THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – DASHING HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

As she has missed every family gathering since the previous Christmas successful business consultant Emily Nichols (Paniz Zade), is desperate to get home for Christmas.

But a last-minute pitch to the CEO of the company delays her start and things go from bad to worse after that as she encounters problem after problem, a missed cab, public transport issues, diverted flights, broken-down trains and even a lost wallet, and each and every set back put her holiday plans in jeopardy.

Luckily, she has a fellow traveller constantly by her side Simon Allein (Adrian Spencer), a stranger who’s a “go-with-the-flow” kind of guy who always sees the bright side, Emily is the complete opposite.

But if they want to get home, they have to rely on one another to get to their final destination and as they face each test they provide ample opportunity to get to know each other and what they find out they like so they end up falling in love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHECK INN TO CHRISTMAS (2018)

 

When New York City lawyer Julia Crawley (Rachel Boston) returns to her Rocky Mountain hometown of Crestridge and her family’s lovely Inn for the holidays, she is just in time for the Centennial Christmas celebration.

The first person she encounters when she disembarks the train is

Ryan Mason (Wes Brown) the handsome son of the family who run another Inn that is her family’s biggest competition.

Although they are on opposite sides of a generations-old feud between the Crawley’s and the Mason’s there is a mutual attraction which grows day by day.

As the “forbidden” romance blossoms between Julia and Ryan they must try and unite their families in order to save their family Inns from a resort chain.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOMEMADE CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

Megan (Michelle Argyris) is a godsend during the holidays as she uses the weeks leading up to every Christmas to help around with any Christmas related tasks and saves the day for those who find the season taxing.

Then due to a misunderstanding when she visits a store called Trinkets and Toys she is mistaken for some kind of business guru by an investor.

As a result, the two owners Kurt and Mike (Travis Nelson and Marcello Di Fruscia) hire her to create a fantastic Christmas store display and increase footfall.

The investor David is impressed and insistent that she continue but she and Kurt continually clash but with each successive day she wears him down and works her way into his heart and he into hers.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS ROMANCE AL DENTE (2020)

 

Natalie Rogers (Anni Krueger) learns that her cousin Olivia (Nia Vardalos) has to cancel the Christmas Eve opening of her new Italian restaurant because bad weather has her grounded in Rome.

Natalie’s heart goes out to Olivia and all of the guests who were planning on attending so, despite having no experience in such things she decides she will open it for her.

Luckily, an attractive if pessimistic chef named Stefano Grimaldi (Gilles Marini) is on hand.

Although he thinks getting ready to open with only three days until Christmas is impossible, but her positivity overrules his pessimism and with the help of two young students BeeBee Jordan and Tyler (Emma Myers and Andrew Brodeur) they overcome all the obstacles.

And of course, there is love on the menu.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOLLY AND IVY (2020)

 

Librarian Melody (Janel Parrish) is new in town and moves into a fixer upper and instantly forms a friendship with her neighbour Nina (Marisol Nichols) and her two daughters Holly and Ivy (Sadie Coleman and Piper Rubio).

Her plan is to get a job at one of the local Libraries and slowly work on her house but when she finds out that Nina’s cancer has returned and she is gravely ill her plans change.

Nina confesses to her that she is afraid of what will become of her daughters when she is gone as she has no other family and without a second’s hesitation Melody says that she will adopt them.

In order for that to happen her house has to be habitable for her to be a viable candidate to adopt so she has to step up her renovations.

Adam (Jeremy Jordan) a local contractor comes to her aid with support and love.

And when the community get to hear what she is planning to do for her friend, help comes from every direction to make her house a perfect home to raise Holly and Ivy.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE ROAD HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

At a Bourbon Street lounge in New Orleans, in the run up to Christmas, Lindsey Scott (Marla Sokoloff) and Wes Bailey (Rob Mayes) are a reluctant duelling pianos/singing act, that reluctance being due to them being complete opposites.

Lindsey is classically trained and structured whereas Wes is more relaxed, and more Jazz oriented.

Their last gig of the year is cancelled at the last minute and as the money from that show was going to fund her flight home for Christmas, she is left deflated.

Her sister Allie (Whitney Palmer) is almost due with her first baby so her need to get home promptly was acute Wes on the other hand needed to get home to see his sick mother before she passed.

In passing conversation it transpired that they were both from small hometowns just outside of Akron, so he suggests that they drive the fifteen-hour straight through journey together and she reluctantly agrees.

On the road trip, they meet one obstacle after another, detours, breakdowns, adverse weather, all of which threatened to prevent them from reaching their respective homes in time for Christmas.

But as a result, they have to spend more time together than they expected and in the process, they truly to get to know and understand each other.

And somewhere along the way they fell in love.

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

 

Bill and Phylis Mitchell (Treat Williams and Sharon Lawrence) are at a crossroads in their lives and marriage, so they summon their two grown sons Mike and Brandon (Robert Buckley and Jonathan Bennett) home for the holidays.

The hope is that bringing the family together to recreate “The Christmas House” once again will help them make a memorable holiday for the entire family and community.

What the boys are unaware of is that the reason for resurrecting the “Christmas House” tradition was that it was to be the swan song as they were selling up.

The realtor turns out to be Mike’s high-school sweetheart Andi Cruz (Ana Ayora) who did not part in the best of ways so their reunion is quite frosty.

However, while Brandon and his husband Jake (Brad Harder) are anxiously awaiting a call about the adoption of their first child Mike and Andi reconnect and the love they shared in their youth would soon burn bright again.