THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MY ANGEL (2011)

 

Fifteen year old Eddie's mother (Janet Dibley) falls very ill after a serious car accident so Eddie (Joseph Phillips) and his brother Stewart (Angus Harrison) end up having to take care of themselves and one night when they have run out of food and the electricity has gone off, Eddie dreams that his mother asks him to find an angel's halo so that she can be saved.

Neither Brenda Blethyn as the Headmistress, Celia Imrie as the Librarian, Timothy Spall as Mr. Lambert or Mel Smith as Eddies Uncle Richard help him in his endeavour so will Eddie be able to save his mother in time for Christmas?

 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER –HOLLYGROVE

 

Emotionally frigid, workaholic attorney Kate Jordan (Jen Lilley) reluctantly accepts an end-of-the-year assignment to get a reputedly haunted inn and has three weeks to get it appraised and sold by year's end.

When she gets there the uncooperative manager claims a spirit who lives there will not approve, but with Kate's possible promotion resting on accomplishing this task, she checks in and as a result she meets Daniel (Thomas Beaudoin) the resident ghost who she thinks looks suspiciously solid for a ghost.

Then he explains that for the past ninety-five years, he inexplicably returns to life each December during the twelve days of Christmas.

Kate has only one logical recourse left open to her for their mutual benefit, and that is to break the curse that binds him to the Inn, but she starts falling for the man who is almost a century her senior which was very much not in her plans, but then it is Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOLIDAY SPIN

 

Blake (Garrett Clayton) and his mother Roxy (Erika Eleniak) live in Charlotte, North Carolina where she owns a dance studio but he is looking forward to a career as a fighter.

However all that tragically ends on Thanksgiving Eve when there is a terrible car accident in which Roxy is killed and Blake is seriously injured.

When he is recovering, he finds Ruben (Ralph Macchio) at his bedside announcing he is his father and that he is taking him back to Miami, Blake objects but as he is only 17 he has no choice but to go with the man who abandoned him as a baby.

Ruben is a former ballroom dancer and owns a dance studio where he lives with his wife, Emily (Karen Olivo), and it’s there where Blake meets and falls in love with one of Reuben’s dancers, Pia (Allie Bertram).

The story revolves around the “Holiday Spin” which is a dance competition held every Christmas Eve with the couples dancing to Christmas carols and the grand prize of $50,000 goes to the dance studio that the dancers represent.

So there is a lot at stake for Blake and Pia as they go up against Rob (Benji Schwimmer) and Tezza (Julia Harnett).

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MERRY KISSMAS

 

Unwinding her relationship from a controlling stage director/choreographer, Kayla (Karissa Lee Staples) happens to take an elevator ride with a lonely caterer called Dustin (Brant Daugherty).

Serendipitously the elevator stalls, and as often happens in a Christmas movie a spontaneous magical kiss follows, and that should have been that.

Unfortunately the choreographer Carlton (David O'Donnell) goes on a charm offensive to get Kayla back and Dustin withdraws from the scene. But Kayla is left confused as she now doesn’t know which man to love. Roxanne Hart and Doris Roberts also feature in this entertaining Christmas offering.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – 12 GIFTS OF CHRISTMAS

 

Anna Parisi (Katrina Law) is an aspiring artist who is looking for that big break but after getting the brush off from a snooty art museum manager and being unable to make ends meet she turns to her other talent which is personal shopping and plans to develop that into a side business over the upcoming holidays.

Marc Rehnquist (Aaron O'Connell) is an uptight workaholic advertising executive who is always on his mobile phone, he briefly met Anna at a bakery and later employs her to pick out Christmas gifts for his family and friends.

At first things are difficult as Anna gets a gift for a friend of his that was not on his list and he essentially sacks her, but he rethinks his decision when it turns out that his friend actually liked the gift and thought it was the best he had ever got him.

So he then gives her a free reign to get the kind of presents his friends like, rather than what he can afford.

Marc learns that Christmas giving has less to do with the amount of money spent and more to do with the importance of the gift, while Anna discovers she might find success as an artist in a way she never expected.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS CHILD

 Jack Davenport (William R. Moses) is a reporter who has been having a difficult time getting much joy out of his life.

Relations with his wife Meg (Megan Follows) and his job both fail to revive his spirits so while he is working on a story in Dallas, he comes across a photograph that gets his attention.

The photograph leads him to the Texas town of Clearwater, where he learns about the town's ornate nativity scene and confronts his past in the hope that it can lead him to a happier future.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – BEVERLY HILLS PUPPY

 

This is a good Christmas movie aimed at a family audience, with a wonderful message in which, with help from a guardian angel, a spoiled rich and very materialistic teenage girl learns that true value is found in assisting others and not in material possessions.

It has a great cast to tell the tale, Donna Spangler (Angelina Foxworth), Dean Cain (Archangel Gabriel), John Savage (Mr. Winters), Ravin Spangler (Ravin Foxworth), Brittan Taylor (Hannah), Simona Fusco (Yvonne), Cindy Marinangel (nurse), Brandon Russell (Jerry), Vincent De Paul (James Foxworth), Sue Wong appears as herself and of course the ridiculously adorable Jack Pomeranian steals the show as Bunny the dog.