THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ELF

 

Buddy was a baby in an orphanage on Christmas Eve when he stowed away in Santa's sack and ended up at the North Pole.

He was raised by Papa Elf (Bob Newhart) but the adult Buddy (Will Ferrell) wreaks havoc on the Elf community due to his ungainly size.

Santa (Edward Asner) allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs (James Caan), who was on Santa's naughty list for being a heartless jerk, who actually had no idea that Buddy was even born.

But once in the City, Buddy, experiences the delights of New York City in the form of Jovie (Zooey Deschanel).

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE FLIGHT BEFORE CHRISTMAS

 

After getting dumped by her boyfriend right before Christmas, Stephanie Michelle Hunt (Mayim Bialik) decides to fly home to Connecticut for the holidays to be with her family.

But due to bad weather, her flight is diverted to Montana where a snowstorm strands her flight, and she has to stay the night at a hotel.

Unfortunately, there is only one available room left which is at a bed-and-breakfast and she has to share it with a man she met on the plane, Michael Nolan (Ryan McPartlin).

Well, that’s Christmas for you.

 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – DECK THE HALLS (2005)

 

Widow, Holly Hall (Gabrielle Carteris) and her son Ben (Josh Hayden) arrive at her mother's new workplace where they meet their new neighbour Nickolas St. Clair (Steve Bacic) and Ben starts to believe he is Santa Claus and throughout the story Ben tries to set his mum and Nick up together but with the ulterior motive of having his wish granted to bring his dead father back.

Finally, Holly and Nick are sent secret admirer letters from Ben and they both meet each other and figure out they were set up and who was behind it.

Holly lectures Ben on how some people were not meant to be together, but who will be right in the end.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE CHRISTMAS STAR

Christine Eisley (Bethany Joy Lenz) is a single mom struggling as her life is falling apart.

Her ex-husband Brad (Greyston Holt) won’t pay her child support but is petitioning for custody of the children, Zach (William Ainscough) and Haylie (Jaeda Lily Miller),

On top of which they are being evicted from their home before Christmas and her car is on its last legs.

One day she witnessed an accident and saved a woman’s life by performing CPR and her reward was to lose her job for being late to work.

But when one door closes another opens up and she quickly found another job at Betty’s Bakery, and Betty (Nicola Cavendish) turns out to be a great friend and more.

Fortunately, Christine finds a magical family heirloom that leads to love in the form of Jason (John Reardon) and general good fortune during Christmas. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – EBBIE: A CHRISTMAS STORY

 

Susan Lucci stars as ruthless business-woman and shopping store owner Elizabeth “Ebbie” Scrooge in this updated retelling of Dickens' “A Christmas Carol”.

The classic tale in which she is taught the true meaning of Christmas by three Spirits who visit her, has been brought into contemporary times.

It is refreshing in this version to have the main character of Ebbie played by a woman as indeed is her beleaguered employee Roberta 'Robbie' Cratchet played by the ever-reliable Wendy Crewson.

The spirits are given some modern handling and the way Jake Marley communicates with God by cell-phone is very amusing and all in all it’s a very enjoyable adaptation.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS MIRACLE (2014)

 

On the eve of Christmas, Rockford County Sheriff Rick Langston (Dean Cain) has lost his holiday spirit.

That isn’t helped when he catches a local man who had stolen the baby Jesus from a Nativity scene in order end up in a warm jail cell.

Later he finds a man at his home and Rick naturally assumes he has broken in even though he looks and acts a lot like Santa Claus.

But he arrests the jolly old man in the red suit anyway and places him in jail with the Nativity thief and then both he and Santa open the sheriff’s eyes to a few things.

Unexpectedly Sheriff Langston then meets a woman who has just moved to Rockford named Lucy Hart (Christine Lakin) and after meeting her and her daughter Alana (Sophie Bolen) he comes to realise that even when you feel that all is lost, love is all around you and that his life promises more than he could have hoped for, and he had a renewed belief in the possibility of miracles.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – RANGE OF MOTION

 

Lainey Berman (Rebecca De Mornay) and her husband Jay (Barclay Hope) are living their ordinary family lives, as most people do, just ordinary everyday stuff and then a freak accident occurs and brings about dramatic changes to the lives of their family, and Jay is left in a coma.

And months of heartache follow and then the hospital washes its hands of him and he is sent to a perpetual care facility but Lainey never gives up hope that her husband will recover from a coma.