THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – JUST WHERE I BELONG (2010)

 

Although they are living through tough economic times Scott and Patti Cooper (Colby French and Madeline Vail) take in Traumatised foster child Julia Haggen (Sophie Bolen) into their remote Michigan home.

Julia is withdrawn and believes she's unlovable and is obsessed with her treasured storybook video of the Velveteen Rabbit, then a real rabbit is accidently injured by her foster brother.

The Rabbit is left in the safe keeping of the Bunny Lady, an eccentric farmwoman and local recluse, Betsy Ross (Florence Henderson)

who cares for unwanted pets and a bond forms between Betsy and Julia while nursing the Rabbit back to health and heal themselves along the way.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – IF I ONLY HAD CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

After missing out on an award in her Kansas hometown, public relations consultant Darcy (Candace Cameron Bure) travels to Connecticut to pitch for the PR business for an educational charity Christmas program.

Through dogged determination the cheerful publicist gets over the first hurdle and then has to work with cynical VP Glenn (Warren Christie) and his eclectic team, Jackie, Riley and Bridget (Jordana Largy, Robert Markus and Lucia Walters) to raise the profile and donations for the charity in need.

Bringing out the hidden potential in the team members brings great results and Darcy even wins over hard faced CFO Winona (Brenda Crichlow) while winning Glenn’s heart along the way.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CROSS COUNTRY CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

Former classmates, Lina Gordon (Rachael Leigh Cook), a professional problem solver and Max Cooper (Greyston Holt), a tech developer, have both made lives for themselves in Manhattan, without ever knowing of the others existence, until they bump into each other on board the same flight travelling to their small Colorado hometown for the holidays.

After a short exchange between the two of them the plane takes off, however a major snowstorm forces the plane to land and then all flights are cancelled.

All the buses are fully booked all the rental cars have gone so Lina puts her problem-solving skills into action to contend with a string of challenges that they must overcome, some of their own making, to find their way home.

And as they deal with various forms of transport and interact with various people along the way, they find insights into their travelling companions and by the end love eases the journey.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – FIRST CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

Children’s author Halle Downing (Idara Victor) was given up for adoption as a baby but never found her forever family and spent her life in foster care from a young age, and as a thirty something the closest thing to family she knew was her former social worker Eugene (Lance E. Nichols).

Then out of the blue she is invited to spend Christmas in New Orleans with the biological family she never knew she had.

She decides to seize the opportunity to meet them, partially out of curiosity and partly because she hopes it might help to break her writer’s block, but she is surprised by the welcome.

However, it takes some family conflict and an unexpected love interest to get her writing again. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS BALL (2020)

After Ballet Dancer Clare (Deirdre Mullins) is let go from her company she decides to visit her Aunt Bridget (Caroline Langrishe) in England for the holidays.

The first person she meets at her Aunt’s Manor House is Liam (Nick Hendrix) a handsome historian who Bridget has employed to establish the Manor as an historical landmark and have it protected against development, when she sells it.

She is also hoping to persuade Clare to take over her Dance School, but Clare hasn’t given up on joining another Corp.

But as part of a Christmas Eve presentation for the Historical Society, Clare agrees to teach her Aunt’s pupils two period dances and during the process she finds a new focus for her talents and falls in love along the way.  

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS LISTING (2020)

 

Julia Rogers (Lexi Giovagnoli) and Chad Everest (Travis Burns) are fiercely rival Realtors who are competitors in the listing of a lifetime, the Farmstead Inn.

But in order to stand a chance of winning they have to stay at the Inn for a week as guests of the owners, Herb and Donna Erickson (Greg Evigan and Susan Chambers), to experience the holiday season at Farmstead.

So, while her sister Jena (Rachel O'Connell) takes care of the office and looks after their Dad, (Bruce Purcell), Julia competes for the listing, however the more activities they do together the less they behave as adversary’s and seem more and more like a couple and their focus changes.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – COOKING UP CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

Head Chef, Chloe (Meagan Holder) is fired from an Atlanta restaurant just a few weeks before Christmas, which is a blow to her long-term plan to open her own bistro.

Reluctantly she takes a live-in job to get her through the holidays at the home of a veteran pro baseball player, Donovon Jackson (Lamman Rucker) who is a single dad of three, Vanessa, Lindsey and DJ (Bailey Tippen, Lindsey Blackwell and Khamary Rose).

Donovan has a very strict fitness and dietary regime for him and the kids and expects Chloe to follow his menu to the letter, however his coach, Buck (L. Warren Young), who employed her, has very different ideas as he is bored with health food.

Slowly but surely, Chloe makes her mark on the menu and Donovan and romance is in the air, but then Grandma Dolores (Jen Harper) arrives early and she brings ex-girlfriend Shavonne (Marquita Goings) with her to upset the applecart which puts a “happy ever after” in jeopardy.