I love Christmas and I love movies. And when I was a kid they went hand in hand. I would spend the morning rippng open all my presents in five minutes flat, stuffing myself full of chocolate until I felt sick, still managing to eat my Christmas dinner, then settling down in the afternoon to a fab Christmas movie. Bliss. Nowadays it's a bit different: get up prepare dinner, cook dinner, eat dinner, bed. Well, maybe that's not totally true. My hubby and I always have our own little Christmas before anyone arrives. So we spend an hour opening presents and after dinner I do get to chill out a bit in the afternoon. But now, when I'm full, I tend to fall asleep! Most of my movie watching happens on Boxing Day.
Anyhoo, here is the list of my top ten Christmas movies. As always I can't really rate them, so they are just my favourites in no particular order:
1. Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Cast: Sir Richard Attenborough, Dylan McDermott, Elizabeth Perkins, and Mara Wilson
Director: Les Mayfield
2. It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore,
Director: Frank Capra
3. Home Alone (1990)
Cast: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern
Director: Chris Columbus
4. The Polar Express
Cast: Tom Hanks
Director: Robert Zemeckis
5. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Cast: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki, John Randolph
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik
6. Scrooged
Cast: Bill Murray, John Forsythe, Carol Kane, David Johansen, Karen Allen
Director: Richard Donner
7. The Santa Clause
Cast: Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson, Eric Lloyd, David Krumholtz
Director: John Pasquin
8. Santa Claus: The Movie
Cast: Dudley Moore, John Lithgow, David Huddleston, Burgess Meredith, Judy Cornwell
Director: Jeannot Szwarc
9. Beauty and the Beast: The Enchaned Christmas
Cast: Paige O'Hara, Robby Benson, Jerry Orbach, David Ogden Stiers, Bernadette Peters
Director: Andrew Knight
10. White Christmas
Cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Dean Jagger, Vera-Ellen
Director: Michael Curtiz
What are your Christmas favourites?
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18 comments:
Have you seen Joyeux Noël? http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0424205/
It's one of my favorite Christmas movies!
:)
Janna
I think I've seen about half of these. Nice round up.
I have to watch A Christmas Story every year. If you haven't seen it, it is REALLY funny!
Great picks!
I love A White Christmas.I like the old miracle on 34th street better then the newer version.
I love Home Alone! I can watch it millions of times and never get bored! :P
Don't forget Elf, Olive the Other Reindeer, Rudolph and Santa Claus is Coming to Town.
I keep planning on posting my top ten Christmas movies like I did with songs but I love so many of them that it's really hard to narrow it down.
You have a lot of my faves on your list, especially White Christmas, Miracle on 34th Street, and Christmas Vacation. Of course, I pretty much love ALL Christmas movies!
Speaking of Christmas Vacation, check out my favorite fictional character post on Clark Griswold. http://thetruebookaddict.blogspot.com/2009/12/favorite-fictional-character-clark.html
I ADORE Christmas movies, i love December arriving so i can watch them legitimately without someone thinking im crazy :P
Ive already watched most of your list this festive season, Scrooged is a MUST every year, Bill Murray puts a great twist on a Christmas Carol.
Lovely post, it made me Smile. Merry Christmas! xoxo
Some of my favorites are The Christmas List, Mr. St. Nick, The Most wonderful time of the year, I like all three versions of Mircle on 34th steet (but the old one and the 1994 version are more favored) One Magic Christmas, The Mizers Christmas, oh and the list goes on am a huge Christmas movie person..lol I watch them all December long.
What a great post! As corny as it sounds, The Muppet Christmas Carol is one of my favorites. I just don't tire of it.
Great choice! My favorites are the Miracle on 34th Street and Polar Express. Lucky us they still run each year :)
Wonderful list! White Christmas is my favorite! :)
Love them all, except maybe home alone. The kid drove me crazy. White Christmas is my get me in the mood, tree decorating movie. And Polar Express - I could watch that one all year round. Great list of movies. Thanks.
Love the list...
Tim Allen is just great as Santa....
I must listen to some Bing Crosby at the holidays... and I watch Grandma Got run Over By A Reindeer... every year as well..
Fun list..
E.H>
Fabulous list, I love the love you gave It's A Wonderful Life!!
I was inspired to create my own post of my favorites in response! I linked you and credited your post, I hope this is okay with you!
http://readingisthespiceoflife.blogspot.com/2009/12/christmas-is-here-bringing-good-cheer.html
I love christmas movies. my top 5 would be these:
1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. White Christmas
3. Frosty the Snowman
4. Rudolph the Red Nose Reindeer
5. Micky's Christmas Carol
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