25 Best Movies of the Holidays - 24-25 of 25

In the last week of the 25 Best Movies of the Holidays I present to you the two top voted movies which also happen to be my favorite movies of the holidays, I can watch and rewatch them without getting bored. I hope you enjoy and have a happy holidays!

How The Grinch Stole Christmas

 Length: 104 min           Year: 2000

 

Cast: Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Jeffrey Tambor

Movie Description

Big budget remake of the classic cartoon about a creature intent on stealing Christmas. Based on the book by the famous Dr. Seuss. Inside a snowflake exists the magical land of Whoville. In Whoville, live the Whos, an almost mutated sort of munchkinlike people. All the Whos love Christmas, yet just outside of their beloved Whoville lives the Grinch. The Grinch is a nasty creature that hates Christmas, and plots to steal it away from the Whos which he equally abhors. Yet a small child, Cindy Lou Who, decides to try befriend the Grinch.

 

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Christmas with the Kranks

Length: 99 mins.               Year: 2004

Cast: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd

Movie Description

With their daughter away, her parents decide to skip Christmas altogether until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they have to celebrate the holidays at the last minute. Luther Krank is fed up with the commerciality of Christmas; he decides to skip the holiday and go on a vacation with his wife instead. But when his daughter decides at the last minute to come home, he must put together a holiday celebration.

 

 

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-The Crafty Witch

 

 

25 Best Movies of the Holidays - 17-20 Of 25

In this weeks installment of the 25 Best Movies of the Holidays I bring you "Christmas Comedies" - All the funny movies of the holidays that have a touching backstory but all are very comical throughout.

 

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Trading Places

 

Length: 116 mins.     Year: 1983

 

Cast: Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, Ralph Bellamy, Don Ameche

Movie Description

A snobbish investor and a wily street con artist find their positions reversed as part of a bet by two callous millionaires. Louis Winthorpe is a businessman who works for commodities brokerage firm of Duke and Duke owned by the brothers Mortimer and Randolph Duke. Now they bicker over the most trivial of matters and what they are bickering about is whether it's a person's environment or heredity that determines how well they will do in life. When Winthorpe bumps into Billy Ray Valentine, a street hustler and assumes he is trying to rob him, he has him arrested. Upon seeing how different the two men are, the brothers decide to make a wager as to what would happen if Winthorpe loses his job, his home and is shunned by everyone he knows and if Valentine was given Winthorpe's job. So they proceed to have Winthorpe arrested and to be placed in a compromising position in front of his girlfriend. So all he has to rely on is the hooker who was hired to ruin him.

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Christmas Vacation

Length: 97 mins.               Year: 1989

Cast: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki 

Movie Description

 

The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster. It's Christmas time and the Griswolds are preparing for a family seasonal celebration, but things never run smoothly for Clark, his wife Ellen and their two kids. Clark's continual bad luck is worsened by his obnoxious family guests, but he manages to keep going knowing that his Christmas bonus is due soon.

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Elf

Length: 97 mins.               Year: 2003

Cast: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart, Zooey Deschanel

Movie Description

After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity. Buddy was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa's sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult human who happened to be raised by elves, Santa allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs. Hobbs, on Santa's naughty list for being a heartless jerk, had no idea that Buddy was even born. Buddy, meanwhile, experiences the delights of New York City (and human culture) as only an elf can. When Walter's relationship with Buddy interferes with his job, he is forced to reevaluate his priorities.

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Fred Claus

Length: 116 mins.               Year: 2007

Cast: Tim Allen, Spencer Breslin, Elizabeth Mitchell 

Movie Description

 

Fred Claus, Santa's bitter older brother, is forced to move to the North Pole. During childhood, Fred Claus suffered his younger brother Nick's saintliness. Jump ahead: Fred is a fast-talking, genial but self-centered guy in Chicago looking for $50,000 to open an off-track-betting shop. When one scam goes awry, he calls Nick at the North Pole for a loan: Nick will give him the money only if Fred comes up to help a few days with the Christmas rush. After his girlfriend dumps him, Fred heads north. Santa's facing an audit from an efficiency expert, and it's not pleasant. Fred's job is to review charts and determine who's naughty and who's nice. Is there any fraternal feeling left, can either learn from the other, and what about Santa getting fired?

