So what are your favorite Christmas movies? One of my more recent favorites is "The Family Man" starring Nicholas Cage, Tea Leoni and Don Cheadle.It is very much in the tradition of "It's A Wonderful Life" and "A Christmas Carol" but has an edge to it, as you would expect from any movie starring Nic Cage.
It tells the story of a rich and single mergers and aquisitions banker (Nicholas Cage), who, on Christmas Eve, is given a chance, by his guardian angel (Don Cheadle), to get a taste of what his life would have been like, had he chosen to marry his true love (Tea Leoni), have children and live a "normal life", rather than pursue his powerhouse career. If you have never seen this, or haven't watched it in a while, you owe it to yourself to experience (again) this magical movie.
What are your favorite Christmas movies?
- Doral
It's a Wonderful Life is mine. Plus the black and white Miracle on 34th Street. Good actors in that one!
ReplyDelete"A Christmas Story" (1983) -- the charm of Ralphie, the "don't shoot your eye out" quote about getting a bb-gun, one of the boys getting his tongue stuck on the wire fence -- one of my favorite shows about Christmas. I always thought the movie was Canadian, for it feels so rural, but no -- an American made film.
ReplyDeleteOf all of the movies about Scrooge, I like the old black and white one -- feels like a mix between the spectres seen at Halloween and the fear that if we don't give at Christmas we will become like Scrooge. Nice.
Arta
Hello,
ReplyDeleteI have had a change of mind about my all-time favorite movie about Christmas. The Jarvis kids did the pagent at home and Catherine videoed it. Rebecca Rose as the sheep, her calling out "Baa, baaa", the sheep-skin draped over her back, the one her mother laid on for 6 months while she was expecting the twins. Yup. I love the sound track and the props in that movie.
Arta