Saturday, 9 July 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ONE ROYAL CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

After the airport is closed due to snow the Royal Family of Galwick are left stranded without transport or anywhere to stay.

However, Anna Jordan (Laura Osnes) sees only a mother Gabriella Galant (Victoria Clark) and son James (Aaron Tveit) in need of help so she offers to drive them to her father’s Hotel where they can sit out the impending blizzard.

Its only when she reaches the Hotel and introduces them to her father Ed (Tom McGowan) that she discovers the true identity of her passengers.

So, while they are snowed in Anna shows the Prince how they do Christmas in her hometown, while their best friends Sara Melnick (Krystal Joy Brown) and Christopher Brooks (Bradley Rose) take advantage of the situation and fall in love.

But after Anna encourages him to open his heart, they soon follow suit.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A FURRY LITTLE CHRISTMAS (2021)

 

New York City veterinarian Scarlet (Kristi McKamie) and her son Milo (Pono Say) return to her Vermont hometown to spend Christmas with her county Vet father Mitch (Michael Swan).

While there she is reintroduced to large animal veterinarian medicine and also meets small-town doctor Josh (Jonathan Stoddard) who is so immediately smitten that he sets out to recreate a New York City Christmas, including all the elements that she celebrates each year with Milo, but in her Vermont home-town, in the hope that she will fall in love with the town and him so she will want to stay.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CANDY CANE CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

Phoebe Saunders (Beverley Mitchell) is co-owner of Seeing Green Flower Shop, with Laurie Danes (Benedicte Belizaire), her best friend since childhood.

For Phoebe Christmas the best time of year and loves all the traditions of the season so when she learns that her most favourite Christmas tradition of all, Candy Cane Lane, isn’t happening anymore, she is devastated.

Laurie sees this as a good thing as she secretly thinks Phoebe has allowed her traditionalism to prevent her from experiencing life where she could make new traditions.

And a series of chance encounters between Phoebe and veterinarian Eric Kelton (Mark Ghanimé) lead Laurie to hope that her best friend has found someone to make traditions with.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – FIXING UP CHRISTMAS (2021)

 

A gifted party planner, Holly Green (Natalie Dreyfuss) is Known as a "fixer" by her employers because she can be relied upon to fix difficult clients.

Which is why she is assigned to the Pines account and work with young CEO Theo Pine (Marshall Williams) to plan the best Christmas party of the year in order to dazzle the Mayor.

Theo is more interested in working on the plans for the new Civic centre which he hopes will save the company, but his father insists that he work with Holly on every detail.

So, Holly immerses him in every facet of Christmas from the bottom up and while they spend every available minute together, they fall in love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A NASHVILLE CHRISTMAS CAROL (2020)

 

While talented but workaholic television producer Vivienne (Jessy Schram) is producing the latest Country Christmas Live TV show she is visited by Marilyn Jinway (Wynonna Judd) her recently deceased mentor.

It comes at a time when she meets estranged childhood friend Gavin Chase (Wes Brown) for the first time in years, when he and his client Belinda Manners (Sara Evans) arrive from Los Angeles as she is opening the show.

But seeing him again dredges up bad memories of their past friendship.

So it is timely when, Marilyn, warns her that her current path leads to an unhappy future, and introduces her to Pat (Kix Brooks), the Ghost of Christmas Past who reminds her of episodes in her life, and the Spirit of Christmas Present (Kimberly Williams-Paisley) shows her moments of the present.

 

While she is rekindling her relationship with Gavin, head of the TV network Henry Moss (Al Mitchell) dangles the possibility of a promotion to Los Angeles to do the IMA's but she has to drop Belinda from the opening number.

So the big questions are, have the Ghostly visitors softened her heart?

Will she choose ambition over friendship? Or has the friendship from childhood turned into something else.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A TIMELESS CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

In Cutter Springs, New York, On December 18th, 1903, after an argument with his fiancée Eliza Parker (Cecilia Deacon), inventor and businessman Charles Whitley (Ryan Paevey) is transported to 2020 by a magical Christmas clock, after passing out.

The antique Christmas Clock was a gift for Eliza, which, when wound on a Christmas moon help the winder find true love.

When he wakes up he finds his Mansion full of people, because his former home is now a museum, and Eliza, his maid Rosie, and his butler Fredericks are being played by actors for the entertainment of museum visitors.

Although the woman laying Rosie was actually museum curator Megan Turner (Erin Cahill) and the great-granddaughter of the maid she was portraying.

Once Charles was over the initial shock and Megan accepted that he really was from 1903 they set about finding out how to get him home.

But by the time they locate the Christmas Clock, and the night of the Christmas Moon comes around they have started to fall for each other, and Charles must decide what he wants to do.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS BY STARLIGHT (2020)

 

Family Law Advocate Annie Park (Kimberley Sustad) is incensed when she discovers The Starlight Café is set for demolition in the New Year after Chicago-based Holt Enterprises refuse to renew her parents’ lease.

Her adoptive parents Gene and Pat (Bruce Dawson and Rebecca Staab) had run the beloved eatery all of Annie’s life, so she decided to take on the Holt organization head on starting with William Holt (Paul Campbell) the heir-apparent to the business crown after the imminent retirement of his father Jim (Malcolm Stewart).

However, Jim is still reluctant to leave the company in Will's hands as he is prone to legal mess ups.

So, he wants a lawyer to shadow him and keep him on the straight and narrow, which is when he meets Annie who wants to save the Diner at all costs, while he needs a tame lawyer to appease his father.

So, they come to an arrangement, she will pretend to be his lawyer for a week, and he will halt the demolition, simple.

Well, it would have been simple, if they hadn’t got involved in organizing a Christmas fundraiser to get Will out of one of those legal messes and fallen in love along the way.