THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS SETUP (2020)

 

Hard working and talented Manhattan lawyer Hugo Spencer (Ben Lewis), disappointed not to get the position as partner, issues an ultimatum to his boss, George Vogel (Glen Grant) just before he and his BFF since college Madelyn McKay (Ellen Wong), are to head off to Milwaukee to spend Christmas with his long-widowed mother (Fran Drescher) and his brother Aiden Spencer (Chad Connell).

Once in Milwaukee, Hugo finds that his mother, as part of her role as President of the Carroll Avenue Neighborhood Association, has assigned them all with 24/7 tasks organizing the annual Christmas Eve Festival at the historic Carroll Avenue Train Station, which is how Hugo meets Patrick Ryan (Blake Lee) again, his high school crush, and their repeated interactions eventually lead him to question if a big promotion is as important to him as he first thought.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS EVER AFTER (2020)

Successful Romantic Adventure writer Izzi Simmons (Ali Stroker) is working on the fourth in the popular series of books, but her best friend and editor Mila (Kim Nelson) thinks that the ending of her first draft, which was delivered late, is too perfect and her main character Desmond Ranes is unrealistic.

So, with a new deadline of Christmas Eve Izzie convinces Mila to allow her to work on the necessary edits from the Antler Lodge in Silver Springs.

Which was where she went every year, as she was a traditionalist and in her view of the perfect Christmas it was a winter wonderland.

So the Lodge was her Christmas home away from home, and Bob (Bill Marchant), the proprietor, was as much a traditionalist as her.

However, on her arrival she is horrified to find Bob is retiring and his son Matt (Daniel di Tomasso) is taking over, and he wants to make improvements to the Lodge.

She is also slightly taken aback by his startling resemblance to the leading character in her books and as its Christmastime sparks fly between them and romance blooms and she gets the ending to her book and her hero. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE NAUGHTY LIST (2019)

 

Brand strategist Chelsea Simms (Vanessa Lengies) is devastated when her brilliant idea for a new dating app is stolen by a workplace rival, but following a Christmas wish upon a shooting star good-hearted Chelsea’s fortunes takes a turn for the better.

When she discovers the popular dating app “The Nice List”, has granted her magical powers, which she uses to teach all the selfish, “naughty” people in her life a lesson until Mrs. Kringle (Morgan Fairchild) and best friend Fisher Dougherty (Evan Williams) set her on the path to use her newfound ability to make all of the naughty people in her life learn how to be good again and also find her way back onto the Nice List herself in time for Christmas Eve.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A DATE BY CHRISTMAS EVE (2019)

 

Brand strategist Chelsea Simms (Vanessa Lengies) is devastated when her brilliant idea for a new dating app is stolen by a workplace rival, but following a Christmas wish upon a shooting star good-hearted Chelsea’s fortunes takes a turn for the better.

When she discovers the popular dating app “The Nice List”, has granted her magical powers, which she uses to teach all the selfish, “naughty” people in her life a lesson until Mrs. Kringle (Morgan Fairchild) and best friend Fisher Dougherty (Evan Williams) set her on the path to use her newfound ability to make all of the naughty people in her life learn how to be good again and also find her way back onto the Nice List herself in time for Christmas Eve.

THE BEST CH RISTMAS MOVIES EVER – COLD FEET AT CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

On the day of her wedding Maggie Colby (Sara Mitich) is overwhelmed with the feeling that she doesn’t love her fiancé Douglas Wilshire (Joseph Cannata) enough to marry him.

She certainly didn’t love him as much as her sister Olivia (Candice Mausner) and parents did, so she ran away to her Grandmothers Lodge to try to sort out her feelings.

While staying with Nana (Mimi Kuzyk) she is reunited with her ex, Colt (Harmon Walsh) and then a blizzard hit and they were trapped in the lodge and she battles to make sense of things, but a wedding certainly ensues.

THE BEST CH RISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHRISTMAS WEDDING RUNAWAY (2019)

 

On the day of her wedding Maggie Colby (Sara Mitich) is overwhelmed with the feeling that she doesn’t love her fiancé Douglas Wilshire (Joseph Cannata) enough to marry him.

She certainly didn’t love him as much as her sister Olivia (Candice Mausner) and parents did, so she ran away to her Grandmothers Lodge to try to sort out her feelings.

While staying with Nana (Mimi Kuzyk) she is reunited with her ex, Colt (Harmon Walsh) and then a blizzard hit and they were trapped in the lodge and she battles to make sense of things, but a wedding certainly ensues.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN EVERGREEN 3 (2019)

Author of one published novel, New Yorker Katie Connell (Maggie Lawson), is doing freelance work as she struggles for inspiration for book number two.

So, approaching the Christmas season she decides to take a short vacation to experience a little more of life outside of her normal environs which she hopes will make her a better writer.

Her destination is the Northern Vermont town of Evergreen, a town famed for its Christmas passion and very popular with holiday tourists and she is much impressed with what she sees and who.

Namely native Evergreenian Ben Baxter (Paul Greene) with whom she felt an immediate attraction which is not diminished by their subsequent encounters.

However, what starts as a vacation turns into a working holiday when her mother and business magazine editor Patti Connell (Laura Soltis) asks her to write a story for the Christmas edition.

Katie fails to find a business angle so decides to find a story about Evergreen and its Christmas traditions and the search for a long-lost time capsule.