Saturday, 9 July 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS ON DISPLAY (2020)

 

Abbey (Meggan Kaiser) is a successful big city real estate broker on the verge of a big promotion when she has to return to her former hometown after the death of her grandmother.

The old Victorian home in which she spent so many Christmases as a child has been left to her in her grandmothers will.

She immediately decides to sell up, but the house needs work before she can put it on the market, so she resolves to hire someone, who turns out to be her childhood crush Josh (Zane Stephens).

While working on the house they find delightful Christmas treasure which had been hidden around the house by her grandmother, and with the help of single Dad Josh and his young son Noah (Bryson Jon Steele) she rediscovers her Christmas spirit and questions the wisdom of selling the house which could become her home.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MEET ME AT CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

When a wedding planner unexpectedly quits only days before her sons Christmas Eve Wedding, Joan (Catherine Bell) steps in to coordinate all the arrangements at the resort Hotel where she had her romantic awakening.

She is assisted by the brides Uncle Beau (Mark Deklin) but as they work alongside each other to make the perfect day, overcoming problems and obstacles along the way, they discover that their pasts, presents and futures are intertwined.

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.