Looking to have some family together time with a great Christmas movie to help get the family in the yuletide spirit? There have been so many great movies made to fill you with holiday cheer that sometimes its hard to know which one to tune to when the DVD shelves are packed and all of the T.V. stations are all showing different ones at the same time.
Here are 3 Christmas movies that you and your family can enjoy over the holidays. Each of these films cover a different kind of niche that you may want to look into and begin a family tradition of watching, or just to try something new.
1.) A Christmas Carol (1951); Director - Brian Desmond Hurst. Writer - Noel Langley. Starring - Alaistar Sim, Mervyn Johns, Hermione Baddeley.
In case you haven’t heard, the Charles Dickens’ classic is a timeless story of redemption that happens on Christmas Eve. A greedy miser, Ebenezer Scrooge generally doesn’t care about anyone’s welfare. On Christmas Eve, three spirits visit him and help redeem his soul and change his miserly ways.
This version of Charles Dickens’ “A Christmas Carol” is widely regarded as the best of all of the versions ever made and this reason is largely to do with whom director Brian Hurst chose to be in his movie. The whole cast delivers a tour-de-force performance led by actor Alaistar Sim as Ebenezer Scrooge. This film is a step away from what he was known for as a comedic actor, but yet is by far his most celebrated performance. Sim displays such theatrical mastery that he captures your eye from the very first frame and runs to the very end without a single lapse. After you watch his rendition of Ebenezer Scrooge just once, you’ll swear that he IS Scrooge.
2.) A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965); Director – Bill Melendez. Writer – Charles L. Schulz. Starring – Peter Robbins, Christopher Shea, Tracy Stratford (All Uncredited).
This one is something more for the kids but has been around for so long that A Charlie Brown Christmas could be synonymous with A Christmas Carol as the quintessential T.V. holiday classic. If you’re in your 30’s or 40’s and want to watch it again, don’t feel so bad – you’ll be joined by thousands more who can’t help but to feel childhood nostalgia as they watch it with their kids. Charles L. Schulz’s classic of Charlie Brown trying to find the meaning of Christmas as it becomes more and more commercial seems to become more relevant each year. It was one of the first cartoons star actual children in an industry that was dominated by adult actors and the first featuring the Peanuts gang. The climax of Linus telling Charlie Brown what Christmas is all about – The Birth of Jesus Christ – allows our children to remember that no matter what they may get for Christmas, that it has a much larger meaning.
3.) The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993); Director – Henry Selick. Writer – Tim Burton and Michael McDowell. Starring – Chris Saradon, Catherine O’Hara, William Hickey.
If you’re looking for something different to watch this Christmas, this could be right up your alley. Tim Burton’s masterpiece about two holidays coming together and the misunderstandings and hijinx that develops from it. Jack Skellington is the Pumpkin King of Halloweentown, a place where the idea of spooky nights and naughty hijinx is celebrated every night with Halloween being the most important night of all. But this year, Jack is bored of putting on Halloween and wants to try something different. He goes off into the forest and stumbles on Christmastown, a place that holds Christmas and its ideals just as much as Halloweentown does for Halloween. As it prepares to celebrate Christmas, Jack returns to Halloweentown and convinces its people to celebrate Christmas with him – by kidnapping Santa and taking over Christmas. This incredible story is as original as any Christmas movie and is a favorite of many.
MEGA hopes that you have a very Happy Holidays sharing these movies with your family!
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