THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LONESTAR CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

Widowed mother Erin Oliver (Stephanie Bennett) reluctantly takes her daughters Peyton and Carter (Lina Renna and Emma Oliver) to spend Christmas with her estranged Dad Gary (Brent Stait) and stepmom Farrah (Colleen Wheeler) on his Texas ranch.

On the way to the ranch, the tarpaulin comes adrift, shedding parcels all over the road, and Mateo, a family friend of her father, local Mexican restaurant owner Mateo Verdosa (Marco Grazzini) comes to her aid and sparks clearly fly.

Over the coming days Erin spends a lot of time with Mateo but her strained relationship with her dad keeps niggling at her, but the girls love him, and she can see he is a good and loving grandpa.

But in the end, she needs to forgive her father for the past and enjoy the fact that she had unexpectedly fallen in love with Mateo.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – NOSTALGIC CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

Anne Garrison (Brooke D'Orsay) is head toy buyer for Sinclair's chain of department stores and is riding high when she leaves New York City for North Bay, Maine, to help her father Bill (Ron Lea) close up his store, Garrison's Toys, due to his impending retirement.

What he wants is for Anne to take over the store and run it, but she already has a job, which she keeps reminding him.

So, her mindset is very much on packing up the store and returning to the City, but then she meets Wood Mill manager Keith McClain (Trevor Donovan) and his ten year old daughter Jessie (Jenna Weir) and her mind is not quite as set as it was.

In part its due to a set of themed wooden Santa’s which Anne carved just before she went away to college, which seem to work magic for the people who receive them.

But also, it’s the love and nostalgia that brings the city girl back to her small-town roots.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS LOVE LETTER (2019)

 

Amalie Hess (Ashley Newbrough) is a magazine feature writer dolling out relationship guidance but is sadly lacking herself in the relationship and romance department.

So, when she receives a Christmas card containing an unsigned love letter from someone she was at school with, full of romance and longing, the envelope bearing the postmark from her hometown, she starts to try and find out who the sender was.

So, to tackle the puzzle of who sent it head on she decided to head home and possibly discover the author.

The first person she meets is her old school friend Ian McCallister (Tilky Jones) and his daughter Marty (Izzy Herbert), so would they shed any light?

Or will she need to look further afield to find true love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – BOYFRIENDS OF CHRISTMAS PAST (2021)

 

Late one night, in the run up to Christmas, Marketing Executive Lauren Kim (Catherine Haena Kim) has fallen asleep in her apartment while working on a last minute work project.

While asleep she is visited by the spirit of her first ever boyfriend, Tyler Mirsky (Jordan Kronis) and he tells her she will be visited by three other ex-boyfriends before Christmas.

On waking she dismisses it as just a very odd dream, but right on cue came Jake (Karn Kalra), then Henry (Ish Morris) and finally Logan (Jon McLaren) and all of then showed her their break up moments.

It soon becomes apparent that the one thing they all had in common was when they broke up, Christmas.

The other thing they had in common was her best friend, Nate Sagar (Raymond Ablack), who was a constant in her life, through thick and thin.

She comes to the conclusion that she must learn to open her heart to Nate or risk losing him forever.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN DOLLYWOOD 2019

 

Tennessee girl Rachel Davis (Danica McKellar) is a New York City event planner and having successfully concluded the final event on her calendar for the year she travels home for the holidays with her daughter Ava (Zoë Noelle Baker).

Although her intention was to just enjoy the holidays with her family, she ends up working on the thirtieth anniversary Christmas event at Dollywood with the theme park's Director of Operations Luke Hackman (Niall Matter).

As they work closely to make it a memorable 30th Anniversary they spend an increasing amount of time just enjoying the season and each other.

The only thing is that Rachel is going back to New York after the holidays to take up a promotion and Luke is headed out of Dollywood to Wild West Amusements, unless Christmas love gets into their hearts.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS JARS (2019)

 

Hope (Jeni Ross) was abandoned as a baby and left in a diner booth and was discovered by waitress Louise Jensen (Jodi Larratt) who adopted her.

Hope has a very happy life with her adoptive mum until the time Louise is suddenly taken ill and passes away.

The day after the funeral she returns home to the apartment to find it has been burgled.

As the Police Officer is taking her statement Hope is feeling at her absolute lowest and then she discovered a Christmas Jar left anonymously in the hallway outside her apartment filled with coins and bank notes.

As a reporter for an online publication, she is tasked with writing a feelgood holiday piece, so she decides to investigate the "Christmas Jars" which have become a widespread phenomenon and tries to uncover the secret benefactors.

Using her journalistic skills, she tracks down the original act of kindness to the Maxwell family who have a business restoring used furniture.

Posing as a customer she manages to worm her way into the bossom of a loving family, but she gets in too deep and falls in love with Ian Maxwell (Markian Tarasiuk) but when the truth gets out that love will be put at risk.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – GHOSTING: THE SPIRIT OF CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

As she is driving home, Jess (Aisha Dee) is preoccupied with texting following the best first date of her life with Ben (Kendrick Sampson) and is killed in a car crash and after the accident she wakes up as a ghost.

She is unable to move on, so she assumes she has to settle unfinished business first.

She is drawn to her best friend Kara (Kimiko Glenn) and is surprised that she can see her so they embark on an hilarious, bittersweet final adventure to determine what it is that’s keeping her earthbound so that Jess can ascend to the afterlife.