Comments on: ListMania! Top Ten Family Christmas Movies

By: David Hagy

David Hagy — Sat, 22 Dec 2007 05:40:35 +0000

I love your thoughts, but my favorite is the ORIGINAL Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol which was NINETY minutes, not the sixty that is currently being sold. I WISH I could find the original. It is so much better and everything connects and makes sense. When I was a teen they cut 30 minutes of it so it would be more politically correct (not making fun of his eyesight problems) and would fit the more standard television slot. I WOULD PAY A FORTUNE to get my hands on the original!

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By: lydia

lydia — Fri, 30 Nov 2007 00:36:39 +0000

My favorite as a kid was the Muppet Family Christmas. You can buy it now, but it’s been edited from what I remember it to be. We had it on tape and watched it all the time.

By: Mika

Mika — Wed, 28 Nov 2007 06:51:18 +0000

I love your list! I’m kind of glad that you didn’t include That Jimmy Stewart Movie. Personally, at a time for family and cheer, it was pretty depressing. I think that it is a Christmas movie simply because it tugs at most people’s hearts all the time.

I do think that “Muppet Christmas Carol,” “Scrooged,” and “The Santa Clause” needs to be added to the list. Please ignore The Santa Clauses 2 & 3. And for adults, “Love Actually” is also great.

I’m surprised that no one has mentioned “The Holiday” with Kate Winslet! It isn’t the most obvious choice, but it is cute, and (to me) filled with more hope than That Jimmy Stewart Movie.

By: gamma

gamma — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:34:51 +0000

OK, now you’ve got me completely off topic! I love A Child’s Christmas In Wales–the book, I mean. We read it every Christmas eve. I prefer the edition illustrated by Trina Schart Hyman, and it is in tatters.

Perhaps a list of family Christmas books? I know, there’s a lot of overlap with the movies, but sometimes the classics come in many different editions, and it would be helpful to tag the good ones.

Such as The Gift of the Magi illustrated by Lisbeth Zwerger…somebody stop me now!

By: kagoo

kagoo — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 16:15:22 +0000

Well, for me it’s the 1951 Christmas Carol with Alastair Sim and — does no one share the love? — Meet Me in St. Louis. Not an all-about-Christmas movie, since it’s broken into four segments (one for each season) but geez — the Christmas segment? With Judy Garland singing “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas” to a sobbing Margaret O’Brien? (And a sobbing Kagoo.) It doesn’t get any lovelier than that.

I also love the sweet and moving BBC version of A Child’s Christmas in Wales, with Denholm Elliott. (Of course, the recording of Dylan Thomas reading it is the gold standard, but it’s not a movie.)

And thanks to whoever mentioned The Ref. It wouldn’t have sprung to mind, but it’s a gem. Judy Davis in that wreath!!

By: Bridey

Bridey — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 05:40:00 +0000

I’m with you, raincoaster, on The Bishop’s Wife. It’s just lovely, and who could possibly make a more plausible angel than Cary Grant?

By: gemdiva

gemdiva — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:03:38 +0000

Raincoaster you and I have got to share a bag of popcorn and a few martinis. We have the same taste in flicks. The Ref (one of my alltime favorites) IAWL (which I watch with a box of tissues) The Thin Man (“Lanky Brunettes with Wicked Jaws” what a line) The Bishops Wife (Cary Grant as an angel, talk about type casting)! I do enjoy A Christmas Story & Christmas Vacation. Shazza, I’m with you all the way on Mr. Magoo!! I also like Tim Allen in The Santa Clause and Emmet Otter’s Jug Band Christmas. Not nuts about Home Alone except for the traveling polka band. Tis the season to watch TV.

By: Rondi

Rondi — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:34:57 +0000

What about the wonderful and always overlooked “Whistle Down the Wind”? Here’s the imdb entry for it:
http://imdb.com/title/tt0055618/