that follows, will Daniel find the strength to open his heart again and invite love back into his life or will he settle for the status quo.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SANTA’S SECRET

 

A single mom, Nicky Talbot (Alicia Witt) is going from door to door to find a job and boost her finances but without success.

Then a friend tells her that a big store is hiring so she goes along and gets a holiday job at Cartwright’s department store but not as floor staff, she gets the job as Santa Claus in the grotto.

This was achieved when an angel, Harry Osbourne (Wallace Shawn) entered her life and brought about some positive changes, including the spark of a new romance.

She of course was unaware that he was an angel and she thought he was from corporate.

Her head elf in the grotto was Peg (Linda Kash) and she thought Nicky was wonderful in fact everyone loved Santa Nick, except the evil Fiona Aldrich (Gabrielle Miller) who was her boss.

Nicky’s daughter Becky (T.J. McGibbon) is cute without being precocious and the love interest is supplied very ably by department head Bill (Gabriel Hogan) and her landlady Mrs. Rositani is played by the excellent Jayne Eastwood.

This is a great film, believable yet magical and any Christmas film with an Angel in it gets my vote.

 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS HERO

Firefighter Jenny Jenkins (Anna Hutchison) falls in love with local star Tom Norris (Marcus Rosner) but his ex-wife and celebrity figure skating champion Mary Hamilton (Anita Brown) is asking him to choose between reconciling or going through an ugly custody battle, but she has an ulterior motive.

But Jenny’s natural warmth and kindness to the community starts to convince everybody that her love for Tom is real however Mary's fierceness is more powerful than anything Jenny has ever faced before so who will Tom choose in the end?