Sunday 10 July 2022

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – PROJECT CHRISTMAS WISH (2020)

 

Lucy Keller (Amanda Schull) works in Elmhurst at the home décor and design shop owned and run by her best friend Joan (Amy Groening) but her heart is “Project Christmas Wish” where she plays “Santa” in her small-town community, granting holiday related wishes.

The latest wish that Lucy plans to highlight is from eight-year-old Max (Averie Peters) who wishes for a "Christmas like it used to be,"

As she works to grant one wish, she unexpectedly finds her own wishes coming true with max’s father Lucas (Travis Van Winkle).

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

 

Promising musician Kate (Lucia Micarelli) has a lifelong dream of playing in the Rocky Mountain Philharmonic but following a brilliant audition her hopes are cruelly dashed and put on hold by an accident.

While recovering in her hometown during the Christmas holiday she reconnects with old family friend Patrick (Michael Rady) and finds someone who not only believes in her but someone who loves her, who she can love in return.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – SWEPT UP BY CHRISTMAS (2019)

Gwen (Lindy Booth) is an auctioneer employed to downsize a magnificent estate in the run up to Christmas for the dour reclusive owner Alan Hawthorne (Vlasta Vrana).

The success of the clearance is vitally important as her commission would set her up to purchase the auction house.

The fly in the ointment however is the head of the cleaning crew Reed (Justin Bruening) who she had worked with on a previous occasion so there is some friction between them but working on the new project offers them a second opportunity to slowly resolve their issues.

So as the two uncover the house's treasures, they help an aging father to resolve his relationship with his estranged daughter, an unlikely couple find love and lead themselves to find their true feelings and move on to a loving future together.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – PIZZA AND WHINE (2021)

Four cousins, Jennifer (Raffaela Capp), Natalyn (Natasha Capp), Millie (Ayla Kell) and Stephanie (Lily Gibson) are summoned home for their beloved grandmother’s memorial by their estranged grandfather, Carlo (Robert Davi).

Having been excited to celebrate Christmas with each other the cousins are unhappy to be around their strict grandfather for the holidays but decide to make the most of the situation and throw a Christmas celebration their grandmother would have enjoyed, with a little pizza and wine.

But issues soon come to the surface and threaten to get in the way but eventually the girls remember family comes first and they celebrate with their grandfather at their side. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – USS CHRISTMAS (2020)

 

Newspaper reporter Maddie Contino (Jen Lilley) embarks on a US Navy Tiger Cruise also known as the USS Christmas, during the festive season, where she meets handsome naval officer Lt. Billy Jenkins (Trevor Donovan).

Being a serious career officer, he is less than thrilled to be assigned to assist her in researching a story, but his attitude softens after stumbling on a romantic mystery in the ship's archive regarding an old love story and while doing so begin a love story of their own.

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – CHRISTMAS IN MONTANA (2019)

 

Four years after the death of her husband, Los Angeles based financial advisor Sara Bradley (Kellie Martin) still finds Christmas a very difficult time of the year and her and her daughter Chloe (Ava Preston) avoid the difficult conversation on Christmas and Rob’s death.

This year however she is given a last-minute weeklong assignment to Bigfork, Montana to help an important client, Travis Carson (Colin Ferguson), save his ranch, and she must take a reluctant Chloe on the business trip with her.

While there she explores every avenue to save the ranch, as her love of Christmas is rekindled, her relationship with her daughter repaired and her heart is opened to a new love. 

THE BEST CHRISTMAS MOVIES EVER – TWINKLE ALL THE WAY (2019)

 

In the town of Redbird Falls the elementary school attended by seven-year-old Mary Clark (Isla Elizabeth Grimes) and six-year-old Ruthie Harrison (Cleary Herzlinger) are preparing for the upcoming Christmas pageant, and their respective parents Cadence Clark (Sarah Drew) and Henry Harrison (Ryan McPartlin) are paired as volunteers on set building and painting backdrops.

Cadence is a Wedding Planner whose motto is "organize and prioritize" whereas Henry is more of an intuitive person and initially they view each other with disdain.

But their daughters become inseparable friends and they grow closer themselves as they strive towards their goals.

The School pageant first and foremost, but it’s when helping with each other’s own business projects, Cadences Wedding Planning for former college friend, Avery Abbott (Nicki Whitely) who wants a perfect magical Christmas wedding, and the Christmas Eve Party for socialite Sue Sutton (Lanette Ware) being organised by Henry’s Christmas design company, when the bond is forged and two families become one.