Hi and welcome to Day #3 of Blogmas! Today's post is all about some
of my favorite Christmas movies.You know those movies that you have to
watch every year, without fail, or those that best represent the season
for you.
Here's my list!
1. Christmas Vacation:
As the holidays approach, Clark Griswold (Chevy Chase) wants to have a
perfect family Christmas, so he pesters his wife, Ellen (Beverly
D'Angelo), and children, as he tries to make sure everything is in line,
including the tree and house decorations. However, things go awry
quickly. His hick cousin, Eddie (Randy Quaid), and his family show up
unplanned and start living in their camper on the Griswold property.
Even worse, Clark's employers renege on the holiday bonus he needs.
2. Home Alone:
When bratty 8-year-old Kevin McCallister (Macaulay Culkin) acts out the
night before a family trip to Paris, his mother (Catherine O'Hara) makes
him sleep in the attic. After the McCallisters mistakenly leave for the
airport without Kevin, he awakens to an empty house and assumes his
wish to have no family has come true. But his excitement sours when he
realizes that two con men (Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern) plan to rob the
McCallister residence, and that he alone must protect the family home.
3. Elf:
Buddy (Will Ferrell) was accidentally transported to the North Pole as a
toddler and raised to adulthood among Santa's elves. Unable to shake
the feeling that he doesn't fit in, the adult Buddy travels to New York,
in full elf uniform, in search of his real father. As it happens, this
is Walter Hobbs (James Caan), a cynical businessman. After a DNA test
proves this, Walter reluctantly attempts to start a relationship with
the childlike Buddy with increasingly chaotic results.
4. The Holiday:
Dumped and depressed, English rose Iris agrees to swap homes with
similarly unlucky in love Californian Amanda for a much-needed break.
Iris finds herself in a palatial Hollywood mansion while Amanda
navigates the lanes of a picture-perfect English village. Soon enough,
both lovelorn ladies bump into local lads perfect for a romantic
pick-me-up.
5. The Family Stone:
Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) wants to bring his girlfriend, Meredith
Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker), to meet his bohemian Connecticut family
at Christmas. Straitlaced Meredith, feeling she needs backup, asks her
sister Julie (Claire Danes) to come along. Hoping to win the approval of
her boyfriend's parents Sybil (Diane Keaton) and Kelly (Craig T.
Nelson) and the rest of the family, instead Meredith succeeds only in
highlighting her uptight personality and making Everett doubt his
intentions.
6. The Santa Clause
Divorced dad Scott (Tim Allen) has custody of his son (Eric Lloyd) on
Christmas Eve. After he accidentally kills a man in a Santa suit, they
are magically transported to the North Pole, where an elf explains that
Scott must take Santa's place before the next Christmas arrives. Scott
thinks he's dreaming, but over the next several months he gains weight
and grows an inexplicably white beard. Maybe that night at the North
Pole wasn't a dream after all -- and maybe Scott has a lot of work to
do.
Now, this doesn't make up my entire list, but these are the movies that I have watch every single year.
What's on your must watch movie list?
