Sunday, 22 September 2024

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HEARTS OF WINTER (2020)

 

Bethany Cain (Jill Wagner) is a talented interior designer based in Boulder and is on the cusp of making it big after the success of her recently released book.

Then a national home decor magazine wants to cover a makeover contest for their New Year edition, which will get her extra publicity, but she has only the three weeks before Christmas, to choose the winner, and complete the project.

 

Bethany receives a touching letter from thirteen-year-old Zoe Oliver (Lauren McNamara) who wants the makeover for her widowed father Grant Oliver (Victor Webster) and selects her as the winner.

However he is resistant because he and his wife Rebecca bought the house shortly before she passed and wants to preserve his memory of her in the house.

 

He eventually relents and agrees to do it for Zoe, but eventually resists all her suggestions, but Bethany is slowly able to break through the wall that Grant has erected around himself and make him open up to new ideas, and in the process Grant and Bethany start to fall for each other during the makeover but will he finally open his heart romantically to someone other than his wife Rebecca.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS PEN PALS (2018)

 

After unexpectedly being dumped by her boyfriend a few weeks before Christmas, successful tech-wizard Hannah Morris (Sarah Drew) returns to her hometown for the season, and her dad, Ted (Michael Gross) encourages her to sign up for the towns anonymous holiday pen-pal matchmaking event.

She is also reunited with  her high-school boyfriend Sam Watson (Niall Matter), whom she hadn’t seen for years.

As the season progresses, with each beautifully written letter she receives Hannah becomes smitten with her Pen Pal and starts to believe that they could be her soul mate.

Pen Pals must reveal their true identities on Christmas Eve, but when they come face-to-face will it work out as expected.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – DESTINED AT CHRISTMAS (2022)

 

Kim Fenech (Shae Robins) and Theo Hall (Casey Elliott) meet by chance on Black Friday in the queue for a toy store and there is a definite spark between them, but they get separated due to a power cut and the ensuing panic.

However neither of them can forget each other and try to locate the other with what little information they could remember from their conversations.

So can Christmas magic and destiny bring about a reunion.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS WISH (2019)

 

Peyton Canaday (Ashley Williams) works at the Canaday Inn in Birch Creek which is owned by her parents.

Also in town is Dr Ben Tyler (Paul Campbell) and they have known each other since childhood but parted ten years earlier after she had professed her romantic feelings for him.

Following his return to Birch Creek, they had avoided each other for the whole of the 12 months.

But with one week to go before Christmas, they are forced back together when their mutual friend, widowed Ford Sherman (Matt Hamilton), is hospitalized for a few days and needs someone to look after his daughter, Lily (Payton Lepinski).

So they embark on Lily’s list her mother's holiday traditions, and Peyton and Ben become friends once again but as he also helps her stage a prestigious at the Inn it becomes clear that there is a distinct possibility of more than friendship.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOLIDAY HEARTS (2019)

Peyton Canaday (Ashley Williams) works at the Canaday Inn in Birch Creek which is owned by her parents.

Also in town is Dr Ben Tyler (Paul Campbell) and they have known each other since childhood but parted ten years earlier after she had professed her romantic feelings for him.

Following his return to Birch Creek, they had avoided each other for the whole of the 12 months.

But with one week to go before Christmas, they are forced back together when their mutual friend, widowed Ford Sherman (Matt Hamilton), is hospitalized for a few days and needs someone to look after his daughter, Lily (Payton Lepinski).

So they embark on Lily’s list her mother's holiday traditions, and Peyton and Ben become friends once again but as he also helps her stage a prestigious at the Inn it becomes clear that there is a distinct possibility of more than friendship. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MERRY MYSTERY CHRISTMAS (2023)

 

Krista Danser (Brittany Bristow) is a rising star TV reporter who inadvertently botches an investigative piece about a powerful political figure, her boss punishes her by giving her a seasonal story to investigate, which adds insult onto injury because she’s not a Christmas fan.

Her assignment is to uncover the identity of a thief who is stealing Christmas displays off people’s homes across the city.

But she is not alone on the case, as Detective Ryan Bridger (Olivier Renaud) who is a Christmas enthusiast and has made it his mission to identify the culprit and restore the town's holiday spirit.

As they spend more time together, in pursuit of clues to the culprit they also discover that their undeniable chemistry might actually be a true Christmas love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – OUR CHRISTMAS WEDDING (2023)

 

Nicole (Holly Deveaux) and Michael (Drew Seeley) met when they were arranging her bosses wedding and after celebrating Kim and Bradley’s (Brigitte Kingsley and Landy Cannon) first anniversary, Michael proposes and Kim volunteers to return the favour and plan the wedding for Holly.

However Holly had set her heart on marrying at the same venue as her parents, but the Castle is being torn down after the holiday so to fulfil her heart’s desire they have to marry before Christmas.

Which means they have only two weeks to plan the perfect wedding, what could possibly go wrong.