THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS CAROL (2016)

 

Single parent Carol Montgomery (Anne Heche) lives with her son Bryan (Sean Michael Kyer) and is the undisputed Queen of Christmas and she organised every aspect of the holiday, but all that changed when another single parent Terry Evans (Dylan Neal) and his daughter Amelia (Farryn Van Humbeck) move to the town and he is a breath of fresh air and offers an alternative view of the plans and Carol and Terry battle for control of the Christmas holiday at the middle school that their children attend and learn a lesson about the true meaning of Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE TREE THAT SAVED CHRISTMAS (2014)

 

Molly Logan (Lacey Chabert) and Lucas Bishop (Corey Sevier) were childhood friends and high school sweethearts in Danbury Falls, Vermont, where Molly's family founded the town two hundred years earlier, and with her immediately family still living on the same property, where her parents, Gordon and Betty Logan (Eric Keenleyside and Lini Evans), have continued the family business of operating a Christmas tree farm.

Since they were children, Molly knew she wanted to become a writer, a dream which her parents supported while Lucas knew he wanted to become a photographer, something his banker father, Elliot Bishop (James Kidnie) vehemently opposed him pursuing as a career, he believed only in careers like his own, and making money by any and all means.

When he would not follow her to New York, where they would have pursued their professional dreams together, Molly and Lucas broke up and had not seen each other since.

After getting an MBA, Lucas returned to Danbury Falls to work at the bank for his father.

Molly works at a publishing house, where she is treated more as a 24/7 PA by her recently widowed boss, Walter Dunlap (Jim Thorburn) at the expense of her writing career.

When Molly hears from her brother Ryan (Matthew Kevin Anderson) that the bank is foreclosing on a mortgage for the tree farm property they both head back to Danbury Falls to help their parents save the farm from being turned into a golf resort.

On her return, Molly runs into Lucas, who is heading the search for investors for the development proposal and then Christmas begins to work its magic.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS STALLION

 

Sixteen year old Gwen Davies (Siân MacLean) adores the horses she and her grandfather have raised on the beautiful Welsh Mountains. However, when her grandfather dies without naming her as heir the farm passes to her uncle Alan (Daniel J. Travanti) who left Wales many years earlier and made a home in America and now must either sell the farm to a greedy land developer, or allow Gwen to keep the farm, opening the wounds of his tragic past in the process.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS ANGEL (2012)

 Grade school student Olivia Mead (Izabela Vidovic) believes that the Christmas wishes read out in class by her classmates are beginning to come true.

She and her friend Lucas Conroy (Tyler Humphrey) believe it's the long-abandoned house next door to hers which she believes houses an angel that grants the wishes, as long as the wish is made while throwing a rock at it, but then Olivia meets a reclusive old woman living inside, Elsie Waybright (Della Reese), and together they begin reviewing the wishes left at the gate in a “wish box” placed there to stop people from damaging the property any further.

Olivia makes a wish for a new husband for her single mom (Teri Polo), and the landlord of the abandoned house (Kevin Sorbo) comes into their lives, but Olivia would rather her mom had the new substitute teacher (Rob Boltin) but she just had to let the Angel do her work.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN MY HOMETOWN

 

Executive Jacob (Jake) Peterson (Tim Matheson) is sent to a small town to assess which of the workers in the local tractor factory, on which the town relies on as the chief source of employment, should be laid off when the planned downsizing begins.

However he gets side tracked when he falls in love with a local single mom Emma Murphy (Melissa Gilbert) which her daughter Noelle (Michelle Trachtenberg) encourages.

But is there any future in their relationship if he does what he was sent to the town to do?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – WINDOW WONDERLAND

 

Two Manhattan department store employees, Sloan Van Doren (Chyler Leigh) and Jake Dooley (Paul Campbell), both apply for the same job during the busy Christmas season.

Sloan is a driven young woman determined to become the next window dresser at McGuire's department store and to uphold a 95-year-old artistic holiday tradition, she is serious and professional, infact she's the polar opposite of the happy-go-lucky Jake, who also wants the job.

But when Mr. Fitch (Matty Finochio) the head of advertising and promotions fails to give the job to either of them, but offers them a compromise solution instead and proposes a challenge, a competition where each will create a series of seasonal storefront windows, twice a week until Christmas and the creator of whichever window display gets the most attention from passers-by will get the job.

As they go through their paces, with Jake's obvious talent grabbing the public's attention, a silent but mutual attraction develops between the pair, but progress was hampered by the contest and the presence of Kenneth Carlyle (Cameron Mathison), Sloan's blueblood boyfriend, who can't understand the importance Sloan is placing on this job.

However there were supporters of the efforts of the window dressers in the shape of McGuire's veteran window washer Mac (Terence Kelly) and brassy bathroom attendant Rita Dorentella (Naomi Judd) who also have eyes for each other but haven't done anything about it yet.

So love is in the air at McGuire's for Mac and Rita but how will the love triangle be resolved, and will it be before Christmas?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1959)

 

Fredric March stars as miser Ebenezer Scrooge in this live TV retelling of Charles Dickens' “A Christmas Carol”.

The classic tale in which he is taught the true meaning of Christmas by three Spirits who visit him, revealing to him the truth about his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current catalogue of cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways.

Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold, death or redemption.