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- The Crafty Witch

 

 

 

25 Best Movies of the Holidays - 14-16 Of 25

In this weeks installment of the 25 Best Movies of the Holidays I bring you I holiday classic (well at least it is in my household) The Santa Clause trilogy featuring the always funny Tim Allen. This weeks category is, as you guessed it Tim Allen!

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The Santa Clause

Length: 97 mins.     Year: 1994

Cast: Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson, Eric Lloyd

Movie Description

When a man inadvertently kills Santa on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place. Divorcee Scott Calvin is disgusted to learn that his ex and her husband have tried - and failed - to break it easy to their 6-year-old son Charlie that Santa isn't real. On Christmas Eve, Scott reads The Night Before Christmas... then receives an unexpected visitor on his roof. When he's startled by Scott's calling out and falls, the Santa impersonator disappears, leaving only an 8-reindeer sleigh and a suit with instructions to put it on if he's involved in an accident. Scott does, and is transported around the town dropping gifts through chimneys until he's taken to the North Pole and informed by a group who claim they're elves that he is now Santa. Charlie is proud of his dad's new job, though Scott's convinced it's a dream. Until his hair turns white, his beard refuses to stay shaved, he gains weight inexplicably, even for his sudden love of junk food... Now he's accepted it, there's just one problem: how to keep it secret from his disbelieving family?

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The Santa Clause 2

Length: 104 mins.               Year: 2002

Cast: Tim Allen, Spencer Breslin, Elizabeth Mitchell 

Movie Description

Scott Calvin has been a humble Santa Claus for nearly ten years, but it might come to an end if he doesn't find a Mrs. Claus. Scott Calvin has been Santa Claus for the past eight years, and his loyal elves consider him the best Santa ever. But Santa's got problems (he's even mysteriously losing weight) and things quickly go south when he finds out that his son, Charlie, has landed on this year's "naughty" list. Desperate to help his son, Scott heads back home, leaving a substitute Claus to watch over things at the Pole. But when the substitute institutes some strange redefinition of naughty and nice, putting Christmas at risk, it's up to Scott to return with a new bag of magic to try to save Christmas.

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The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause

Rating: NR           Length: 83 mins.               Year: 2006

Cast: Tim Allen, Martin Short, Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Lloyd

Movie Description

Now that Santa/Scott Calvin and Mrs. Claus/Carol Calvin have the North Pole running smoothly, the Counsel of Legendary Figures has called an emergency meeting on Christmas Eve! The evil Jack Frost has been making trouble, looking to take over the holiday! So he launches a plan to sabotage the toy factory and compel Scott to invoke the little-known Escape Clause and wish he'd never become Santa! The Santa Clause 3: The Escape Clause is a 2006 American fantasy comedy film directed by Michael Lembeck. It is the third and final installment in The Santa Clause trilogy

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-The Crafty Witch

25 Best Movies of the Holidays - 1- 5 Of 25

During the holidays I would sit with my grandparents and watch all five of these movies with them and grew to love them all in their own special way. The 25 Best Movies has no particular order, only categories. This week its all the best Vintage Christmas Movies. 1 - 5 of 25 Enjoy!

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 Holiday Inn

Rating: NA          Length: 100 mins.               Year: 1942

Cast: Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire, Marjorie Reynolds, Virginia Dale

Movie Description

At an inn which is only open on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer.

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It's a Wonderful Life

Rating: NA          Length: 130 mins.               Year: 1946

Cast: James Stewart, Donna Reed, Lionel Barrymore, Thomas Mitchell

Movie Description

An angel helps a compassionate but despairingly frustrated businessman by showing what life would have been like if he never existed.

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Miracle on 34th Street

Rating: NA          Length: 96 mins.               Year: 1947

Cast: Maureen O'Hara, John Payne, Natalie Wood and Edmund Gwenn

Movie Description

When a nice old man who claims to be Santa Claus is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing.

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The Bishop's Wife

Rating: NA          Length: 109 mins.               Year: 1947

Cast: Samuel Goldwyn, Cary Grant, Loretta Young, David Niven

Movie Description

The Bishop's Wife is a Samuel Goldwyn romantic comedy feature film starring Cary Grant, Loretta Young, and David Niven in a story about an angel who helps a bishop with his problems

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White Christmas

Rating: NA          Length: 120 mins.               Year: 1954

Cast: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen

Movie Description

A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.

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-The Crafty Witch