THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SILVER BELLS (2005)

 

Widower Christopher 'Christy' Byrne (Tate Donovan) still operates his family Christmas Tree farm, and he expects his son Danny (Michael Mitchell) and daughter Bridget (Courtney Jines) to do their part and make the farm their top priority.

But Danny has aspiration and has a passion for photography, but his father dismisses it a hobby.

Every December the family go into New York to stay with Mrs. Quinn (Margo Martindale) and sell his Christmas trees.

When the last one was sold Danny announced he was staying in the city and after angry words and a scuffle he ran away to pursue his own dream as a photographer.

Widowed Manhattanite Catherine O'Mara (Anne Heche) who works for the Museum witnessed the altercation and over the months following she bonds with Danny and looks out for him helps him with assignments and study facilities but keeps it from his father.

When Christy returns to New York a year later to sell his trees, he and Catherine cross paths.

When contact is finally made, Christy still hasn't learned his lesson and Danny pays another cruel price, so what will the future bring.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SNOWBOUND (1994)

 

Jim and Jennifer Stolpa (Neil Patrick Harris and Kelli Williams) with baby (Clayton Zachary Ahnert) are on a two-thousand-mile journey from Castro Valley, California, to Idaho for a funeral.

But in a severe snowstorm they lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow only 500 miles into the journey, near the ghost town of Vya, Nevada.

After two days in the car surviving on their meagre supplies and their resourcefulness the young couple leave the vehicle behind and head out on foot to find help.

After days of walking they take shelter in a cave but struggle to keep themselves and their son alive in a frozen terrain.

While awaiting rescue they run out of supplies and realise help isn’t coming so, Jim sets off on a courageous 50-mile walk through the snow to find help and return to save his family.

Also starring Richard Ian Cox, Duncan Fraser, Susan Clark and Michael Gross.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SNOWBOUND: THE JIM AND JENNIFER STOLPA STORY (1994)

 

Jim and Jennifer Stolpa (Neil Patrick Harris and Kelli Williams) with baby (Clayton Zachary Ahnert) are on a two-thousand-mile journey from Castro Valley, California, to Idaho for a funeral.

But in a severe snowstorm they lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow only 500 miles into the journey, near the ghost town of Vya, Nevada.

After two days in the car surviving on their meagre supplies and their resourcefulness the young couple leave the vehicle behind and head out on foot to find help.

After days of walking they take shelter in a cave but struggle to keep themselves and their son alive in a frozen terrain.

While awaiting rescue they run out of supplies and realise help isn’t coming so, Jim sets off on a courageous 50-mile walk through the snow to find help and return to save his family.

Also starring Richard Ian Cox, Duncan Fraser, Susan Clark and Michael Gross.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – STRUGGLE TO SURVIVE (1994)

 

Jim and Jennifer Stolpa (Neil Patrick Harris and Kelli Williams) with baby (Clayton Zachary Ahnert) are on a two-thousand-mile journey from Castro Valley, California, to Idaho for a funeral.

But in a severe snowstorm they lose their way and are stranded in an endless wilderness of deep snow only 500 miles into the journey, near the ghost town of Vya, Nevada.

After two days in the car surviving on their meagre supplies and their resourcefulness the young couple leave the vehicle behind and head out on foot to find help.

After days of walking they take shelter in a cave but struggle to keep themselves and their son alive in a frozen terrain.

While awaiting rescue they run out of supplies and realise help isn’t coming so, Jim sets off on a courageous 50-mile walk through the snow to find help and return to save his family.

Also starring Richard Ian Cox, Duncan Fraser, Susan Clark and Michael Gross.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A SMOKY MOUNTAIN CHRISTMAS (1986)

 

Country-western singer Lorna Davis (Dolly Parton) is tired and burned out in Hollywood and feels disconnected from her country roots.

Her manager Ned (Rene Auberjonois) and Video Director (David Ackroyd) are trying to steer her in a different direction, so she decides to escape to her friends Cabin in the Smoky Mountains in Tennessee.

On the drive through the mountains, she gets pulled over by Sheriff John Jensen (Bo Hopkins) and from the woods they are being watched by a witch called Jezebel (Anita Morris).

When she gets to the cabin, she finds it full of runaway children, Jasper, Cindy, Jake, String Bean, Freddie, Mary and Buster

(Danny Cooksey, Gennie James, Chad Sheets, Marc D. Robinson, Daryl Bartley, Ashley Bank and Micah Rowe) she is also being tracked by a Photojournalist from Hollywood, Harry (Dan Hedaya).

When under the witch’s spell, she stumbles into the woods and runs into a reclusive backwoodsman Mountain Dan (Lee Majors).

When six of the children end up back at the home and Lorna is locked up, Dan, Harry and Jake team up to get them all out and defeat the Witch.

Also Starring Rance Howard, John Ritter and Claude Earl Jones.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – LOVE STINKS (1992)

 

Chicago doll house designer Clifford Godfrey (Andrew McCarthy) is attracted to the wrong kind of women, going for style over substance, and his latest stunning girlfriend dumps him on Christmas Eve a few hours before they are due to fly off to an island paradise for Christmas.

He goes to a bar to console himself and meets Amanda Hughes (Kelly Preston) a stunning fellow dumpee so he takes her away instead, but she proves to be a beautiful mistake.

While he’s there, he meets Clare Enfield (Helen Hunt) who he had met briefly in Chicago at the travel agency, but she does not fit the mould of his perfect woman, but she has something to give him that none of the glamour girls can give him, love.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ONLY YOU (1992)

 

Chicago doll house designer Clifford Godfrey (Andrew McCarthy) is attracted to the wrong kind of women, going for style over substance, and his latest stunning girlfriend dumps him on Christmas Eve a few hours before they are due to fly off to an island paradise for Christmas.

He goes to a bar to console himself and meets Amanda Hughes (Kelly Preston) a stunning fellow dumpee so he takes her away instead, but she proves to be a beautiful mistake.

While he’s there, he meets Clare Enfield (Helen Hunt) who he had met briefly in Chicago at the travel agency, but she does not fit the mould of his perfect woman, but she has something to give him that none of the glamour girls can give him, love.