THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER - ANNIE CLAUS IS COMING TO TOWN

 

Santa's daughter Annie (Maria Thayer) is to take her first trip away from the North Pole during the Christmas season.

The hope is she will find adventure and love in sunny California.

Annie arrives in Los Angeles and becomes friends with Lucy (Vivica A. Fox), the owner of the Candy Cane Inn and her daughter, Mia (Nay Nay Kirby).

Very soon she finds a job at Wonderland Toys and is persuaded to direct the Christmas Pageant at Mia’s School.

Wonderland Toy’s is an old-fashioned Toy store selling old-fashioned toys in a digital world and the owner, Ted (Sam Page) is struggling to stay in business

All the while this is going on a plot hatched at the North Pole to have her fall in love with an unemployed actor named Dean so that her Uncle Chester can take over the business.

But Annie soon realizes that she wants Ted's business to thrive because she has feelings for this Christmas traditionalist.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – MY LAST CHRISTMAS (2015)

 

Angelica (Katya Martín), is a 16-year-old girl who's battling a rare kind of cancer called Myelodysplastic Syndrome, and it will claim her life if she doesn’t get a bone marrow transplant and on top of her struggles to try to live a normal life is the very real prospect of never finding a donor match, but higher on her priority list are her hopes of finding her first true love before it's too late.

But then she meets homeless teenager Sean (Juan Castano).

A heart-warming film in which the acting is only surpassed by the Cinematography, well worth a watch.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER - MR ST NICK

 

King Nicholas XX (Charles Durning) is ready to retire and pass the throne to his son, Nick St Nicholas (Kelsey Grammer).

But Nick fails to turn up for the rehearsal of his coronation, preferring instead his lavish Florida seaside lifestyle and his sexy girlfriend.

So he falls out with his father and is enticed into portraying a fictitious Santa Claus for a charity (Mr.SaintNick.com) by Heidi (Elaine Hendrix) and Hector (Luis Garcia).

His only remaining link to the North Pole is his butler Jasper (Brian Bedford) who then hires a new cook, Lorena (Ana Ortiz) who will prove to be Nick’s salvation.

While Nick begins to fall in love with Heidi and asks her to marry him, he is totally unaware that Hector and Heidi are transferring the charity's money into their own account in the Cayman Islands and leaving Nick as the patsy.

Only a miracle can save Christmas with the help of Queen Carlotta (Katherine Helmond).

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ALONE FOR XMAS (2013)

When the family leave home to visit Grandma's house on Christmas Eve, they leave their dog at the kennels, but suspecting the family home is going to be burgled, he escapes so he can protect the home.

In essence the film is a canine version of “Home Alone” with Bone the dog pitted against burglars Jake and Rob (Jeremy Mascia and Justin Hoffmeister) and his goal is to prevent them from stealing the presents from under the tree, and he must use every trick he knows to stop them, even when they call Quentin (Kevin Sorbo) an evil dog catcher to help them.

But he keeps the home safe until Mom and Dad (Kim Little and David DeLuise) and the kids Dillon and KC (Davis Cleveland and Natalie Jane) get home and they can have a peaceful Christmas together.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – HALLMARK: WELCOME TO CHRISTMAS (2018)

 

Resort developer Madison Lane (Jennifer Finnigan) is tasked with finding a location for a new ski resort, even though she has already made the case for her preferred option in Mountain Park, but her boss tells her to take a trip to Christmas, Colorado, to consider that location and to discuss the revised incentive package they're offering.

On her way into town to meet with the Mayor, Madison has a minor collision with the town's welcome sign, which renders the car un-drivable and the sign unwelcoming.

The towns Sheriff Gage McBride (Eric Mabius) drives upon the scene shortly after it happened and offers to give her a ride into town so she can attend the meeting while the car is towed to the garage and repaired.

Little does she know however, that the town is on a mission to convince her that Christmas is the best place for the new ski resort.

While stranded in the town she falls in love with the town of Christmas, the spirit of Christmas that runs throughout it, and its residents and its Sheriff.

But the more she falls in love with the place the more she questions whether a resort is really the right move for Christmas? Or would the town be better off keeping its charm and traditions intact?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER - THE CHRISTMAS GIFT

 

George Billings (John Denver) is a successful New York City architect and his boss Thomas A. Renfield (Edward Winter) sends him on a business trip to look over a small Colorado town that he has earmarked for a possible real estate development. 

One year earlier, at Christmastime, George’s beloved wife had died so what was meant to be a joyous season is a time of painful memories for George and his seven year old daughter Alexandra (Gennie James).

George decided he would take his daughter with him on the trip for a Christmas vacation and when he and Alex arrived in the small charming hamlet of Georgetown, they discovered that it was a place where everyone, from the very oldest inhabitant to the very youngest child, believed in Santa Clause.

It doesn’t take long for George and Alex to fall under the towns spell, or for George to do the same with the hamlets lovely postmistress Susan McMillan (Jane Kaczmarek).

Unfortunately, on the strength of George's glowing reports, his boss Renfield proceeds with plans to transform the town into a modern ski resort.

Soon everyone, Susan and Alex included turns against George, despite the fact he had already lost his job for protesting against it.

However he wins the inhabitants of the mystical Colorado town back with his daring plan to thwart Renfield and preserve Georgetown's old fashioned charm.

And just to make the whole tale even more special Santa pitches in with a few "miracles" of his own.

But Pat Corley as Taxi Driver Bud Sawyer and the ever reliable Mary Wickes as Henrietta are the icing on the very festive Christmas cake

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER - 12 DAYS OF CHRISTMAS EVE

 

This is a “Groundhog Day” style Christmas Tale.

Calvin Carter (Steven Weber), is a very successful business executive who has it all, but he blatantly neglects all those closest to him.

But on Christmas Eve, all that changes when a large sign on his office building falls on him. He awakes in what appears to be a hospital bed, attended to by Angie (Molly Shannon), a nurse who soon lets him know he has 12 days (12 chances) to get his act together and achieve the "perfect" Christmas Eve.

As each subsequent Christmas Eve slips by he succeeds only in making perfect Christmas Eve’s for himself.

Finally he is told in no uncertain terms that if he doesn’t figure out what he is doing wrong there will be dire consequences.