alisoncooks Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 ...even though they aren't really Christmas movies. I mean, of course "Elf" and "It's a Wonderful Life" are Christmas movies. But how about "Love Actually?" I mean, it partially takes place during Christmas and there's the school play scene... (but there's also the p0rn shoot scene, so, um.....Merry Christmas...?) What random movies does your family traditionally watch at Christmas? For me: "Little Women" totally feels Christmas-y So does "A Little Princess" "While You Were Sleeping" - this is a Christmas movie, right? 6 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Stacia Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Die Hard 15 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zebra Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 I keep "The Holiday" "The Family Man" and "The Family Stone" with the other Christmas-y movies. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Carol in Cal. Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Red Boots For Christmas Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted December 3, 2017 Author Share Posted December 3, 2017 I keep "The Holiday" "The Family Man" and "The Family Stone" with the other Christmas-y movies. Oh yeah, I love The Holiday. Definitely a Christmas movie for me! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted December 3, 2017 Author Share Posted December 3, 2017 Couple more that I thought of: Serendipity (John Cusack) The Last Holiday (Queen Latifah and LL Cool J) -- this one is great, LOL. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lecka Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Little Women for me, too. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
happi duck Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Desk Set (Hepburn/Tracey) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
solascriptura Posted December 3, 2017 Share Posted December 3, 2017 Not exactly like the others mentioned, but my kids love Home Alone. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted December 4, 2017 Author Share Posted December 4, 2017 Not exactly like the others mentioned, but my kids love Home Alone. My kids love Home Alone, too, but it's definitely in the Undoubtedly Christmas category for me. (We like # 1 and 2 -- and the soundtrack for #1 is great!) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Love Actually and Die Hard are definitely Christmas movies!!! 5 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted December 4, 2017 Author Share Posted December 4, 2017 You’ve Got Mail, my favorite movie. I’ll watch it year round, though. Me too. The original (with Jimmy Stewert) is much more Christmas-y. I love that one, also. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Guest Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Couple more that I thought of: Serendipity (John Cusack) The Last Holiday (Queen Latifah and LL Cool J) -- this one is great, LOL. I loved Last Holiday. I watched it once at the beach house (I think, through a Redbox rental). I would love to watch it again, though. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gaillardia Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 This needs to be a new tradition... ...for many years I watched, with or without the kids, Rudolph, Mr. Krueger, and a couple of others and I just found out in the last 2 or 3 years that my dh hated to hear or watch any of them!! Gasp! How dare he! So, I don't know what else we'll be watching this season. College Road Trip but I can only watch that so many times. lol Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MysteryJen Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 The Ref Puts me in the Christmas spirit every time. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
lmrich Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 So not a Christmas movie... but we watched Tootsie over every Christmas break just because it made us laugh so hard. While You Were Sleeping - for sure! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted December 4, 2017 Author Share Posted December 4, 2017 So not a Christmas movie... but we watched Tootsie over every Christmas break just because it made us laugh so hard. While You Were Sleeping - for sure! I grew up watching Tootsie. ("I said good day!!") LOL. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted December 4, 2017 Author Share Posted December 4, 2017 Then you have Gremlins... (That story of the man getting stuck in the chimney scarred me as a kid...) And Trading Places (Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd). :D Pretty sure there's a Santa suit in there... Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cosmos Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 I work at a library and someone came in the other day wanting some of her favorite holiday movies. Which ones? Trading Places and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. I never thought of those as holiday movies myself! We're pretty traditional here, but we do include the Die Hard movies as Christmas movies. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 (edited) Dp Edited December 4, 2017 by Annie G Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Annie G Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 I work at a library and someone came in the other day wanting some of her favorite holiday movies. Which ones? Trading Places and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. I never thought of those as holiday movies myself! We're pretty traditional here, but we do include the Die Hard movies as Christmas movies. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is totally a Thanksgiving movie. We watch it every year the evening before Thanksgiving. 3 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Liza Q Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 About a Boy Bridget Jones' Diary 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ScoutTN Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 We always watch The Sound of Music around Christmas. My kids also like a LOTR marathon over the break. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted December 4, 2017 Author Share Posted December 4, 2017 Harry Potter always gets a lot of air time during the holidays. And yes! to "Bridget Jones' Diary." How'd I forget that!? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Joyofsixreboot Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 I work at a library and someone came in the other day wanting some of her favorite holiday movies. Which ones? Trading Places and Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. I never thought of those as holiday movies myself! We're pretty traditional here, but we do include the Die Hard movies as Christmas movies. Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a Thanksgiving movie! It is our family tradition. We love that movie. Lethal Weapon 1 happens at Christmas. It's Christmassy like Die Hard. Sent from my SAMSUNG-SM-G900A using Tapatalk Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Selkie Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 One of our family traditions is watching Napoleon Dynamite on Christmas Eve day. We all love that movie and look forward to it every year. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
