#50. Four Christmases (2008)
Directed By: Seth Gordon
Written By: Matt Allen, Caleb Wilson, Jon Lucas & Scott Moore (screenplay), Matt Allen & Caleb Wilson (story)
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Reese Witherspoon, Robert Duvall, Mary Steenburgen, Jon Voight, Jon Favreau, Tim McGraw, Katy Mixon, Kristin Chenoweth, Dwight Yoakam, Sissy Spacek, Carol Kane
IMDB Rating: 5.6
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 52%
Brad and Kate have been together three years, in love, having fun, doing all sorts of things together with no intention of marriage or children. Christmas morning, they're on their way to Fiji, having told their two sets of divorced parents that they're off to do charity work. Through a fluke, they have no choice but to visit each of their four idiosyncratic parents. As the day progresses, Brad and Kate remember growing up, each learns more about the other, and Kate realizes that her life may not be as good as it could be. Do they know each other well enough to weather the storms families bring?
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#49. Fred Claus (2007)
Directed By: David Dobkin
Written By: Dan Fogelman (screenplay), Jessie Nelson & Dan Fogelman (story)
Starring: Vince Vaughn, Paul Giamatti, John Michael Higgins, Miranda Richardson, Rachel Weisz, Kathy Bates, Trevor Peacock
IMDB Rating: 5.6
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 49%
During childhood, Fred Claus suffered his younger brother Nick's saintliness. Jump ahead: Fred is a fast-talking, genial but self-centered guy in Chicago looking for $50,000 to open an off-track-betting shop. When one scam goes awry, he calls Nick at the North Pole for a loan: Nick will give him the money only if Fred comes up to help a few days with the Christmas rush. After his girlfriend dumps him, Fred heads north. Santa's facing an audit from an efficiency expert, and it's not pleasant. Fred's job is to review charts and determine who's naughty and who's nice. Is there any fraternal feeling left, can either learn from the other, and what about Santa getting fired?
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#48. Trapped in Paradise (1994)
Directed By: George Gallo
Written By: George Gallo
Starring: Nicolas Cage, Jon Lovitz, Dana Carvey, Mädchen Amick
IMDB Rating: 5.7
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 42%
Bill Firpo has managed to stay honest, but can't help but be dragged into things by his larcenous brothers, the clever Dave and the kleptomaniac Alvin. When the three find a bank so easy to rob that they can't resist, the only question is whether or not they can get out of town before the big snowstorm hits. While the three brothers run around town with their stolen loot, they are besieged with the kindness of the townsfolk that might just set them on the path of righteousness.
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#47. Prancer (1989)
Directed By: John D. Hancock
Written By: Greg Taylor
Starring: Sam Elliott, Rebecca Harrell, Cloris Leachman, Rutanya Alda, John Joseph Duda, Abe Vigoda, Michael Constantine, Ariana Richards, Mark Rolston
IMDB Rating: 5.7
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 53%
Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in town. She hides him in her barn and feeds him cookies, until she can return him to Santa. Her father finds him and decides to sell him to the butcher, not for venison chops, but as an advertising display.
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#46. A Christmas Carol (1997)
Directed By: Stan Phillips
Written By: Charles Dickens (short story "A Christmas Carol"), Jymn Magon (adaptation)
Starring: Tim Curry, Whoopi Goldberg, Michael York, Edward Asner, Frank Welker, Kath Soucie, Jodi Benson
IMDB Rating: 5.7
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 56%
An animated musical version of the Charles Dickens A Christmas Carol, remake with original music and stars of the day.
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#45. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
Directed By: Ron Howard
Written By: Dr. Seuss (book), Jeffrey Price & Peter S. Seaman (screenplay)
Starring: Jim Carrey, Jeffrey Tambor, Christine Baranski, Taylor Momsen, Molly Shannon, Josh Ryan Evans, Clint Howard, Bill Irwin
IMDB Rating: 5.7
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 57%
Based on the book by the famous Dr. Seuss. Inside a snowflake exists the magical land of Whoville. In Whoville, live the Who's, an almost mutated sort of munchkin like people. All the Who's love Christmas, yet just outside of their beloved Whoville lives the Grinch. The Grinch is a nasty creature that hates Christmas, and plots to steal it away from the Whos which he equally abhors. Yet a small child, Cindy Lou Who, decides to try befriend the Grinch.
