THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHESTNUT FAMILY CHRISTMAS (2021)

 

Talented pastry Chef Nina Chestnut (Meagan Holder) works as a live-in Chef for a wealthy family although her family believe she is a successful lawyer.

When her employer’s family go away for Christmas to a resort, Nina looks forward to spending a relaxed Christmas in the luxurious house.

However, during a phone conversation with her brother she accidentally commits to hosting her ambitious brothers Kyle and Jayson (Jaime M. Callica and (Klarc Jerome Wilson) and her niece Rogue (Kalista Wilson) for the holidays, because she had told them that she was the wealthy homeowner in order to impress them.

Desperate to impress her siblings, Nina enlists the help of her best friend Malcolm Butler (Brad James) to keep up her ruse, as she has told her brothers that they are engaged.

Everything goes relatively well until her employers return to the house early and her secrets are revealed, but then so are the rest of the family. 

So, with everyone's secrets exposed and the web of lies unravelled the only unresolved issue was the unrealized relationship between Nina and Malcolm.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS CONTEST (2021)

 

Something is missing in the life of successful company executive Lara (Candace Cameron Bure), though she doesn’t know what, but if you suggested it was her former professional Baseball player ex Ben (John Brotherton), you would get short shrift.

So, when they are unexpectedly thrown together, years after a painful breakup, when they compete in a televised weeklong Christmas contest to win money for the charity of their choosing, they are both shocked.

However, once their initial animosity subsides and the competition progresses, they start to talk, but Lara is forced into a difficult conversation with her mother Donna (Barbara Niven) and Ben expresses his concerns with his grandmother before they begin to rekindle their relationship while battling each other to become Denver's Queen or King of Christmas but the real victory will be love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN ROME (2019)

 

American Angela de Luca (Lacey Chabert), is a tour guide in Rome, who loves showing visitors what she finds special about the city.

But her nonstandard guidebook, off piste tours, often get her in trouble with her boss Tomasso Toffino (Simone Spinazze) and she is fired shortly before Christmas.

The next day she literally bumps into culture-shocked businessman Oliver Martin (Sam Page) from New York who employs her to be his personal tour guide while he’s in Rome to acquire a renowned Italian ceramics company, Forlinghetti.

Angela knows that to impress an old-world person like Luigi Forlinghetti (Franco Nero), Oliver will have to do things the traditional Italian way.

While Angela is opening Oliver's eyes to the joys of what Rome has to offer, she also opens his heart, and they fall in love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LAST CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

Wannabe singer Kate (Emilia Clarke) works as an Elf in a 365 day a year London Christmas Store for her grumpy boss, Santa (Michelle Yeoh).

But in the months since returning to work after a serious illness she had become an unreliable, selfish, sofa surfing, loose moraled, heavy drinking party girl, prone to making bad decisions, who had burned her bridges with almost every friend she ever had, and she religiously avoided her mum and dad (Emma Thompson and Boris Isakovic) and sister Marta (Lydia Leonard).

But then in the run up to Christmas her life takes a new turn when she meets a mysterious young man, Tom (Henry Golding) who is different from anyone she’d ever met before.

During the Christmas season he brings out the best in her and she starts to think of others rather than herself and strives to rebuild bridges with friends and family.

But she begins to wonder is Tom is too good to be true, and then the penny drops.

Tom was the young man who lost his life the previous Christmas and whose donated heart was in her chest. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS EVERLASTING (2018)

The news that Lucy Toomey (Tatyana Ali) is to be made partner at her New York Corporate law firm in the New Year after years of working long hours and sacrificing her social life is tempered by the sudden death of her older sister Alice with Christmas fast approaching.

Alice was left with some special needs after suffering head injuries in an automobile accident when she was 20 years old, injuries that Lucy felt guilty about because she was the reason Alice was driving that night.

Which is the reason she didn’t get back to Wisconsin very often although Lucy looked after Alice financially.

But after Alice passed away Lucy had to return home to Nilson's Bay for the funeral and to handle her estate, which she was dreading, and was also regretting the fact that she was too busy to take her sister's final call.

Once back in Nilson's Bay, she is reunited with her old high school sweetheart Peter (Dondré T. Whitfield) who also happened to be Alice's Lawyer who details the terms of her sister’s eccentric will that stated in no uncertain terms that for Lucy to inherit the family home, she must live there for 30 days which meant she would need to be there throughout the holidays.

The thought of spending a month in her old hometown drives her to distraction but once she accepted there was no alternative the experience was quite profound.

She discovered that her sister hadn’t suffered as a result of her accident in the way Lucy thought she had, on the contrary she had a full life and was universally loved and had more friends than Lucy, she even had a daughter.

Peter was by Lucy’s side during all the revelations and helped her forgive herself for the past and open her heart for the future.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – NATIVITY!

Primary school teacher Paul Maddens (Martin Freeman) is saddled with directing the school’s nativity play five years after an epic fail on his only other directorial outing.

He protests but Head teacher Mrs. Bevan (Pam Ferris) turns a deaf ear, but she does get him a classroom assistant, Mr. Poppy (Marc Wootton) to help, who just happens to be her nephew.

His main competitor when he crashed and burned was a posh private school and the director was a former acquaintance Gordon Shakespeare (Jason Watkins) who got the top review in town every year.

So, Paul boasted that his ex-girlfriend Jennifer (Ashley Jensen), a Hollywood Producer, was planning to come and see his show.

It was just supposed to be an idle brag, but Mr Poppy was eaves dropping and within no time the whole town knew and with Chinese whispers it grew beyond all recognition, and everyone was expecting Hollywood to arrive in town.

Paul is suddenly a local celebrity and at the centre of quarrelling parents and over-excited children desperate in their bid for fame and fortune.

His only hope is to reach out to Jennifer to help everybody's Christmas wishes come true, but she has a secret of her own.

So only Christmas magic can save the day.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – GREMLINS (1984)

Randall Peltzer (Hoyt Axton) is looking for a Christmas gift for his mild-mannered bank teller son Billy (Zach Galligan) in a shop in China Town, when he sees a cute little creature called a Mogwai, but when the storekeeper refuses to sell it to him, he steals it and returns home with it to Kingston Falls.

He tells Billy that there are three important rules he must follow in order to keep his new pet, don’t expose him to bright light, don’t get him wet and never feed him after midnight.

However, he inadvertently breaks all three rules and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on the small town and he and his girlfriend Kate (Phoebe Cates) have to battle through the resulting mayhem and destruction to try and save the day.