Christmas Favorites: Movies

One week until Christmas

I’ve said it once before, but I have to say it again…I cannot believe how fast this month has flown by! It really has gone by too fast.

I am a hopeless Christmas sap. Christmas is my favorite time of the year and I love everything about it – the spirit in the air, the music, the movies…

I’ll admit, I’m one who began watching Christmas movies mid-November when the Hallmark Channel began playing them. A typical afternoon at my house consists of a room a room aglow with Christmas lights and a Christmas movie playing on the television. I’m going to be sad when this time of the year is over.

Throughout the years, I’ve collected a few movie favorites, and I’m going to share them with you today. I’ve watched these movies from the comfort of my couch, while doing housework, while putting up the Christmas decorations, and even while running on the treadmill.

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Mickey’s Christmas Carol

It's the same old classic Charles Dickens story with an all star Disney cast. Uncle Scrooge McDuck is appropriately enough Scrooge and is visited by his dead partner and 3 spirits one night to remember the joys of Christmas.

Mickey’s Christmas Carol is my most-favorite Christmas special!

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The Holiday

In London, Iris Simpkins writes a wedding column in a newspaper and nurtures an unrequited love for her colleague Jasper Bloom. Near Christmas, she is informed that Jasper is engaged to marry another colleague, and her life turns upside down. In Los Angeles, the movie-trailers maker Amanda Woods has just split with her unfaithful boyfriend Ethan and wants to forget him. Through a house exchange website, Amanda impulsively swaps her mansion for Iris' cottage in Surrey for the holidays. While in Surrey, Amanda meets Iris' brother and book editor Graham and they fall in love with each other. Meanwhile, Iris meets her new next door neighbor the ninety year old screenplay writer Arthur, who helps her retrieve her self-esteem, and the film composer Miles, with whom she falls in love.

I love love love this movie! I watch it every year while decorating my house for Christmas, this year was no exception!

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If you’ve watched Hallmark Channel Movies in the past, you know that some have an element of cheesiness to them. I’ve watched several Hallmark Channel movies this year and I can vouch for the following….while a small, slight, miniscule element of cheesiness exists, these are movies I could watch over and over again!

The remaining movies are a part of Hallmark Channel’s Countdown to Christmas.

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Snow Bride

When a reporter encounters the eldest son of a famous political family at a mountain retreat, she winds up pretending to be his girlfriend over Christmas so he can save face with his family. Should she secretly expose newsworthy scoops about the famous family in order to save her job, or trust that she's falling in love for real? Stars Patricia Richardson and Katrina Law.

I think this one is my favorite “new”  movie for 2013 (as in, brand new in 2013).

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A Very Merry Mix-up

Alice thinks she is heading to her fiancé’s hometown to meet his parents and spend the holidays, but a mix up at the airport lands her at the wrong home. However this “wrong” family is just her sort of people and she quickly forms a bond with them, especially with the handsome son, Matt. When she visits the "right" house, will her destiny take a detour? Stars Alicia Witt.

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Let It Snow

A resort executive is sent to a newly purchased lodge in Maine with instructions to turn it in to an ultra-modern resort, and finds a charming, successful lodge loaded with holiday spirit. Will she stick with her boss’s plans to tear everything down or find a way to save what she has come to love? Stars Candace Cameron-Bure and Alan Thicke.

I love that Candace Cameron-Bure is in this movie…she does a great job (and of course, I love her)!

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Catch A Christmas Star

Just as her latest Christmas album is being released, famous singer Nikki Crandon is reunited with her high school sweetheart and starts to believe they may be able to rekindle what they had in the past. However, problems arise in the form of pressure from her record company, an old boyfriend and the paparazzi. Will Nikki be able to overcome the many obstacles to finally be with the only man she has ever loved? Stars Shannon Elizabeth.

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Debbie Macomber’s Mrs. Miracle

Losing a spouse is always hard, and for Seth Webster (James Van Der Beek), playing single dad to two rambunctious six-year-olds doesn’t make it any easier. With the holidays approaching, finding a housekeeper has proven to be near-impossible, until Mrs. Emily Merkle (Doris Roberts) shows up at the Websters’ door, ready to turn their lives around. No sooner has “Mrs. Miracle,” as Seth’s boys call her, straightened up the house, than Seth meets Reba Maxwell (Erin Karpluk), best friend to the Webster kids’ first-grade teacher. After just one date, Seth and Reba find they have a lot in common. Since the death of his music-loving wife, Seth has been unable to play a single chord on the piano, and, in the name of her career, Reba, once an avid actress, has avoided the theater. With a Christmas pageant to prepare for and a fresh romance on the horizon, Mrs. Miracle definitely has her work cut out for her and proves to be more than just a normal nanny.

Hands down my favorite Hallmark Christmas movie of all time! I’ll admit, I was originally drawn to this movie because of James Van Der Beek, but I really love this movie!

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What do you think? Are you a hopeless Christmas romantic? What’s your favorite Christmas movies to watch during the holiday season?

P.S. – I left out Christmas Vacation on purpose – it’s a Christmas tradition for my family which will be shared in an upcoming post.