THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (1959)

 

There have been a few versions of Miracle on 34th Street and are well worth watching, though some more than others.

It’s the story of a child, Susan Walker (Susan Gordon) who has been brought up by her mother Doris (Mary Healy) not to believe in Santa Claus however she unknowingly employs the real Kris Kringle (Ed Wynn) to be Santa Claus at Macy’s department store and the more time Susan spends with Kris the more she believes.

However, Kris is arrested and has to go to trial where Fred Gaily (Peter Lind Hayes) has to prove he is the real Santa and is not insane.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SECRETS IN THE SNOW (2012)

 

It’s the last day before Christmas break and the students of Eastbrook High are sitting their final exams before the holidays but midway through them a major snowstorm hits and the school is forced to close. 

Six students, Mary Jake Harper, Grayson Thompson, Brant Journigan, Anthony Goodwin, Camile Sanders and Lynn Bolton (Hollie Bahar, Vincent Seidle, Aaron Michael Johnson, Ashley Murray, Katie McCaffrey and Elizabeth Potthast) who are unable to arrange transportation before the storm worsens are forced to remain in the school.

Although they were known to each other, they were not “friends” but were confined in the library with teacher Cynthia Burgess (Karen Boles) but as the storm fails to abate and the doors are locked.

In their confinement old wounds are opened and new friendships are created, as secrets are revealed about what has shaped their lives.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SNOW 2 (2008)

 

Three days before Christmas, and Nick and Sandy Snowden's (Tom Cavanagh and Ashley Williams)

first anniversary they have an argument resulting in Nick storming off through his travel portal, a mirror.

Arriving at his chosen destination, Nick gets hit on the head and ends up with amnesia, Sandy finds out about Nick's plight and sets off to rescue him in time to save Christmas.

But she is warned that she can only assist him but that his memory has to come back on its own.

Unfortunately, someone else sees Nick's story on the television news, Hunter Buck Seger (Patrick Fabian) who coveted Sandy and blamed Nick stealing her away from him so he does everything he can to keep them apart.

Nick is helped by a young street kid named Ryan (Alexander Conti) and an elderly man Henry Mays (Hal Williams) and between Sandy, Ryan and Henry they manage to thwart Bucks plans and restore Nick to his former self, and then Sandy has some special news for him.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SNOW 2: BRAIN FREEZE (2008)

Three days before Christmas, and Nick and Sandy Snowden's (Tom Cavanagh and Ashley Williams)

first anniversary they have an argument resulting in Nick storming off through his travel portal, a mirror.

Arriving at his chosen destination, Nick gets hit on the head and ends up with amnesia, Sandy finds out about Nick's plight and sets off to rescue him in time to save Christmas.

But she is warned that she can only assist him but that his memory has to come back on its own.

Unfortunately, someone else sees Nick's story on the television news, Hunter Buck Seger (Patrick Fabian) who coveted Sandy and blamed Nick stealing her away from him so he does everything he can to keep them apart.

Nick is helped by a young street kid named Ryan (Alexander Conti) and an elderly man Henry Mays (Hal Williams) and between Sandy, Ryan and Henry they manage to thwart Bucks plans and restore Nick to his former self, and then Sandy has some special news for him.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SNOW (2004)

Hunter Buck Seger (Patrick Fabian) had to provide some reindeer from a game farm for the San Ernesto California Zoo where a lonely animal keeper Sandy Brooks (Ashley Williams) works.

Buck is attracted to her however, but she detests him, but he is continually pestering her to go out with him.

It turns out that one of the Reindeer he provided was Buddy, one of Santa's new reindeer, who he is teaching to fly, before Christmas Eve.

So, Santa (Tom Cavanagh) has to go to San Ernesto under the name of Nick Snowden to rescue Buddy, using mirrors to travel to and from the North Pole.

While in San Ernesto, Nick manages to move into the boarding house where Sandy lives and falls for Sandy, which doesn’t sit well with Buck.

Getting Buddy back is made more difficult when Buck learns that Buddy is special, so Nick must rescue Buddy and get him back to the North Pole along with Sandy with whom he has falling in love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – RETURN TO SENDER (2024)

When Meg Madison (Maddy Hillis) moves into her new apartment her friend Brittany (Sydney Scotia) discovers a weathered old envelope in the mailbox marked Return to Sender.

So, after opening the letter she and building manager Ollie Roberts (Markian Tarasiuk) join forces with podcasters Ellen and Pete (Sophia McDowell and Ian Collins) set about finding out who sent the mysterious love letter.

While Brittany and Ollies brother Darren (Michael Dallamore) follow a different path as the puzzle solving team follow the clues to the secret of two lovers separated for want of an undelivered love letter, will they all find love for themselves.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – OUR CHRISTMAS LOVE STORY (2022)

On Christmas Eve Michelle Michaels (Stephanie Charles) believes her boyfriend Richard Marks (Tremayne Norris) has been cheating on her and is just another unfaithful man who has broken her heart on another Christmas.

But later that evening she is visited by her friend and co-worker Daphne Jordan (Kendyl McCray) and her husband Trent (Reggie Gaskins) and they can see her sadness and she tells them what had happened and that another Christmas had been ruined and she hadn’t had a happy Christmas since she was 12.

So, Daphne and Trent decide to try and cheer her up because Daphne could totally relate and then she and Trent shared their love story with her to encourage her to never give up on love and never stop believing in Christmas miracles.