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

 

While vacationing in Italy, parents Elaine and Ted (Melissa Ordway and Justin Gaston) find themselves stranded after Ted loses his passport, so facing a delay on their return trip they need to find someone to babysit their children as their Nanny (GloZell Green) is spending Christmas with family.

The first choice Sitter is Elaine’s BFF lawyer friend, Nora (Tristin Mays), for order and discipline and Ted’s guitarist half-brother, Max (Nathan Owens) for the fun.

double-booking incompatible babysitters when one was an uptight planner and rule follower and the other and irresponsible childlike Uncle seems like a recipe for disaster but as the travel delay extends from a day to a week, the friction reveals a chemistry between them and they develop a relationship as they spar, amid the chaos and Christmas traditions, with Nora mellowing and Max growing up.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SKIPPING THE HOLIDAYS (2004)

 

A fun Christmas movie in which Luther Krank (Tim Allen) is fed up with the commerciality of Christmas anyway but when only daughter Blair (Julie Gonzalo) leaves and goes to another country he decides to skip the holiday and go on a vacation cruise with his wife Nora (Jamie Lee Curtis) instead.

All they have to do then is resist the pressure from their neighbours to participate in the house decorating contest and survive all the other seasonal nonsense.

But when their daughter calls on Christmas Eve and says she’s coming home for Christmas, it causes an uproar in the Krank household as the family scrambles to create a perfect Christmas from scratch in 12 hours will hilariously effect when the pesky neighbours suddenly become their allies.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – IF YOU BELIEVE IN CHRISTMAS

 

Susan Stone (Ally Walker) is a proper Bah! Humbug! Character.

She is a young but jaded book editor who has lost the passion and drive that defined her, and the girl of her childhood has been replaced by one who is consumed with self-doubt in her abilities.

Susan has all but given up on happiness and is on the verge of losing her job and is fast becoming persona non grata with her only remaining family.

Then out of nowhere, a cheerful, carefree, full of life seven-year-old girl named Suzie (Hayden Panettiere), surprises Susan at her apartment.

As the story unfolds it turns out that little Suzie is the embodiment of Susan's inner child.

She is the Susan she once was all those years ago and she was there to help the lost adult Susan rediscover and recapture the love of life that she had once had but somewhere along the line had lost.

But it is a new author Thom Weller (Tom Amandes) who truly redeems the modern-day Ebenezer Scrooge.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – BUSH CHRISTMAS (1947)

 

Five children in the Australian outback, Helen, John, and Snow Thompson (Helen Grieve, Morris Unicomb and Nicky Yardley), an English visitor Michael (Michael Yardley) and an Aboriginal called Neza (Neza Saunders), ride their horses from school every day.

But at the end of the last school day before Christmas, they decide to take a short cut along a forbidden path, and they soon come across two strangers.

One of the men, Long Bill (Chips Rafferty) give them money and makes them promise not to mention to anyone they had seen them.

The two men are horse thieves and are later joined by a third, and together they intent to steal a mare called Lucy belonging to sheep farmer Mr. Thompson.

When the disappearance of Lucy and her foal is discovered next morning, the children believe they know who the culprits are, so they tell Mrs. Thompson they're going camping in the bush, while in fact they plan to find the thieves and rescue Lucy and the foal and return with them to the farm.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – THE SILENT PARTNER (1978)

 

A quiet unassuming bank teller Miles Cullen (Elliott Gould) observes a man he believes is studying the bank with a view to robbing it.

He is soon proved right and held up at gun point but having Anticipated the when the robbery was going to happen, he had already stolen a large sum for himself and had only left a nominal amount in the draw for the thief, which he later places in a safety deposit box, so the money never doesn’t leave the premises until he deems it safe to do so.

In the meantime, he romantically pursues co-worker Julie (Susannah York) but it seems doomed to failure after he discovers she is having an affair with the boss.

the thief Reikle (Christopher Plummer) realizes that the sum of money the Bank claims to have been stolen doesn’t tally with his hall and resents the fact that he has been outsmarted by the teller and resolves to get what was stolen from him.

So, a battle of wits ensues between a clever and ordinarily "moral" bank teller and a violent ruthless bank robber, as they desperately battle for superiority in the end.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – A CHEERFUL CHRISTMAS (2019)

 

Christmas Coaches Lauren (Erica Deutschman) and Colleen (Tianna Nori) are best friends, business partners and Christmas enthusiasts who have turned their love for the holidays into successful careers, and every day they think they landed the job of their dreams, where they have the opportunity to give clients their most perfect Christmas.

 

Then out of the blue they land their biggest job yet, when the aristocratic Anderson family hires them.

Because of other commitments it falls on Lauren to tackle the job single handed and her mission is clear, to make Christmas into a magical event for the family even though she is intimidated by such nobility.

Thankfully she finds an immediate ally in Joyce (Jennifer Vallance) the family housekeeper who know all about the family traditions, and Lauren certainly needs help, especial to break the ice with the handsome James Anderson (Chad Connell).

 

However, James is best described as frosty as he’s in the middle of closing a business deal, and he is far from receptive to her enthusiastic Christmas spirit, but Lauren is persistent, and James begins to thaw as happy childhood memories are rekindled, and love appears to be in the Christmas air until family lawyer and childhood friend Maryam (Samantha Madely) arrives on the scene.

So, will Christmas work its magic or not?

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – OFFICE CHRISTMAS PARTY (2016)

 

Carol Vanstone (Jennifer Aniston) is a straight-laced uptight CEO is at odds with her hard-partying brother Clay Vanstone (T.J. Miller) threatens to shut down his branch if he goes ahead with the usual over the top Christmas Party.

As he never listens to his sister, he, and his Chief Technical Officer Josh Parker (Jason Bateman) press on regardless in order to host an epic office Christmas party in an effort to impress a potential client and close a sale that will save jobs, so they must get their co-workers fully on board to save the day and stick it to the CEO at the same time.