THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A BILTMORE CHRISTMAS (2023)

Screenwriter Lucy Hargrove (Bethany Joy Lenz) is hired to write the script for a remake of a classic holiday movie, "His Merry Wife!", filmed at Biltmore House in 1947.

To help her get a feel for the atmosphere the producers send her to the Biltmore Estate for research and inspiration where curator Winston (Jonathan Frakes) shows her some of the treasures, one of which is an hourglass used in the original movie.

On a tour of the house she meets Margaret (A.K. Benninghofen) a self-confessed movie nut, in particular "His Merry Wife!" which had always been a holiday staple for her and her mother, and she becomes her confident after Lucy accidentally knocks over the hourglass and finds herself transported back in time to 1947 when the Biltmore was a movie set.

While she is there, she meets Jack Huston (Kristoffer Polaha) and they make a connection she then finds she can travel back and forth until the hourglass is broken.

So she has to assume a role in the past while the hourglass is repaired 

and takes Jack into her confidence as to where she is from.

So will they have a future together if the repair is done or not?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – TAKE A CHANCE AT CHRISTMAS (2024)

Single mother to Jae (Isaac Ng), Sutton Wu (Alli Chung) works for a publishing house, and her demanding boss is insistent she gets author Mateo (Michael Brown) to sign for the firm with his unfinished book, whatever it takes.

Thanks to Jae Sutton is signed up to a dating website which she is not thrilled about so Mateo sets her the task of going on five dates before he will allow her to see the chapters he has completed.

So she agrees and changes her life and her future and allows him to finish his book.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – WINTER IN VAIL (2020)

On the same day professional event planner Chelsea Whitmore (Lacey Chabert)

inherits a chalet from her uncle in Vail, Colorado, she learns that the promotion that she was expecting has gone to a new hire, so she quits her job and moves to the picturesque mountain resort.

In Vail she finds her mutual attractions of handsome architect Owen (Tyler Hynes), the charm of Old Vail, and a project to introduce a Strudelfest.

But will the big City drag her back from the comforting country idyll and a blossoming love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A ROYAL CHRISTMAS CRUSH (2023)

Architect Ava Jensen (Katie Cassidy) is invited to Friørland by her Uncle Karl (Charlie Ebbs) to assist him with the completion of the Royal Ice Hotel for the King and Queen of Friørland (Simon Phillips and Pip Dwyer) in time for the Christmas Ball.

Ava knows that it’s the opportunity of a lifetime and she needs to keep focused  but she soon finds herself swept up in a surprise whirlwind romance with Prince Henry (Stephen Huszar).

Much to the chagrin of Brigitta (Angela Besharah) who has been pushing her daughter Sigrid

(Kathryn Kohut) into the Princes orbit aided by Deputy Von Trier (Glenn Edward Gyorffy).

Though the couple do have the support of household member Maria (Alice Hamid), so will romance be the victor?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS SPECTACULAR (2022)

Grandma Margret (Ann-Margret) recounts the story to her granddaughter Lucy (Elle Graper) of the time in 1958, when her younger self Maggie Bingham (Ginna Claire Mason) left her privileged family in Philadelphia, putting her high-society wedding plans on hold.

She took herself off to New York City,  on the pretext of staying with family while wedding shopping, when in fact she was there to make her secret dream come true by dancing live on stage in the Christmas Spectacular with the Rockettes at Radio City Music Hall.

She just wanted to perform for one season before returning to Philadelphia to resume the life her parents (Carolyn McCormick and Byron Jennings) have planned for her and marriage Maxwell (Torsten Johnson).

But in New York, she experiences things she has never experienced before, like a sense of independence, camaraderie with her fellow Rockettes, Sofia (Sara Gallo), Janet (Larissa Schmitz) and Alice (Tiffany Denise Hobbs) and most significant of all Maggie learns what it means truly to be in love when she meets John Slater (Derek Klena) a feeling she had never felt before.

However they are from different Cities and different worlds, so can they have a future together?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS COMES TO WILLOW CREEK (1987)

 

The town of Willow Creek, Alaska, is on its knees following the closure of the cannery and are looking forward to a grim Christmas so California based Alaskan businessman Al (Hoyt Axton) plans to drive a truck load of Christmas joy from sunny cal.

However after he is taken ill on the eve of the trip, feuding truck-driving brothers Ray and Pete are forced together to take on the job along with Pete’s delinquent son Michael (Zachary Ansley).

To make things worse, along the way they run into Jessie (Kim Delaney) with whom they both have history, and she’s pregnant.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE ANGEL OF PENNSYLVANIA AVENUE (1996)

Two weeks before Christmas, unemployed Electrician Angus Feagan (Robert Urich) leaves his family in Detroit because he has heard there is work in Kansas City but when he gets there, he and the other men find that all the positions have been filled, and a fight breaks out he fleas the scene to avoid trouble but is arrested for the crime he didn't commit.

His three children Bernice, Lilly and Jack (Tegan Moss, Britt Irvin and Alexander Pollock) take an adventurous journey to Washington to enlist the help of President Hoover (Thomas Peacocke) and meet an array of colourful characters enroute to the White House with their mother Annie Feagan (Diana Scarwid) in hot pursuit.