We all have our favorite Christmas movies. The movies (all decades old, for me) we watch year after year, even knowing every scene and every ending.
Here’s a few of mine:
This one is for the guys (I love this movie, too)!
https://youtu.be/9zMBTviVg_k
What’s your favorite Christmas movie? Share with us in the comments!
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I love A Christmas Story! It is such a great 50’s era movie:)
My favorite is the 1951 version of “A Christmas Carol” with Alistair Sim followed by the 1938 version with Reginald Owen. Kathleen (mother), Gene (father) and June (daughter) play part of the Cratchit family in the 1938 movie. Both of these are gems.
Home Alone
“It’s A Wonderful Life”-Hands down!!
All good. There’s a really old one with some old actors, think it was from the 30s where these 3 gents who all live in a big mansion decide at Christmas to see who will return a wallet with money in it when they throw it out their window. The story is delightful, but it’s also about a young couple who fall in love and the fellow gets dragged off into Hollyweird, but finally wakes up to his mistakes. Can’t think of the name, but we watched it one year and it was magnificent.
If anyone can remember it, please tell me the name. One of the guys dies and goes to heaven, another guy thinks he won’t make it to heaven, but his momma talked to the Lord about it and the Lord let him in. It’s a sweet movie…the good ones, no bad language ever!
Here it is…BEYOND TOMORROW
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beyond_Tomorrow_(film)
We watched it on prime, it’s just delightful.
How about THE BELLS OF ST. MARY’S…Love Bing and Ingrid
A Christmas Carol with Alistair Sim is number 1. My favorite scene is where Scrooge gives Bob Cratchit a raise. Such redemption. The other is when the nephew’s wife opens her arms to Scrooge and they dance the polka. I get flooded with emotion for all he forsook, and the new happiness
A Christmas Story brings back my childhood, but most important does not present the modern fake ‘As Seen On TV’ American family. All the new Christmas shows present a fake America, where families live in gorgeous homes, have multiple cars, do not dream about getting the carpet replaced. The fake adults have fake jobs, like literary agents, journalists, or coffee shop owners, and move in fake circles with other fakes. The little people, the real working class, are there for comic relief, the cashier, the slovenly repairman, the tow truck driver who is not on your wavelength or the town snobs (people who are living in the past). I still watch the fake America movies anyway because I crave Christmas trees
The scene that makes me cry the most is in White Christmas, but not the song White Christmas. The battlefield scene where Crosby and the other soldiers sing ‘Because we love you” to their beloved General and shelling starts. I cry again when they sing it again for the General as a surprise. I cry so hard it scares my cat
What a lovely post. I feel the same way.
In my post, I forgot to add that Kathleen, Gene and June are the Lockharts. Remember June who played Timmy’s mother in the some of the “Lassie” series and played the mother in the “Lost in Space” series?
It’s a toss up between Christmas Vacation or A Christmas Story, probably have to go with Christmas Vacation. We watch it as a family every year and crack-up it never gets old. I have to watch A Christmas Story by myself some in the fam thinks it’s stupid. the grinch fans of course 😉
My favorite Christmas movies are The Nativity Story, Disney’s A Christmas Carol, The Nine Lives of Christmas and The Nine Kittens of Christmas (the latter two movies are Hallmark movies and really precious)
My favorite “oldies” are White Christmas and Holiday Inn. I also love “Meet Me in St. Louis” for the way it weaves through every seasonal celebration, including Christmas, in the life of a family in the era.
More recent, my favorite is A Christmas Story—not just b/c it’s charmingly over-played so that we “get” every bit of it, but b/c I am a teacher and see every “kid thing” that they will come up with…the things I see every day rolled into one neat little bundle of a movie—–the way they think, the way their pecking order is in the “kid-dom,” the way they feel about achieving and failing, and the things we “big people” often put them through unknowingly….and sometimes how we help them grow up to be “OK” after all.