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#44. Babes in Toyland (1961)
Directed By: Jack Donohue
Written By: Glen MacDonough (operetta), Ward Kimball, Joe Rinaldi (screenplay) & Lowell S. Hawley (screenplay), Anna Alice Chapin & libretto
Starring: Annette Funicello, Ray Bolger, Tommy Sands, Ed Wynn, Tommy Kirk
IMDB Rating: 6.0
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 63%
Tom the Piper's Son is about to marry Mary Quite Contrary. On the eve of their wedding, evil miser Barnaby hires two henchmen to drown Tom and steal Mary's sheep, cared for by Little Bo Peep, thus depriving Mary and the children she lives with of their livelihood, forcing her to marry Barnaby. The sheep are stolen, but Gonzorgo and Roderigo, Barnaby's henchmen, double-cross him by selling Tom to a band of gypsies instead, leaving Tom with the opportunity to escape and make his way with Mary, Bo-Peep, and other Mother Goose characters to Toyland.
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#43. Home Alone 2: Lost in New York (1992)
Directed By: Chris Columbus
Written By: John Hughes (characters), John Hughes
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, Daniel Stern, Catherine O'Hara, John Heard, Tim Curry, Brenda Fricker, Devin Ratray, Hillary Wolf, Eddie Bracken, Dana Ivey, Rob Schneider, Kieran Culkin, Gerry Bamman, Donald Trump
IMDB Rating: 6.0
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 62%
Once again, it is Christmas time, and the McCallister family is planning another vacation, only this time they are bound to vacate in Miami, Florida. Unfortunately, Kevin does not agree with the rest of his family about this upcoming vacation and once again he got himself into trouble again, regarding with a fight with his brother Buzz. But as he and his family arrived at the airport they could miss their flight, this is where the chaos which is Chicago/O'Hare airport causes Kevin to unknowingly separate from the rest of his family, so instead of Miami, he is going to New York (much to Kevin's dismay). But what Kevin will soon realize that he will not only be alone in a big city, having a luxury suite at the Plaza, and visiting some of New York's biggest stores and seeing some sites as well, he will also reunite with his rivals the "Wet Bandits" Harry Lime and Marv Merchants, who escaped from prison and to New York and are planning to rob a toy store named "Duncan's Toy Chest" where the owner E.F. Duncan is planning to use the money to donate it to the children's hospital. Kevin plans to defeat the wet bandits once and for all by using his uncle Rob's renovating townhouse and the equipment inside as traps to defeat them and save Duncan's Toy Chest
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#42. Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
Directed By: Les Mayfield
Written By: Valentine Davies (story), George Seaton (1947 screenplay), George Seaton & John Hughes (screenplay)
Starring: Richard Attenborough, Elizabeth Perkins, Dylan McDermott, J.T. Walsh, James Remar, Jane Leeves, Mara Wilson
IMDB Rating: 6.1
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 63%
A little girl discovers dreams do come true if you really believe. Six-year-old Susan has doubts about childhood's most enduring miracle - Santa Claus. Her mother told her the "secret" about Santa a long time ago, so Susan doesn't expect to receive the most important gifts on her Christmas list. But after meeting a special department store Santa who's convinced he's the real thing, Susan is given the most precious gift of all - something to believe in.
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#41. The Santa Clause (1994)
Directed By: John Pasquin
Written By: Leo Benvenuti, Steve Rudnick
Starring: Tim Allen, Eric Lloyd, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson, David Krumholtz, Mary Gross
IMDB Rating: 6.1
Rotten Tomatoes Rating: 63%
Divorcee Scott Calvin is disgusted to learn that his ex and her husband have tried - and failed - to break it easy to their 6-year-old son Charlie that Santa isn't real. On Christmas Eve, Scott reads The Night Before Christmas... then receives an unexpected visitor on his roof. When he's startled by Scott's calling out and falls, the Santa impersonator disappears, leaving only an 8-reindeer sleigh and a suit with instructions to put it on if he's involved in an accident. Scott does, and is transported around the town dropping gifts through chimneys until he's taken to the North Pole and informed by a group who claim they're elves that he is now Santa. Charlie is proud of his dad's new job, though Scott's convinced it's a dream. Until his hair turns white, his beard refuses to stay shaved, he gains weight inexplicably, even for his sudden love of junk food... Now he's accepted it, there's just one problem: how to keep it secret from his disbelieving family?
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