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Home 'movies' for the holiday season
Winter 2010 |
(CNW) Movies make for a perfect gift and are a great way to help set the mood during the holiday season. Selecting the best movie for the different people in your life can often be daunting, and so Zip.ca has pulled together a list of suggestions to get you thinking about your holiday movie selection and embracing the yuletide spirit. For your little Elves: Disney's A Christmas Carol (2009) The Polar Express (2004) Other great choices: How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966 remade in 2000) For the Yuletide Comedian: Fred Claus (2007) Christmas with the Kranks (2004) Other great choices: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989) For the Hopeless Romantic: Four Christmases (2008) Love Actually (2003) For the "Man's Man": Batman Returns (1992) Die Hard (1988) Other great choices: Joyeux Noel (2005) Christmas for the "Nonconformist" in All of Us: The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993) Edward Scissorhands (1990) Gremlins (1984) For the Holiday Optimist: It's a Wonderful Life (1946) Miracle on 34th Street (1947 and remade in 1994) A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
The holiday classic retold with Jim Carrey playing Mr. Bah Humbug (Ebenezer Scrooge) himself.
Tom Hanks as the voice of a train conductor in this visually stunning movie about a young boy on a magical trip to the North Pole.
Home Alone (1990)
A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
Irresponsible, reckless younger sibling? Even Old Saint Nick has one of those.
Empty nesters make plans for the perfect way to not celebrate the holidays, until their daughter surprises them with a last minute visit. Just like children like to do to their parents.
Eight Crazy Nights (2002) ("Get out your harmonica, it's time to celebrate Channuka!")
Nothing tests a couple in love quite like spending the holidays together... Except maybe four separate holiday celebrations with less than conventional parents.
This romantic comedy follows eight separate stories that show us in the end love trumps all - especially around the holidays. Makes you want to hang the mistletoe out all year long.
Get in the spirit watching Batman go one on one against The Penguin to protect Gotham City over the holiday season. - Quick little known fact: The Bat-mobile is actually fueled by testosterone, not diesel. ;)
Terrorists beware - do not mess with John McClane when he's trying to get to California and celebrate the holidays.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)
This is Halloween, no, Christmas. Wait, Halloween. If you love both now you don't have to decide which is your favorite.
An endearing story about an outsider trying to find his place in mainstream society. And his hands are actually scissors.
George Bailey wanders the cold streets on Christmas Eve thinking his life has been meaningless, until an angel shows him the incredible impact he has had and the lives he changed for the better.
Set in New York a Macy's Department store Santa Claus must prove he is the real Santa before the courts, or risk being sent to a mental institution. Even Santa has bad days.
