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Holiday Movies
Browse for additional movies in the catalog under Christmas films.
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The Absolutely Ultimate Christmas DVD (DVD)
Includes the musical comedy The inspector general, starring Danny Kaye, over 100 Christmas songs (20 with karaoke on-screen lyrics), and the cartoons Enchanted square, Jack Frost, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, Snow foolin', and Toys will be toys. | |
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A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott) DVD & VHS
Old Ebenezer Scrooge, the meanest miser in London, is visited one Christmas eve by three spirits who change his life forever. George C. Scott stars as Scrooge in this critically acclaimed version of Charles Dickens' holiday classic. | |
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Christmas in Connecticut (1945)
A famous food writer (Barbara Stanwyck) lies about living on a farm, raising her children and being a good cook. In reality she is an unmarried New Yorker who can't boil an egg. When her editor says she will spend Christmas with a heroic sailor, her job is on the line. |
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A Christmas Story (1983)
A young boy must convince his parents that a toy rifle is the only Christmas gift that will make Christmas worthwhile. Not only do his parents face what many other parents do during that time of the year, but their actions fit in with the All-American Christmas. Based on the novel "In God We Trust, All Others Pay Cash" by Jean Shepherd. |
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Christmas with the Kranks (2004) DVD
When only child, Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora decide to book an cruise and skip Christmas altogether. Their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fiancée, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever. | |
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Die Hard (1988)
On Christmas Eve a team of terrorists has seized a building in L.A. and taken hostages. A New York cop, in town to spend the holidays with his estranged wife, is the only hope for the people held by the cunning and savage criminals. |
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Hercule Poirot's Christmas (1995) DVD
Poirot plans a quiet Christmas in London until learning that it also will be a cold one since his flat has a broken boiler. When a wealthy old man calls for the detective's help, Poirot opts for a working holiday at the man's well-heated country estate. He has a murder to solve, family politics to unravel and shocking revelations from the past to sort out. He turns to Chief Inspector Japp for help. | |
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(Irving Berlin's) Holiday Inn (1942)
A song-and-dance man leaves show business and opens up a Connecticut inn with his former partner. Stars Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire. |
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Home for the Holidays (1995)
Claudia Larson is a divorced single mom who just lost her job and now has to fly home for the traditional family Thanksgiving in Baltimore. From the plane, she calls for reinforcements--and her brother Tommy makes it down from Boston with a little surprise: a handsome friend named Leo. Between dropping the turkey in their sister's lap and a few fist fights on the front lawn, Claudia and Tommy recapture their childhood and Claudia and Leo explore the sweet possibility of romance. |
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It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
George Bailey (James Stewart), a desperate and suicidal man, is visited by a guardian angel who shows him how important he has been to those around him in his life. |
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Love Actually (2003)
It's all about love and holiday cheer in London. The Prime Minister is smitten with his caterer; a widower's young son nurses the ultimate schoolboy crush; a writer falls for his Portuguese housekeeper; a devoted wife and mother copes with her potentially unfaithful husband; and a lovelorn American is desperately attracted to a colleague. | |
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Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
In this Oscar-winning classic, a Macy's Department Store Santa who insists his name is Kris Kringle teaches everyone a lesson in love, faith and the value of imagination. |
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National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation (1989)
It's Christmastime at the Griswolds. There are 25,000 lights on the house, an exploding turkey on the table, and a dozen or so guests. |
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Tim Burton's The Nightmare before Christmas (1993)
The Pumpkin King tries to bring the magic of Christmas Town to Halloween Town, but some things are not meant to be so it's up to Sally, the rag doll, to make things right. |
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Scrooge (1970)
The classic Charles Dickens tale of the cold hearted miser (Albert Finney) who is reformed by the Ghosts of Christmas. |
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Scrooged
Modern version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray portraying a nasty, uncaring, unforgiving TV network president. On Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts who show him the error of his ways. |
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Surviving Christmas (2004?)
Drew Latham is a wealthy executive leading an empty, shallow life. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, Drew wants to revisit his old childhood home and possibly relive some of his old holiday memories. But when he arrives, he finds that the house where he was raised is now no longer the home he grew up in. Owned by another family, Drew offers a nice financial reward that has the family all a buzz. But is Drew's generous cash offer only the beginning of an annoying visitor or will everyone be able to find the true holiday spirit? | |
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Irving Berlin's White Christmas
Two song-and-dance men (Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye) team up in show business after the war. Joining forces with a sister act (Rosemary Clooney and Vera-Ellen), they trek to Vermont for a white Christmas. The real adventure starts when Crosby and Kaye discover that the inn is run by their old army general who's now in financial trouble. |
