THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – YES, VIRGINIA (2009)

 

This animated tale is set in New York City in 1897 Christmas loving eight-year-old Virginia O'Hanlon (Bea Miller) is challenged by her classmates who called into question whether or not there was a Santa Claus.

Her father Dr Philip O'Hanlan (Neil Patrick Harris) can’t help her, and nor can her mother Laura (Jennifer Love Hewitt).

So Virginia ventures into the city to find the answer and meets a scraggly Santa (Michael Buscemi) and an excitable librarian Miriam (Andrea Kessler) who cannot help so she writes to The New York Sun newspaper which arrives on the desk of the Newspaper writer Francis Church (Alfred Molina) and he writes a reply to her question which is printed on the front page of the Christmas Day addition 1897, Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – YES VIRGINIA, THERE IS A SANTA CLAUS (1991)

 

Newspaper writer Francis Church (Charles Bronson) is dealing with the death of his wife and baby and is drinking too much when his editor Edward P. Mitchell (Edward Asner) gives him a "special" assignment.

When James O'Hanlan (Richard Thomas) is struggling to find work when his 8-year-old daughter Virginia (Katharine Isabelle) writes to the New York Sun asking if Santa Claus really exists.

Francis Church writes a reply to her question which is printed on the front page of the Christmas Day addition 1897, Yes Virginia, There Is a Santa Claus.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – 101 DALMATIANS (1996)

 

101 Dalmatians is the tale of Roger and Anita Radcliffe (Jeff Daniels and Joely Richardson) and their two Dalmatians, Pongo and Perdita with their litter of 15 puppies who live in London.

Anita’s old schoolfriend Cruella De Vil (Glenn Close) wants to buy the pups, to make herself a lovely Dalmatian skin coat.

When that fails, she hires two thugs, Jasper and Horace

(Hugh Laurie Mark Williams) to steal them and imprison them at the De Vil mansion.

Its then up to Pongo and Perdita with help along the way to find and rescue them and make the journey back home for Christmas in London.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – 101 DALMATIANS (1961)

 

101 Dalmatians is the animated tale of Roger and Anita Radcliffe (Ben Wright and Lisa Davis) and their two Dalmatians, Pongo and Perdita (Rod Taylor and Cate Bauer) with their litter of 15 puppies who live in London.

Anita’s old schoolfriend Cruella De Vil (Betty Lou Gerson) wants to buy the pups, to make herself a lovely Dalmatian skin coat.

When that fails, she hires two thugs, Jasper and Horace

(J. Pat O'Malley and Frederick Worlock) to steal them and imprison them at the De Vil mansion.

Its then up to Pongo and Perdita with help along the way to find and rescue them and make the journey back home for Christmas in London.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – WALT DISNEY'S 101 DALMATIANS (1961)

 

Walt Disney's 101 Dalmatians is the animated tale of Roger and Anita Radcliffe (Ben Wright and Lisa Davis) and their two Dalmatians, Pongo and Perdita (Rod Taylor and Cate Bauer) with their litter of 15 puppies who live in London.

Anita’s old schoolfriend Cruella De Vil (Betty Lou Gerson) wants to buy the pups, to make herself a lovely Dalmatian skin coat.

When that fails, she hires two thugs, Jasper and Horace

(J. Pat O'Malley and Frederick Worlock) to steal them and imprison them at the De Vil mansion.

Its then up to Pongo and Perdita with help along the way to find and rescue them and make the journey back home for Christmas in London.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ONE HUNDRED AND ONE DALMATIANS (1961)

 

One Hundred and One Dalmatians is the animated tale of Roger and Anita Radcliffe (Ben Wright and Lisa Davis) and their two Dalmatians, Pongo and Perdita (Rod Taylor and Cate Bauer) with their litter of 15 puppies who live in London.

Anita’s old schoolfriend Cruella De Vil (Betty Lou Gerson) wants to buy the pups, to make herself a lovely Dalmatian skin coat.

When that fails, she hires two thugs, Jasper and Horace

(J. Pat O'Malley and Frederick Worlock) to steal them and imprison them at the De Vil mansion.

Its then up to Pongo and Perdita with help along the way to find and rescue them and make the journey back home for Christmas in London.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A MAGIC CHRISTMAS (2014)

 

Middle-aged bakery owner Jack Carter and wannabe novelist (C. Thomas Howell) feels that his family is in a rut, and he feels guilty that he can’t provide his wife Holly (Lisa Sheridan) and children Kyle and Sienna (Dashiell Howell and Sadie Stahura) what they deserve.

He also feels distant to his children 17-year-old Kyle is obsessed with sports and will be off to college before next Christmas and 14-year-old Sienna is permanently attached to her phone.

So, for the Christmas holiday, Jack books a Christmas break to the same cabin resort in the mountains, Farthering Pines, where he used to go with his parents.

But when he’s there, he runs into his childhood, ultra-competitive nemesis Robert Jones (Jonathan Silverman) who had grown up to be rich and successful and better than Jack at everything.

What makes things worse when Robert seems to upstage Jack at every turn, his own family appears to be entranced by his nemesis and his wealth.

In the end he apologizes to his family for being a failure as a provider, but he soon realises that the love of his family is more rewarding than anything money could buy.