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Your Five Favorite Christmas Movies/Cartoons
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After reading Gina's post, I thought that I would start another one about favorite Christmas Movies and Cartoons. What are your top FIVE (5) favorites? Mine are : 1)The Little Drummer Boy 2)How The Grinch Stole Christmas 3)The Polar Express 4)A Charlie Brown Christmas 5)Rudolph The Red Nosed Reindeer Don Cardi 
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Re: Your Five Favorite Christmas Movies/Cartoons
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My list is actually two lists: 1. Scrooge (AKA A Christmas Carol) 1951 - Alastair Sim 2. Scrooge 1935 - Sir Seymour Hicks 3. A Christmas Carol (animated) 1971 - Alastair Sim 4. A Christmas Carol 1938 - Reginald Owen 5. A Christmas Carol 1984 - George C. Scott BTW, if you are a fan of different adaptations of this classic story, then you really must check out this link: Charles Dickens Christmas Carol & Scrooge CED Page My other Top Five list: 1. A Charlie Brown Christmas2. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated) 3. Miracle on 34th Street4. It's a Wonderful Life5. Bedtime for Sniffles (animated) I must confess that I haven't yet seen some of the newer films, but I'm sure I will at some point this season - or next. But these are the ones which came to mind the quickest. Signor V.
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Re: Your Five Favorite Christmas Movies/Cartoons
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A Christmas Story How the Grinch Stole Christmas (animated) How the Grinch Stole Christmas (movie) Home Alone 1 Home Alone 2 (No order) These are the top 5 that I like most, but more so that I feel I must see during the holidays. They're movies that I've watched each year since the first year I saw them, so they're traditional now. I also have to drink eggnog while watching the Grinch cartoon.  I've seen and enjoyed It's A Wonderful Life, but just not enough times. Hmm...thinking of it that way, I might be due for another viewing.  I was looking at some web sites to see if I was perhaps forgetting any that I like, and I came across this list: 100 Greatest Christmas Shows I'm sure there's plenty room for argument as to each movie's placement, though... That site helped me remember some other favorites... - National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation - Ernest Saves Christmas (I loved Ernest...I want to see this again!) - The Santa Clause
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Re: Your Five Favorite Christmas Movies/Cartoons
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In no particular order: Miracle on 34th Street National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation A Christmas Story It's A Wonderfu Life A Christmas Carol (I think it's the one with Alister Slim.  They use to show it every year when I was a kid, but I haven't seen it in years) TIS
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Re: Your Five Favorite Christmas Movies/Cartoons
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i like the movie where richard attenborough (the guy in jurassic pasrk too) is Santa Claus and there was a court case in the end for him to prove he was real
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Re: Your Five Favorite Christmas Movies/Cartoons
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i like the movie where richard attenborough (the guy in jurassic pasrk too) is Santa Claus and there was a court case in the end for him to prove he was real
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Re: Your Five Favorite Christmas Movies/Cartoons
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i like the movie where richard attenborough (the guy in jurassic pasrk too) is Santa Claus and there was a court case in the end for him to prove he was real That movie is the remake to Miracle on 34th Street. I've seen and have enjoyed the original for years but haven't watched this remake. The original was made in 1947 and it starred Natalie Wood ( Rebel without a Cause) as Susan and Edmund Gwenn ( Foreign Correspondent) as Kris Kringle. The remake was made in 1993.
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Re: Your Five Favorite Christmas Movies/Cartoons
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A couple of Chrismas specials that they don't broadcast anymore;
1. The Homecoming. This was a movie involving the Waltons before the series even started. Different actors were used in some of the adult roles, but the story centered on news that there was a train derailment, in which there were fatalities, and the uncertainty of the father's fate. The movie was a little long, took place in the depression, but I enjoyed it.
2. The House without a Christmas Tree. This starred Jason Robards, and took place in the 30's and 40's. It was about a cantankerous widower, who lived with his mother and grade school daughter, and continued to grieve the death of his wife to the extent that he wouldn't allow a Christmas tree in his house, much to the disappointment of his little girl.
Come to think of it, these shows were as depressing as hell, but I liked them.
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Re: Your Five Favorite Christmas Movies/Cartoons
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2. The House without a Christmas Tree. This starred Jason Robards, and took place in the 30's and 40's. It was about a cantankerous widower, who lived with his mother and grade school daughter, and continued to grieve the death of his wife to the extent that he wouldn't allow a Christmas tree in his house, much to the disappointment of his little girl.
Come to think of it, these shows were as depressing as hell, but I liked them. Man, talk about a blast from the past. As soon as I read the title, "The house without a Christmas tree" I immediately remembered it starred Jason Robarts. I have no recollection of the acutall plot, but just remember a young girl wanting a Christmas tree and he wouldn't get one. I can't believe they actualy wrote a whole tv special around that theme. That could describe 80% of my family. It describes me come to think of it..hahaha. I thought I was the only one who remembered it. Everyone else I ask about it looks at me like I grew a 2nd head.
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Re: Your Five Favorite Christmas Movies/Cartoons
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Man, talk about a blast from the past. As soon as I read the title, "The house without a Christmas tree" I immediately remembered it starred Jason Robarts. I have no recollection of the acutall plot, but just remember a young girl wanting a Christmas tree and he wouldn't get one. I can't believe they actualy wrote a whole tv special around that theme. That could describe 80% of my family. It describes me come to think of it..hahaha. I thought I was the only one who remembered it. Everyone else I ask about it looks at me like I grew a 2nd head.
My recollection isn't the clearest, but I remember that it was filmed on video tape. The girl got into a fight at school with a classmate, who had made fun of her grandmother for pulling a wagon to the grocery store, and she performed with others in a school play, in which she sang O Christmas Tree while staring at her father. At the end, the father's heart melted (Grandma helped do this somehow), he brought in a tree on Christmas Eve, and took his daughter to a room where he brought out a special ornament that had belonged to his late wife. A bittersweet moment.
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