THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS WISH (2013)

 

In the midst of the depression, William Kamp (Brian Krause) and his family are struggling to get by, especially in the aftermath of his wife’s untimely death.

Eldest son Warren (James Gaisford) wants to work at the local garage to help out financially, but his father is too proud to let him, his sister Verna (Danielle C. Ryan) wants to go to college but as the oldest girl she had to take on the roll as matriarch after her mother’s death.

Middle child Russel (Ethan Hunt) has to do his share of the chores, Tom boy Ruthie (Ruby Jones) has to wear her sibling’s hand-me-downs but has a constant companion in her dog Violet but bonds with new schoolteacher Miss Mayfield (Heather Beers) and Norman (Jacob Buster) battles with the effects of polio and falls in love with a horse belonging to their surly neighbour Mrs. Rathbone (Nancy Stafford).

The children all expect another Christmas without gifts or festivities but out of the blue their father surprises them with one dollar in change and lets the children use it to buy special gifts for each other.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS FOR A DOLLAR (2013)

 

In the midst of the depression, William Kamp (Brian Krause) and his family are struggling to get by, especially in the aftermath of his wife’s untimely death.

Eldest son Warren (James Gaisford) wants to work at the local garage to help out financially, but his father is too proud to let him, his sister Verna (Danielle C. Ryan) wants to go to college but as the oldest girl she had to take on the roll as matriarch after her mother’s death.

Middle child Russel (Ethan Hunt) has to do his share of the chores, Tom boy Ruthie (Ruby Jones) has to wear her sibling’s hand-me-downs but has a constant companion in her dog Violet but bonds with new schoolteacher Miss Mayfield (Heather Beers) and Norman (Jacob Buster) battles with the effects of polio and falls in love with a horse belonging to their surly neighbour Mrs. Rathbone (Nancy Stafford).

The children all expect another Christmas without gifts or festivities but out of the blue their father surprises them with one dollar in change and lets the children use it to buy special gifts for each other.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS TIME (2017)

Two estranged brothers, Maclain and Jake Bernard (Maclain Nelson and Jake Van Wagoner) have been estranged for 15 years since their parents were killed in a car crash at Christmas, so Maclain’s wife Clare (Clare Niederpruem) tries to get them to try and reconnect that Christmas.

He is reluctant because Jake disappeared suddenly and left Maclain to handle all the funeral arrangements and had been haunted by dreams ever since, but more than any other reason he can’t get past the fact that Jake thinks he's a time traveller. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MY BROTHER THE TIME TRAVELER (2017)

 

Two estranged brothers, Maclain and Jake Bernard (Maclain Nelson and Jake Van Wagoner) have been estranged for 15 years since their parents were killed in a car crash at Christmas, so Maclain’s wife Clare (Clare Niederpruem) tries to get them to try and reconnect that Christmas.

He is reluctant because Jake disappeared suddenly and left Maclain to handle all the funeral arrangements and had been haunted by dreams ever since, but more than any other reason he can’t get past the fact that Jake thinks he's a time traveller.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE BIG GIFT (2022)

 

Just before Christmas, Chris (Jarrod Crooks) loses his job, but he keeps it from his wife Jen (Erin Antilla) which is problematic as his son has asked Santa for a vintage dinosaur like the one Chris had when he was a boy, and that makes it expensive.

So Chris does everything possible to earn the money to buy his son the perfect Christmas gift, the gift he has been longing for, that year’s BIG gift.

The tradition in their family is to put Santa’s name on the tag but because he has worked so hard for it, Chris wants credit for the gift and decides to take it by putting his name on the tag instead of Santa's.

So Santa sends his elves to Chris’s house to relabel the Big Gift to stop him getting the credit and a battle of wills begins between him and Father Christmas.

So who will triumph in this hilarious action-packed Christmas Story.

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

 

A Christmas Carol: Scrooge's Ghostly Tale is an unusual, animated retelling of Charles Dickens' tale about miser Ebenezer Scrooge “A Christmas Carol”.

It starts with a Victorian performance of the tale using a toy stage, focusing on the imagination of one of the children in the audience, taking the story to a darker fantasy realm.

The classic tale in which he is taught the true meaning of Christmas by three Spirits who visit him, revealing to him the truth about his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current catalogue of cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways.

Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold, death or redemption.

 

The vocal talents of Martin Freeman, Simon Russell Beale, Tom Stourton, Colin Mace, Tatyana Alexandrova, Carey Mulligan, Andy Serkis, Leslie Caron and Holli Dempsey, and a talented corps of dancers bring the story to life.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A BOY CALLED CHRISTMAS (2021)

 

Left in the care of his mean Aunt Carlotta (Kristen Wiig) an ordinary young boy called Nikolas (Henry Lawfull) escapes her clutches and sets out on a perilous journey to the far north to find his father (Michiel Huisman) who left on a quest for the King (Jim Broadbent) to discover the fabled village of the elves, Elfhelm.

Accompanied by his loyal pet mouse Miika (Stephen Merchant) and a headstrong reindeer called Blitzen, who they meet along the way.

After a long and arduous journey he is rescued by Father Topo (Toby Jones) and his great, great, granddaughter Little Noosh (Indica Watson) and is shown Elfshelm, which is now under the control of Mother Vodol (Sally Hawkins) who has banned all contact with humans.

Nikolas however soon meets his destiny and wins over Vodol in this endearing alternative story of the origin of Father Christmas.