THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MIRACLE AT GATE 213 (2013)

 

An unexpected weather delay at the airport due to Chicago airport being snowbound means that holiday travellers are stranded at an airport on Christmas Eve.

Among them are a recently widowed father (Mackenzie Astin)

and his daughter Joy (Savannah Paige Rae), a retired flight attendant Rita Goodrich (Shirley Jones), a young man Joe (Linc Hand), trying to run from his past and Roy and Alma Peddington (Louis Gossett Jr. and Della Reese) who are in dispute with their daughter.

Each of the travellers have their own personal struggles, which unfold during their confinement, and each of them are looking for their own “Miracle” at Gate 213.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS IN NEW HOPE (2024)

Single mother Victoria (Katrina Bowden) is an aspiring influencer raisin her Down syndrome daughter Charlie (Mia Analise Armstrong) in New Hope Texas in her deceased mother’s old house which is threatened with foreclosure.

She enters a TV home improvement competition in order to save the house before Christmas, and she is helped by her new neighbour Texas musician Gavin Gardner (Ryan Cooper) but complications arise as she falls for him and her ex, Buddy (David Anders) arrives back on the scene.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A WORLD RECORD CHRISTMAS (2023)

Lawyer Marissa Parsons (Nikki Deloach) and her second husband, librarian Eric Parsons (Lucas Bryant) are raising autistic preteen, Charlie (Aias Dalman) with all the challenges that brings.

Charlie is flourishing in the run up to Christmas with his BFF Amy Gulsvig (Daphne Hoskins), changing into a case of puppy love.

But he becomes fixated with wanting to set a world record before Christmas as the Brookswood has been granted an official Guinness Book of World Records attempt on Christmas Eve for wrapping the most gifts in one hour.

So everyone does their part to help with his proposed attempt to stack the most Jenga blocks on top of a singular vertical one, by collecting blocks.

He really wants his biological father to be there to watch him, so will he set the record and will his dad be there to see it.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – TAKE ME BACK FOR CHRISTMAS (2023)

Renée (Vanessa Lengies) works at her local gift shop and after a particularly disheartening day she sits in her old broken-down car and wishes for a different life.

When she wakes up, she is CEO of one of the most successful meal kit delivery companies in the world, has a luxury home and is no longer with her husband Aaron (Corey Sevier).

Cici Elf (Kimberly-Ann Truong) explains to her what has happened and tells her she can simply reverse the wish.

So although she appears to have the perfect life, she wants to win her husband back, so will she succeed.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS REBOOT (2023)

Renée (Vanessa Lengies) works at her local gift shop and after a particularly disheartening day she sits in her old broken-down car and wishes for a different life.

When she wakes up, she is CEO of one of the most successful meal kit delivery companies in the world, has a luxury home and is no longer with her husband Aaron (Corey Sevier).

Cici Elf (Kimberly-Ann Truong) explains to her what has happened and tells her she can simply reverse the wish.

So although she appears to have the perfect life, she wants to win her husband back, so will she succeed.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – PUPPIES FOR CHRISTMAS (2019)

Two young girls, Alex and Peyton (Piper Sher and Morgan Bastin), really want puppies for Christmas but Alex’s Nana (Sharon Garrison) and Peyton’s father (David Goryl) can’t afford to get them one, so they come up with a plan to do a good deed.

They think that if they can do good deeds for their grumpy neighbour Daniel Nilwater (John Ratzenberger) then Santa will bring them both a puppy for Christmas.

But the grumpy neighbour is actually an earthbound angel who has lost faith in humanity and the girls end up doing far more than good deeds as they help him re-enter heaven.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – PROJECT: PUPPIES FOR CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

Two young girls, Alex and Peyton (Piper Sher and Morgan Bastin), really want puppies for Christmas but Alex’s Nana (Sharon Garrison) and Peyton’s father (David Goryl) can’t afford to get them one, so they come up with a plan to do a good deed.

They think that if they can do good deeds for their grumpy neighbour Daniel Nilwater (John Ratzenberger) then Santa will bring them both a puppy for Christmas.

But the grumpy neighbour is actually an earthbound angel who has lost faith in humanity and the girls end up doing far more than good deeds as they help him re-enter heaven.