THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOME ALONE 3 (1997)

 

A stolen top-secret microchip is hidden in a Remote-Control Car in order to get it through customs, but due to a baggage mix-up at the airport, it ends up in the possession of cantankerous old woman, Mrs. Hess (Marian Seldes).

When she returns home to Chicago, she discovers she has the wrong bag, and having no use for a toy car, gives it to 8-year-old Alex Pruitt (Alex D. Linz), in payment for clearing the snow off her path.

However, the four high-tech international thieves, Petr Beaupre (Olek Krupa), Alice Ribbons (Rya Kihlstedt), Burton Jernigan (Lenny von Dohlen) and Earl Unger (David Thornton) want the chip back and manage to narrow their search to a small suburban street, and then decide to burglarize every house in the street until the find the car.

By that time Alex is confined to his house with chicken pox and sees the burglars going from one house to another, but the police don’t believe him, so he has to wait for them to get to his house and make sure he is prepared for their visit.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – BEVERLY HILLS CHRISTMAS

 

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.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – DIE HARD 2: DIE HARDER

 

After the terrifying events in LA, NYPD cop John McClane (Bruce Willis) is about to go through it all again as he goes on a Christmas vacation to meet his wife Holly (Bonnie Bedelia) in Washington where he is at the airport meeting her off the LA flight.

But while he is waiting a team of terrorists, led by Col. Stuart (William Sadler) holds the entire airport hostage, while they plan to rescue a drug lord Esperanza (Franco Nero) from justice.

As part of that plan they have seized control of all the control systems affecting all aircraft, with no runway lights available, and no means to contact them all aircraft have to remain in the air, with fuel running low, so if McClane is going to save the day again he will need to be fast.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A ROCKPORT CHRISTMAS (1988)

 

As World War 2 rages on in Europe the Bundy family are making plans for a Christmas reunion in the small town of Rockport.

The matriarch Martha (Eva Marie Saint) cashes in all of her ration-stamps to purchase the best Christmas dinner she can with everyone expected round the table.

Rockport is a small town where everyone knows everyone else and the tough times bring them even closer.
But the one person no one wants to see at their door is the Western Union man, because most of the news he delivers are telegrams from the War Department, reporting the death of a loved one and sadly he makes his rounds far too often.
This is a wonderful Christmas movies with happiness and sadness in equal measure and some strong performances, Hal Holbrook as head of the family, Joseph, Courteney Cox as expectant daughter in law Nora, and the strongest of all Nancy Travis as young widow Leah.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (1998)

 

Jake (Jonathan Taylor Thomas) is a college student experiencing difficulty in getting home for Christmas after being hazed by his friends.

While struggling to get home in time for Christmas, he learns to shed his selfish, self-centred attitudes and as he does he learns quite a lot about himself.

There are some genuinely funny moments, a lot of touching ones along the way as he discovers the true meaning of the holiday.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1999)

 

Patrick Stewart 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 Joel Grey (Past), Desmond Barrit (Present) and Tim Potter (Future)

The other key characters and portrayed by Bernard Lloyd (Marley), Laura Fraser (Belle), Richard E. Grant and Saskia Reeves (The Cratchit’s), Ben Tibber (Tiny Tim), Ian McNeice and Annette Badland (The Fezziwig’s), Dominic West (Fred) and Rosie Wiggins (Fran).

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – I'LL BE HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (2016)

 Jackie Foster (Mena Suvari), is a dynamic Assistant District Attorney and single mom to Gracie (Giselle Eisenberg) and is happy enough with her life, Jackie's estranged dad, Jack (James Brolin), a gruff retired police officer, is travelling around North America in his RV and having not seen his daughter for a decade, unexpectedly shows up at her door.

His surprise visit during Christmas brings mixed feeling for her, not so for the rest of the town, who are very happy to see him again and his granddaughter proves to be very fond of him and together they do all the festive stuff while Jackie and her Dad are forced to confront the source of old wounds as he attempts to win his daughter back.