Sunday, 31 July 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHARM BRACELET (2020)

 

In Greenwich Village, jewellery designer Holly Hayes (Ashley Greene) works in the Vintage Clothing Shop run by her best friend Megan Snyder (Britt Irvin) and designs jewellery in her spare time.

One day Holly finds a valuable charm bracelet in the pocket of a donated coat, and she naturally reaches the conclusion that the bracelet, with many bespoke Christmas themed charms, was donated in error.

Holly makes it her mission to discover the owner and return the bracelet before Christmas.

Reluctantly she teams up with a magazine reporter Greg Matthews (Brendan Penny), who wants to assist her as he wants to write about her his "Christmas Hero" story.

The combination of her Jewellery expertise, keen instincts and his investigative reporter experience soon unearth the bracelets origins and the love story it represents.

But by the time they track down the owner they have written a love story of their own.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A TASTE OF CHRISTMAS (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 – THE SANTA SQUAD (2020)

 

Allie (Rebecca Dalton) is an unemployed art teacher who reluctantly accepts a job with the Santa Squad.

The Squad are employed for a myriad of Christmas tasks and projects and Allie is sent to the home of a wealthy widower Gordon Church (Aaron Ashmore) and his two adorable daughters, Rose and Iris (Hattie Kragten and Molly Lewis) to help get the house ready for Christmas.

But she decides that while she is doing that, she can help lift the spirits of a broken family so that they can rediscover the magic of Christmas.

What she didn’t expect however was that the magic of Christmas would provide her with true love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS FOR HIRE (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 MUSIC STORE (2020)

 

Music store owner Meg Reilly (Alicia Witt) loves the Christmas Tree Lane shopping district so when all the stores get eviction notices she spearheads the community efforts to save them from demolition.

Around the same time, she makes the acquaintance of Nate Williams (Andrew W. Walker) and there is an instant attraction and they meet numerous times after and clearly enjoy each other’s company especially when he gets involved with the campaign to save Christmas Tree Lane.

However, as they find themselves falling for each other, they are both shocked to find out he is actually working for the developer Meg is fighting.

But he becomes instrumental in saving the shopping district from development and her heart is won.

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

The School Board has decided her Middle school will be closing in the New Year so Principal Addison Tate (Cindy Sampson) wants the last Christmas to be really special for her kids because it’s going to be the last.

So, she invites former alumni and old flame, Hollywood star Dylan Davidson (Steve Byers) to direct the school play in an effort to save the school.

Initially his Manager Garth Turnbull (Arnold Pinnock) ignores her calls but as he has no other work in the pipeline Dylan agrees and it looks like its mutually beneficial.

However, it is a mutual attraction which dominates their run up to Christmas.  

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN ANGEL FALLS 2 (2019)

 

Hannah Pressman (Jen Lilley) works at the family's publishing company in Angel Falls, which they want to expand but are unsure which direction they should take.

But then Ryan MacDonald (Carlo Marks) arrives in town to sort out his parent’s estate.

He is an old friend, but also a rival from their school days and her parents engages him as a marketing consultant to help with their expansion which upsets Hannah.

But it’s a new tenant in Ryan's parents’ house, famous author Tina Finnegan (Rachael Crawford) and Guardian Angel Anthony (Eric Close) who are instrumental in bringing Hannah and Ryan together in a perfect Angel Falls romance.