THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HOME FOR CHRISTMAS (2012)

 

Bobby Alden (Rob Mayes) returns home after leaving the Navy and is ready to settle down in Belmont Shores.

Meanwhile Belmont Shores resident and Bobby’s former childhood sweetheart Heather Hartly (Shantel VanSanten) dreams of directing on Broadway, but a community theatre production of Dickens' Christmas Carol is keeping her gainfully employed at the time to couple meet.

The meeting comes about courtesy of one of the trio of golden retrievers at the center of the story.

But the combination of a call from a New York producer and Heather’s “can’t take a hint” ex in waiting Roger (Mark Famiglietti) seem likely to snuff out the embers of romance.

But it is after all Christmas and strange things can happen especially with the help of the three golden retrievers and a group of dedicated and very pushy friends.

This is an easy to watch Christmas treat which gives the viewer by way of a bonus, Alley Mills, who starred in the first two “Golden” movies, putting in a cameo appearance sitting in the front row in the audience during the performance of “A Christmas Carol”.

FESTIVE FACT # 23

 

During the Reformation in Switzerland, all instrumental and choral music was banned from churches.

MUM WAS DETERMINED

 

This year, Mum was determined, for the first time,

To have the happy time the family had lacked

So, when she was preparing the bird for the oven

She stuffed the Turkey with sage, onion and Prozac!

TWAS THE NIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS # 33

 

Twas the night before Christmas

And all thru the Grange

Not a creature was stirring

Which seemed rather strange

As they were party animals

And needed little reason

But it turned out they’d gone

To Mauritius for the season

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS EVE (2014)

 

Putting her seemingly glamorous Hollywood life on hold, Evie Lee (Charleene Closshey), is forced to return to her small hometown of Balsam Falls, Tennessee, after the sudden death of her father.

Following the funeral, much to her younger brother's dismay, she is left the family's once-thriving Christmas tree farm and finds that the estate has a massive inheritance tax bill to pay.

As a result, Evie is forced to choose between pursuing her music career and saving her family's legacy, while being constantly badgered by a potential buyer, Becky Tamora (Tiz McWilliams), and fielding calls from her employer Babette (Skyler Stonestreet).

Tyler Ritter provides the romantic interest as she tries to decide where her place in the world is.

Robert Loggia, Booboo Stewart and Naomi Judd also feature in this heart-warming musical holiday tale.

MUSIC IN SPACE

 

Round the world they go

In nineteen sixty-five

Orbiting the earth

So high up in the sky

 

Dashing round the world

Above the earth they race

Jingle Bells the song, was

The first one played in space

 

O Jingle bells, jingle bells

Jingle all the way.
Oh! What fun it is to ride

In a spaceship far away hey

 

Sung to the tune of Jingle Bells

SEASONAL SNIPPET # 06

 

The early Puritan settlers of America declared Christmas celebration as a “relic of Popery,” and they abolished it.