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I love Christmas movies, and I’ve made assorted recommendations for Christmas movies over the years, but this year it seemed like a good idea to list ALL the Christmas movies we watch, just in case you found yourself quarantined
or isolating
or just plain bored,
looking for something new to watch,
and finding yourself afraid you’re going to resort to watching the Hallmark Channel.
Do not do that.
I switched it on while getting some Christmas boxes ready to go,
thinking, “How bad could it be?”
The answer was BAD
REALLY BAD.
So here to save you in the Nick of time (get it? Nick?) our list of Christmas movies that are actually GOOD. My family has spent years accumulating these because once you get past the classics that everybody’s seen, good Christmas movies are few and far between and we had to watch lots of bad ones to find the ones we did. Many Bothans died to bring you this list.
We won’t name any of the ones we hate (THE FAMILY STONE and HOLIDAY AFFAIR with Janet Leigh and Robert Mitchum) because that always turns out to be somebody’s favorite, and we’re sorry if your favorite didn’t make it onto our list. It could be because we haven’t seen it or because we didn’t think it qualified for some reason. (DIE HARD is a great movie, but just because it’s set at Christmas doesn’t make it a Christmas movie.)
Every year we try to add a new one to our list.
Last year it was LAST CHRISTMAS
and the year before that, NATIVITY!
But we love watching our favorites, like LOVE, ACTUALLY and THE SURE THING and HOME ALONE and WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING and WHITE CHRISTMAS and ELF over and over.
We assume you love watching movies over and over, too, but if you don’t, we hope you can find a few things you haven’t seen on the list.
Either way, here goes:
THE WILLISES’ MASTER LIST OF CHRISTMAS MOVIES
THE NEW STUFF (sort of):
LOVE, ACTUALLY
ABOUT A BOY
HOME ALONE
WHILE YOU WERE SLEEPING
ELF
LAST CHRISTMAS
A CHRISTMAS STORY
BRIDGET JONES’S DIARY
THE SURE THING
THE SANTA CLAUSE
THE SANTA CLAUSE 2 (a sequel that’s actually pretty good)
YOU’VE GOT MAIL
NATIVITY! (with Martin Freeman)
NATIVITY 2: DANGER IN THE MANGER (with David Tennant)
THE HOUSE WITHOUT A CHRISTMAS TREE
THE HOMECOMING (the pilot for the Waltons)
MIXED NUTS (with Steve Martin and Rita Wilson)
THE CLASSICS:
MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET (the black-and-white version with Edmund Gwynn, Natalie Wood, and Maureen O’Hara ONLY!!!–no other versions!)
THE BISHOP’S WIFE
THE MIRACLE OF MORGAN’S CREEK
WHITE CHRISTMAS
THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (with Jimmy Stewart)
REMEMBER THE NIGHT (with Barbara Stanwyck and Fred MacMurray)
CHRISTMAS IN CONNECTICUT (with Barbara Stanwyck)
GOING MY WAY (with Bing Crosby)
MEET ME IN ST. LOUIS
IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE
THE LEMON DROP KID
IT HAPPENED ON FIFTH AVENUE
THE DICKENS’ A CHRISTMAS CAROLS:
A CHRISTMAS CAROL (with Alistair Simm)
THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS
THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
MR. MAGOO’S CHRISTMAS CAROL
SCROOGED
THE LITTLE WOMENS:
LITTLE WOMEN (with Katherine Hepburn)
LITTLE WOMEN (with June Allyson and Peter Lawford)
LITTLE WOMEN (with Winona Ryder–OUR FAVORITE!!)
THE PETER PANS:
PETER PAN (the made-for-TVmusical with Mary Martin ONLY!)
HOOK
FINDING NEVERLAND
AND FOR NEW YEAR’S EVE (though they can be watched at Christmas, too):
BACHELOR MOTHER (with Ginger Rogers and David Niven)
WHEN HARRY MET SALLY
LAST HOLIDAY (with Queen Latifah)
THE APARTMENT ( with Jack Lemmon and Shirley Maclaine)
OCEAN’S ELEVEN (the original with Frank Sinatra and Dean Martin)
NEW YEAR’S EVE
A LONG WAY DOWN
Oh, and they made a TV movie of one of my short stories, “Just Like the Ones We Used to Know.” It’s called SNOW WONDER, and I think it’s available on YouTube. It’s okay, though they took out all the science fiction parts. but it’s got Mary Tyler Moore in it.
As you can see, this is a lot more than 25 movies, so we sometimes have to skip a few–or watch two a day, but we always watch MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET on Christmas Day and then turn the TV to Turner Classic Movies or whatever channel is running A CHRISTMAS STORY all day long.
Have a merry Christmas
and stay safe and well.
The vaccine’s on its way
and so is Santa!
Connie Willis