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Holiday Movies
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Starring Johnny DeppWinona RyderVincent Price
By Tim Burton, 1990.
A lonely inventor (Vincent Price) creates a fascinating boy named Edward (Johnny Depp) but dies before attaching human hands. So, Edward makes do with scissors. He lives a monastic existence until an Avon lady (Dianne Wiest) adopts him and takes him to live in the pastel paradise of suburbia.
- Groundhog Day
Starring Bill MurrayAndie MacDowellChris Elliott
By Harold Ramis, 1993.
Bill Murray plays Phil, a TV weatherman working for a local station in Pennsylvania but convinced that national news stardom is in his grasp.
- Elf
Starring Will FerrellJames CaanBob Newhart
By Jon Favreau, 2003.
When young Buddy falls into Santa's gift sack on Christmas Eve and is inadvertently transported back to the North Pole, he's raised as a toy-making elf by Santa's helpers. After growing up to be a misfit who never quite fits in, the outsized elf (Will Ferrell) decides to go to Manhattan and find...
- Home Alone
Starring Macaulay CulkinJohn CandyJoe Pesci
By Chris Columbus, 1990.
Families suck. That's the opinion of 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin), whose family unwittingly leaves him behind when they go on vacation. In no time, Kevin makes the most of the situation, watching forbidden flicks and pigging out on junk food.
- Love Actually
Starring Hugh GrantLiam NeesonColin Firth
By Richard Curtis, 2003.
An ensemble comedy that tells 10 separate (but intertwining) London love stories, leading to a big climax on Christmas Eve. One of the threads follows the brand-new, unmarried Prime Minister (Hugh Grant) of the United Kingdom, who, on his first day in 10 Downing Street, falls in love with the girl...
- Polar Express
Starring Tom Hanks, Leslie Harter Zemeckis, Eddie Deezen, Nona Gaye, Peter Scolari, Brendan King, Andy Pellick, Josh Eli & Mark Mendonca
By Robert Zemeckis, 2004.
Santa Claus does not exist. Or does he? For one doubting boy (voice of Daryl Sabara, & Tom Hanks), an astonishing event occurs. Late on Christmas Eve night, he lies in bed hoping to hear the sound of reindeer bells from Santa's sleigh. When to his surprise, a steam engine's roar and whistle can be...
- A Christmas Story
Starring Peter BillingsleyDarren McGavinMelinda Dillon
By Bob Clark, 1983.
Humorist Jean Shepard's nostalgic view of Christmastime in Indiana during the 1940s is a holiday classic. Nine-year-old Ralphie desperately wants a Red Ryder BB Gun for Christmas and wages an all-out campaign to convince his reluctant parents (Darren McGavin and Melinda Dillon) that the toy is safe.
- It's a Wonderful Life
Starring James StewartDonna ReedLionel Barrymore
By Frank Capra, 1946.
It's a wonderful film. Frank Capra's inverted take on A Christmas Carol stars Jimmy Stewart as George Bailey, a good man who's spent a lifetime giving up on his dreams in order to keep life in his small town humming. When a guardian angel named Clarence finds a despondent George poised to jump off...
- The Muppet Christmas Carol
Starring Michael CaineDave GoelzDonald Austen
By Brian Henson, 1992.
The Muppet characters tell their version of the classic tale of an old and bitter miser's redemption on Christmas Eve.
- Scrooged
Starring Bill MurrayKaren AllenJohn Forsythe
By Richard Donner, 1988.
Cold-hearted TV exec Bill Murray is about to discover the true meaning of Christmas -- the hard way. This wild, woolly spin on Dickens's A Christmas Carol sees Murray visited by three high-spirited spirits … and while there are laughs aplenty, Murray's reformation and redemption are immensely...
- Miracle on 34th Street
Starring Dylan McDermottElizabeth PerkinsRichard Attenborough
By Les Mayfield, 1994.
From director Les Mayfield, this remake of the perennial classic stays true to the beloved original. Dorey Walker (Elizabeth Perkins) and her young daughter Susan (Mara Wilson) are much too sensible to believe in anything as far-fetched as Santa Claus.
- Trading Places
Starring Eddie MurphyDan AykroydRalph Bellamy
By John Landis, 1983.
Eddie Murphy established himself as a comedy superstar playing streetwise hustler Billy Ray Valentine, who trades places with wealthy investment executive Louis Winthorpe III (Dan Aykroyd). It's all part of a bet cooked up by the rich, greedy Duke brothers (Don Ameche and Ralph Bellamy), who want...
- Jingle All the Way
Starring Arnold SchwarzeneggerSinbadPhil Hartman
By Brian Levant, 1996.
Arnold Schwarzenegger stars in this hilarious holiday romp as a harried dad charged with procuring the toy of the year. To accomplish his mission, he matches wits with a sleazy Santa impersonator, a stressed-out mailman and a horde of parents also at the end of their collective rope.
- Bad Santa
Starring Billy Bob ThorntonBernie MacTony Cox
By Terry Zwigoff, 2003.
Two criminals (Billy Bob Thornton and Tony Cox) disguise themselves as Santa Claus and his elf and travel across the country to major malls, using the good will people have toward Santa to rob the mall stores blind. The plan is going along beautifully until the two reprobates meet an introverted...
- White Christmas
Starring Bing CrosbyDanny KayeRosemary Clooney
By Michael Curtiz, 1954.
Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye play war buddies turned entertainers who fall for a pair of sisters (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen). The boys follow the girls to a resort, which is owned by their former commanding officer, and he's in danger of losing the place.
- The Ice Storm
Starring Kevin KlineJoan AllenSigourney Weaver
By Ang Lee, 1997.
Prep-schooler Paul Hood (Tobey Maguire) returns home for Thanksgiving weekend and finds his family about to implode. While his father (Kevin Kline) tries to douse his sorrows with booze and infidelity, Paul's mother (Joan Allen) looks for answers in self-help books.
