THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS CAROL (1949)

 

Vincent Price narrates the tale about miser Ebenezer Scrooge in this 1949 retelling of Charles Dickens' “A Christmas Carol”.

The classic tale in which he is taught the true meaning of Christmas by three Spirits who visit Scrooge (Taylor Holmes), revealing to him the truth about his own miserable existence, what opportunities he wasted in his youth, his current catalogue of cruelties, and the dire fate that awaits him if he does not change his ways.

Scrooge is faced with his own story of growing bitterness and meanness, and must decide what his own future will hold, death or redemption.

The Spirits are played by Nelson Leigh (Past), George James (Present) and Jack Nestle (Future)

 

The other key characters and portrayed by Earl Lee (Marley), Constance Cavendish (Martha), Patrick Whyte, Queenie Leonard, Mike Miller, Karen Kester and Jill St. John (The Cratchit’s), Robert Hyatt (Tiny Tim), and Robert Clarke (Fred). 

 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOLIDAY IN YOUR HEART (1997)

 

In this made-for-tv film based in part on her autobiographical novel LeAnn Rimes plays herself, beginning with her childhood in Nashville up to when she was performing around the country as a country-western singer.

But then she has to make a choice, whether or not she should follow her dreams and perform at the Grand Ole Opry, or stay at her dying grandmother's bedside.

Bernadette Peters, Rebecca Schull, Vernon Grote, Carol Farabee, Harlan Jordan, Charles Homet and Rance Howard also star.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – EVENING ROMANCE IN CHRISTMAS TOWN (2024)

 

Caroline Mathison (Danielle Sarentino) books an Air B&B for her parents Debbie and Richard (Terri Minton and Ken Alter), her sister Kassi (Courtnè Alyssa) and her soon to be fiancé Carl (Joel Paul Reisig) for Christmas in Frankenmuth, Michigan.

But when she arrives in the beloved Bavarian village known for its year-round Christmas charm, she finds there has been a Christmas booking blunder and Karl Williams (Tom Kruszewski) and his grandma (Shirley Moon Koebbe) are also booked in to the same Air B&B.

So, the two families agree to share, and initially there is friction but as time passes and Carl’s arrival is delayed, Christmas works its magic and an unexpected romance results.

 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ROMANCE IN CHRISTMAS TOWN (2024)

 

Caroline Mathison (Danielle Sarentino) books an Air B&B for her parents Debbie and Richard (Terri Minton and Ken Alter), her sister Kassi (Courtnè Alyssa) and her soon to be fiancé Carl (Joel Paul Reisig) for Christmas in Frankenmuth, Michigan.

But when she arrives in the beloved Bavarian village known for its year-round Christmas charm, she finds there has been a Christmas booking blunder and Karl Williams (Tom Kruszewski) and his grandma (Shirley Moon Koebbe) are also booked in to the same Air B&B.

So, the two families agree to share, and initially there is friction but as time passes and Carl’s arrival is delayed, Christmas works its magic and an unexpected romance results.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MR. CHRISTMAS (2004)

 

Its Christmas in Eureka Springs Arkansas 1941, and Joel and Julia (Jace Mclean and Jen Celene Little) are struggling to give their daughters (Ireland Rose Maddox and Abigail Kinslow) the kind of Christmas they want for them.

Their 5-year-old daughter Carol Lee has set her heart on a bicycle that she has asked Santa Claus to bring her for Christmas.

So, will there be an uplifting ending for a young father struggling to make ends meet on a Depression-era salary of $16 a week?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A DREAM CHRISTMAS (2017)

 

Busy and hardworking Gabby Purnell (Jazsmin Lewis), her husband Tim Purnell (Keith D. Robinson) and their two children, Amber and TJ (Jasmine Akakpo Kaleb and Alexander Roberts) travel to Los Angeles from Mississippi on Christmas Eve.

They are to spend Christmas with her dying mother (Olivia Brown) and brother Marshall Carter (Peter Parros) with the intent for the family to spend one last Christmas together.

Over the course of two days, she discovers uncomfortable truths, and family tensions.

So will it turn out to be a happy family Christmas, or a holiday to forget.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – OUR DREAM CHRISTMAS (2017)

 

Busy and hardworking Gabby Purnell (Jazsmin Lewis), her husband Tim Purnell (Keith D. Robinson) and their two children, Amber and TJ (Jasmine Akakpo Kaleb and Alexander Roberts) travel to Los Angeles from Mississippi on Christmas Eve.

They are to spend Christmas with her dying mother (Olivia Brown) and brother Marshall Carter (Peter Parros) with the intent for the family to spend one last Christmas together.

Over the course of two days, she discovers uncomfortable truths, and family tensions.

So will it turn out to be a happy family Christmas, or a holiday to forget.