Saturday 4 June 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – TWO TURTLE DOVES (2019)

 

Dr. Sharon Hayes (Nikki Deloach) is a New York City based neuroscientist heading back to her small hometown of Pine Springs to spend Christmas with her pregnant cousin Lucy (Heidi Fielek) and Lucy's husband Roland (Zach Smadu), and it’s the first time back since the funeral of the woman who raised her, her Gramma Vera, the previous January.

After meeting with Vera's estate lawyer, and next-door neighbour Sam Taylor (Michael Rady), she finds out that she has inherited the house where Sharon grew up.

But the inheritance is conditional upon her completing a list of twelve family Christmas traditions, and they must be accomplished before she makes the decision on whether to move back into the house for good, which would not fit her life plan, or to sell it.

Her first thought is to sell but spending time with widower Sam Taylor and his adorable little girl Mikayla (Michaela Russell) and the search for a beloved family heirloom “Two Turtle Doves” she comes to realize that Christmas miracles really can happen.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE ULTIMATE CHRISTMAS PRESENT (2000)

 

While taking a shortcut through the woods, two thirteen-year-old girls, Allie Thompson (Hallee Hirsh) and Sam Kwan (Brenda Song) come upon an unfamiliar shack in the woods occupied by a grumpy old man.

After watching him discard something in the trash they pick it up and run off, when they get it home and examine it, they realise it’s a weather machine.

After figuring out the controls Allie comes up with the idea of making it snow so they can get a snow day, however once it starts, they can’t get it to stop and cause the first white Christmas Los Angeles has ever seen and are ruining Christmas.

It turns out that the weather machine belongs to Santa Claus (John B. Lowe) who was the old man in the woods and Mrs. Claus (Susan Ruttan) and she sends two elves, Crumpet (John Salley) and Sparky (Bill Fagerbakke) to help him track down the girls and to deal with a weather man named Edwin Hadley (Peter Scolari).

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – 'TWAS THE NIGHT (2001)

 

When Santa (Jefferson Mappin) is knocked out at the Wrigley’s home, mischievous 14-year-old Danny (Josh Zuckerman) and his shady Uncle Nick (Bryan Cranston) take Santa's new high-tech sleigh and almost ruin Christmas.

Although Danny’s intention is to deliver the presents in Santa’s place, his Uncle has other ideas and tricks his nephew into helping him.

Meanwhile Santa is aided by Danny’s younger siblings Kaitlin (Brenda Grate) and Peter (Rhys Williams) in locating the sleigh and when Danny realises that Uncle Nick is taking from houses when he's supposed to be leaving presents, he returns home, but that isn’t the end of the story, as they still have to face the bad guys and save Christmas.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – REDISCOVERING CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

It's a stressful Christmas season in Boston for Mia (Jessica Lowndes), talented department store window designer, whose job is dependent upon winning an upcoming competition, so when her sister Sara (Justine Cotsonas) asks her to help with the decorations for the annual Snowflake Festival Christmas Eve Dance she jumps at the chance to escape to her Connecticut hometown for the weekend, but she gets more than she bargained for on the trip.

Soon after arriving she meets Sara’s boss Adam (B.J. Britt), whose grandparents founded the beloved festival 60 years ago, who has bad news about the venue which puts the festival in doubt, as the handsome, traditionalist Adam is all out of ideas.

Mia immediately feels inspired and is confident she can save the festival even though he resists any and all innovation, but she makes allowances as he's cute and using her charm she wins him over, in more ways than one.

 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CAROLE'S CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

Carole's Christmas is a “be careful what you wish for” Christmas tale about an overworked businesswoman and mother, Carole Jordan (Kimberly Elise) who is struggling financially at work and at home.

Her husband Marcus (Anthony Montgomery) is struggling to get his landscaping business off the ground and Carole isn’t able to devote enough time to their children Maggie (Bianca Buck) and Travis (Cayden K. Williams).

One day she confides to Tiffany (Morgan Alexandria) that she regretted turning down a job offer straight out of college and thought her life would have been so much better had she taken it and when her driver Iris (Jackée Harry) asked her if she wished things could be different, she off-handedly replied yes.

The next morning when she woke up, she was living in a luxury house and had an executive position and so did her husband,

At first, she was thrilled with the house and the job, but the children were like strangers to her, so it isn’t long before she begs angel in waiting, Iris, for her old life back.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – WINTER WEDDING (2017)

 

Miranda Chester (Erin Krakow) is flying back to Carlton Heath in Vermont from her home in Seattle for a Christmas which promises to be the best of her life.

She is to reconnect with her newfound family over the holidays and more importantly to see local handyman Ian McAndrick (Niall Matter) who she fell in love with last Christmas.

On the journey she stops in Boston and while waiting for her connecting flight she bumps into old boyfriend Josh (Andrew Francis) and while chatting she lets slip the identity of her father, an old secret that could destroy her family if it got out.

She could also lose her newfound family as a result and Ian’s love for forever.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – ENGAGING FATHER CHRISTMAS (2017)

 

Miranda Chester (Erin Krakow) is flying back to Carlton Heath in Vermont from her home in Seattle for a Christmas which promises to be the best of her life.

She is to reconnect with her newfound family over the holidays and more importantly to see local handyman Ian McAndrick (Niall Matter) who she fell in love with last Christmas.

On the journey she stops in Boston and while waiting for her connecting flight she bumps into old boyfriend Josh (Andrew Francis) and while chatting she lets slip the identity of her father, an old secret that could destroy her family if it got out.

She could also lose her newfound family as a result and Ian’s love for forever.