Holiday movies — Page 2

"Scrooge" with Finney is my all-time favorite holiday movie. Ever since I saw it in the movie theatre with my father on Christmas Eve when I was eight years old.

It's still #1. The rest are in no particular order:

Movies:
Scrooge
White Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
Holiday Inn
Miracle on 34th Street
The Lemon Drop Kid
Father Frost (a Russian bad musical!)
Fanny & Alexander (the first hour of this movie has the best Christmas scenes I've ever seen in a film)
A Christmas Carol (Sim)
The Nightmare Before Christmas


TV specials:
Amahl and the Night Visitors
The Homecoming (TV movie with Patricia Neal that became "The Waltons")
Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
Bing Crosby Christmas Specials (a best-of DVD)
Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Mr. Hanky's Christmas Classics
The Little Drummer Boy
How the Grinch Stole Christmas
Santa Claus Is Coming To Town
Frosty the Snowman


Halloween movies:

Mad Monster Party
Munster, Go Home
Halloween
Lady In White
The Exorcist
The Omen
The Adventures of Ichabod & Mr. Toad
Rosemary's Baby
The Haunting
The Others
The Witches
Bram Stoker's Dracula
Bride of Frankenstein
It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown (TV)
The Paul Lynde Halloween Special (TV)

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Great lists Besty, though I cant stand Frosty for some reason.

I'd add Nestor, The Long Eared Donkey...it's a tearjerker.

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Christmas movies:

It's A Wonderful Life
A Christmas Story
The Bishop's Wife (Cary Grant version)
Scrooged


Thanksgiving:
Soul Food

A Christmas Story
Love Actually
White Christmas

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Strictly speaking, it's not a holiday movie, but I would add the Winona Ryder/Susan Sarandon version of Little Women to the list.

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We'll need to do a "Love Actually" love thread in a month or so.

"Little Women" is one of my "cheating" Christmas movies, which I can watch in early November if I need a little Christmas spirit sneak-peak.