J-rap Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 I was going to say Little Women too. That's always the first Christmas movie we watch, because it's not really a Christmas movie, but has lots of Christmas scenes in it. We've come to think of it as an early Christmas movie. :) 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Terabith Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Jurassic Park. Every Christmas Eve Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
underthebridge Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Meet Me in St Louis might be my favorite one that screams Christmas. Edward Scissorhands and Mean Girls are less obvious! 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
LarlaB Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 The Bishop's Wife (or remake The Preachers Wife w/ Whitney Houston) takes place at Christmas You've Got Mail Holiday Inn is a lesser known movie (Fred Astaire & Bing Crosby) that is a close cousin White Christmas. Obviously Christmas, but unknown among my friends. :) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caia Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Bells of St. Mary’s 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JustEm Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Dh and I just finished watching our favorite Christmas movie, Stepbrothers. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
JaneEyre Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Narnia. Always winter, but never Christmas. 4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
SKL Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Meet Me In St. Louis Bells of St. Mary's 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Sarah CB Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 I keep "The Holiday" "The Family Man" and "The Family Stone" with the other Christmas-y movies. The Family Man is one of our favourite Christmas movies - we watch it every year. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Pegs Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Hogfather. Terry Pratchett adaptation. 2 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Angie in VA Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 (edited) Meet Me in St. Louis It's A Wonderful Life Edited December 4, 2017 by Angie in VA Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Zuzu822 Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 The Bishop's Wife (or remake The Preachers Wife w/ Whitney Houston) takes place at Christmas You've Got Mail Holiday Inn is a lesser known movie (Fred Astaire & Bing Crosby) that is a close cousin White Christmas. Obviously Christmas, but unknown among my friends. :) Holiday Inn is definitely a Christmas movie! It's the one that gave "White Christmas" to the world! I hate the blackface, but sometimes I still watch it. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Cinder Posted December 4, 2017 Share Posted December 4, 2017 Star Wars original trilogy. We start watching on Christmas Eve when decorating cookies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Lizzie in Ma Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Die Hard :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Monica_in_Switzerland Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 I always watch Little Women while wrapping presents on Christmas Eve. "My sisters and I remember that winter as the coldest of our childhood..." 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Caroline Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 The Sound of Music is one I associate with Christmas. I think that’s because it is always on TV in December and when I was pretty young (maybe 5?) my older sister and I got tickets to see a live performance for Christmas. Star Wars because the whole original trilogy is on the DVR at the beach condo where we spend Christmas. Same with the Harry Potter movies. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mom@shiloh Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Last year we watched "Christmas with the Kranks" for the first time and we've added that to our list of Christmas movies along with many of the typical ones that others have already listed. Also, the Santa Clause. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AMJ Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 Nightmare Before Christmas. This actually IS a Christmas movie, though many people treat it as a Halloween movie. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
alisoncooks Posted December 5, 2017 Author Share Posted December 5, 2017 Nightmare Before Christmas. This actually IS a Christmas movie, though many people treat it as a Halloween movie. You're right. I introduced it to my kids last year and my youngest fell in love with it. :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Tina Posted December 5, 2017 Share Posted December 5, 2017 These go along with White Christmas and Meet Me in St Louis. I watch a bunch of oldies: It Happened on Fifth Avenue (dh will actually watch this one every year with us) The Bishop's Wife (Cary Grant version here) Christmas in Connecticut (Barbara Stanwyck) Remember the Night (Barbara Stanwyck) Christmas in July A Christmas Wish The Family Man (Nicholas Cage) Tenth Avenue Angel (Margaret OBrien) Others I watch although they aren't really Christmas: Pocketful of Miracles (Bette Davis) Boys Town (Spencer Tracy) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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