Filled with awesome music, great acting and real dancing this movie is a classic during the holidays. I am into all the sentimental schmaltz during this time of year and this movie does it for me. Bing Crosby, Rosemary Clooney, Danny Kaye and Vera Ellen are simply divine and give us some of the greatest song and dance numbers in cinema history.
If they were to do a “updated” version I could see Harry Connick, Jr., Neil Patrick Harris, Lea Michelle and Juliane Hough cast to take on those iconic roles of Wallace and Davis and The Haynes Sisters.
Queen Latifah and LL Cool J light up the screen in this movie about a misdiagnosed woman who seeks to live out her “last” days in Europe at a posh hotel, living it up. The supporting cast of Gerard Depardieu, Timothy Hutton, Alicia Witt and Giancarlo Esposito make this movie a great holiday flick.
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Holiday movies are like friends you see once a year. Of course you don’t have to see them just during the holidays but they are special that way. There are great characters and places that make the season more colorful.
Our favorites are
Christmas Vacation
Elf
Last Holiday
The Holiday
White Christmas
Meet Me In St. Louis
Serendipity
Fallen Angel
Disney’s The Christmas Carol
A Christmas Story
The Nativity Story
A Charlie Brown Christmas
The Muppet Christmas Carol
Hallmark Christmas Movies
It’s A Wonderful Life
The Polar Express
Love Actually
The Santa Clause Movies
And there are more. Without these movies its just not the same.
This movie is always the first Christmas movie we watch each year. It isn’t the holidays without this flick. Chevy Chase is epic in this classic family movie. Johnny Galecki from “The Big Bang Theory” plays Rusty in this seasonal favorite.
This is a great flick that shows us what goes on inside us all and in particular Riley a young girl who has her life turned upside down due to a family move. Amy Poehler, Bill Hader, Mindy Kaling, Lewis Black and Phyllis Smith provide voices for this Pixar presentation.
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