Thursday, 17 October 2024

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ALL IS BRIGHT (2013)

French Canadian Dennis (Paul Giamatti) is out on parole and is unable to find work because of his criminal history.

To add insult onto injury he finds out that his long-time partner in crime, easy-going charmer Rene (Paul Rudd), has begun a relationship with his ex-wife.

Despite a growing animosity between them, they reluctantly agree to work together one last time as Dennis wants to make enough money to buy his estranged daughter the piano, she’s always wanted.

So the odd couple travel to New York City with a get rich quick scheme selling Christmas trees. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ALMOST CHRISTMAS (2013)

 

French Canadian Dennis (Paul Giamatti) is out on parole and is unable to find work because of his criminal history.

To add insult onto injury he finds out that his long-time partner in crime, easy-going charmer Rene (Paul Rudd), has begun a relationship with his ex-wife.

Despite a growing animosity between them, they reluctantly agree to work together one last time as Dennis wants to make enough money to buy his estranged daughter the piano, she’s always wanted.

So the odd couple travel to New York City with a get rich quick scheme selling Christmas trees.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE BORROWED CHRISTMAS (2014)

 

John Dale (Jeff Rose) seems to have everything, money, possessions, and a lavish home, but he doesn’t really have everything, because what he really wants is a good old-fashioned Christmas, which is problematic as he has no family in town.

Then he thinks he has found a solution when he enters the Rent-All store, emblazoned with a sign stating a “We rent anything.”

So he asks the owner Anne Weston (Sherry Morris) if he can “rent or borrow” Christmas.

She asks for clarification, and he specifies that he wants five children, a wife, decorations, a tree, a Christmas feast and a Christmas to be remembered.

Anne’s store is struggling, so in an attempt to save the shop, she takes on the unusual order, from the unusual man.

She tries employing actors, but illness put paid to that, so Anne decides to play the wife and her helper at the store Jimmy (Craig Bryant Belwood) plays the eldest child and the orphanage provided the rest of the family.

During Christmas, Anne discovers why he has no family, and as  she tries to fulfil all of his wishes, she ends up finding something much greater.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – I’LL BE HOMELESS FOR CHRISTMAS (2012)

 

In this Christmas tale of hope and second chances, conman and petty thief Conrad Dalton (Travis Breedlove) selects his next mark, Eve (Mandi Christine Kerr), but when he discovers that she is a struggling single mother who works at a homeless shelter, he decides to use his particular skillset to help make the approaching Christmas a memorable one for her and her son Parker (Landon Breedlove).

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE WIZARD’S CHRISTMAS (2014)

 

In a faraway land, a wizard’s young apprentice Alerik (Nick Johnson) makes an amazing discovery, a pathway under the wall of thorns that surround his land, to a shining city alive with the magic of Christmas.

He meets a young girl, Perin (Riah Fielding-Walters) and her brother Markis (Jason Cermak) and learns that on a Christmas Eve many years ago, the Dark Wizard broke the staff of Christmas, dividing their people and splitting the land in two.

Alerik and Perin must determine whether Malerus (James D. Hopkin) or Lucius (Jonathan Love) is the Dark Wizard and find a way to right the wrongs of the past to restore the magic of Christmas, before it is lost forever.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – OPERATION CHRISTMAS LIST (2016)

 

12-year-old Barney (Colton Gobbo) and his friends concocts a plan to get what he really wants for Christmas.

The plan is to beat the Christmas rush and buy the entire stock of that year’s most sought-after gift, the Patty Panda doll.

Then the gang of friends sneak into the local department store when the store was shut, hoping to use the season’s must-have toy to swap for the precise toys on their own lists. However things don’t go as planned when Forte (Brian Cook) and his professional gang of thieves show up with the same idea, and that’s when the Christmas fun begins.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS STAYCATION (2015)

 

While volunteering as a bellringer for the Salvation Army, Santa Claus (Richard Karn) narrates A Dog for Christmas, the story of the Madison family’s holiday plans.

Dave and Sandy (Hugh Gall and Janet Caine) reluctantly welcome both sides of their family for Christmas, however their daughter, Kasandra (Sophie Bolen), has only one abiding concern: Will Santa Claus read her letter and give her the dog she wants for Christmas?

But Dave is concerned about the extra work and Sandy about the mess the families are making, so will they miss Kasandra’s canine request and miss out on quality Christmas memories?