Classic Holiday Films: 10 Great Christmas Movies To Watch Over The Holiday Season

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1 ) It's A Wonderful Life

Classic Holiday Films: 10 Great Christmas Movies To Watch Over The Holiday Season

Synopsis

George Bailey feels overwhelmed by problems in his life ,and wishes he had never been born. Clarence,a guardian angel is assigned to convince the desperate George not to end his life. He makes George's wish come true by showing him what things would have been like if he had never been born. George starts to realize how many lives he has changed and impacted, and how they would be so different if he had never been born

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Strange, isn't it? Each man’s life touches so many other lives. When he isn't around he leaves an awful hole, doesn't he?

2 ) Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Classic Holiday Films: 10 Great Christmas Movies To Watch Over The Holiday Season

Synopsis

The McAllister family are going to Florida for their Christmas vacation ,but at the airport Kevin loses his family and accidentally boards a plane heading for New York City. There, he encounters the notorious Wet Bandits - Harry and Marv, who have escaped from prison.They are plotting a huge toy shop heist,so Kevin sets up a plan to put them behind bars once again.

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It's Christmas Eve. Good deeds count extra tonight. Think of an important thing you can do for others, and go do it. Just follow the star in your heart.

3 ) Miracle On 34th Street - 1994 version

Classic Holiday Films: 10 Great Christmas Movies To Watch Over The Holiday Season

Synopsis

Kris Kringle is a department store Santa,and he insists that he's the real Santa Claus. He is institutionalized as insane ,and goes to court to try and prove he is the real Santa. A young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the real thing.

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Faith is believing in things when common sense tells you not to

4 ) The Polar Express

Classic Holiday Films: 10 Great Christmas Movies To Watch Over The Holiday Season

Synopsis

On Christmas Eve,a young boy learns about bravery,friendship, and the spirit of Christmas after boarding a magical train - The Polar Express . It takes him to the magical world of Santa Claus's home in the North Pole

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Seeing is believing, but sometimes the most real things in the world are the things we can't see

5 ) National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

Classic Holiday Films: 10 Great Christmas Movies To Watch Over The Holiday Season

Synopsis

Clark Griswold promises his family the best Christmas ever,but instead of the best Christmas ever, he turns Christmas into a huge disaster for everyone

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Clark, I think that it would be best for everybody if they all just went home...before things get any worse

6 ) Scrooge

Classic Holiday Films: 10 Great Christmas Movies To Watch Over The Holiday Season

Synopsis

Ebenezer Scrooge,is an old bitter miser who is given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by three ghosts on Christmas Eve . The ghosts represent Scrooge's past ,present and future

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There is never enough time to do or say all the things that we would wish. The thing is to try to do as much as you can in the time that you have. Remember Scrooge, time is short, and suddenly, you're not there any more

7 ) Christmas with the Kranks

Classic Holiday Films: 10 Great Christmas Movies To Watch Over The Holiday Season

Synopsis

Luther Krank decides to skip Christmas and go on a vacation with his wife instead ,because he is fed up of Christmas being too commercialized . Their daughter decides at the last minute to come home,so the Kranks have to scramble to create Christmas at home to celebrate the holiday at the last minute

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You're skipping Christmas?! Isn't that against the law?

8.) While You Were Sleeping

Classic Holiday Films: 10 Great Christmas Movies To Watch Over The Holiday Season

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Lucy, a lonely train ticket seller falls in love with Peter, a commuter who passes her by every day. One Christmas day, the stranger falls onto the rails and is saved by Lucy . He falls into a coma ,and Lucy visits him everyday in hospital . Peter's family assume she is his fiancée,but Jack ,Peters brother ,has doubts about her . But what will happen when Peter wakes ?

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Have you ever fallen in love with someone you haven't even talked to? Have you ever been so alone you spend the night confusing a man in a coma?

9) The Family Man

Classic Holiday Films: 10 Great Christmas Movies To Watch Over The Holiday Season

Synopsis

On Christmas Eve, a fast-lane investment broker, is offered the opportunity to see how the other half lives, when wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife. Over the next few weeks, he gets a glimpse of what his life would have been like if he'd made different choices in his life

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A little flirtation is harmless but you're dealing with fire here. The fidelity bank and trust is a tough creditor. You make a deposit somewhere else, they close your account - FOREVER.

10 ) The Holiday

Classic Holiday Films: 10 Great Christmas Movies To Watch Over The Holiday Season

Synopsis

Two unhappy women living 6000 miles apart , meet online at a home exchange website . They impulsively switch homes for the holiday. Iris moves into Amanda's L.A. house in sunny California ,and Amanda moves into Iris' snow covered English countryside cottage. Unexpectedly , they both find love and happiness

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Iris, in the movies, we have leading ladies and we have the best friend. You, I can tell, are a leading lady, but for some reason, you're behaving like the best friend.

Classic Holiday Films: 10 Great Christmas Movies To Watch Over The Holiday Season
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