THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – 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 WINTER 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 – ANGEL AT CHRISTMAS (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 – A HOLIDAY FOR LOVE (1996)

 

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 – A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1938)

 

Reginald Owen stars as miser Ebenezer Scrooge in this quality 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.

The Spirits are played by Ann Rutherford (Past), Lionel Braham (Present) and D'Arcy Corrigan (Future)

The other key characters and portrayed by Leo G. Carroll (Marley), Lynne Carver (Bess), Gene Lockhart and Kathleen Lockhart (The Cratchit’s), Terry Kilburn (Tiny Tim), Forrester Harvey (Fezziwig), Barry MacKay (Fred) and Ira Stevens (Fan).

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THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – JINGLE BELLE

 

 

Glenn Barrow (Dean Cain) is a widower who lost his beloved wife in a car accident about a year ago and he and his three children, Elliot (Jet Jurgensmeyer), Phoebe (Meyrick Murphy) and Janey (Jamie Dudney) are doing okay, give or take some tearful memories.

But with Christmas approaching what the kids wanted most of all was a puppy and they see a the perfect one at an adoption event, where beautiful Kate Rivers (Hayley Duff) suggests that the family give Belle a permanent home but Glenn says no, at first, but he soon weakened.

However Glenn had just started dating gold digger Dani Downey (Kristy Swanson) who turns out to be allergic to dogs.

Glen is unsympathetic as the three kids were so happy with their pet, which was obviously helping to heal their hearts.

But, they all underestimate two faced Dani who isn’t going to allow a dog to come between her and the prize so she kidnaps Belle and dumps her at the pound.

When the kids discover Belle has been nabbed by the beautiful gold digger on Christmas Eve, the kids recruit their neighbourhood friends and set out on an adventurous rescue mission to save her.

And when Kate Rivers steps in to help Glenn when he discovers that the children have gone AWOL as well as the dog they find more than they were looking for.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – OPERATION CHRISTMAS

 

As her new romance blossoms, a single mother Olivia Young Roberts (Tricia Helfer) is dismayed when her boyfriend Scott McGuigan (Marc Blucas), a military sergeant, is deployed right before Christmas.

Determined to not let it ruin the holidays for her and her children they decide to give back to the struggling military families on his base and, as their efforts go viral, they are rewarded in ways they never imagined.