With Christmas just around the corner, Her Campus CCCU have come up with our top ten festive films ready for the holidays.
1. Home Alone
*SHOUTS KEVIN!* What would Christmas be without this holiday favourite in at number one. Home Alone follows the McCallister family as they try to take a vacation during the festive period. The only problem is their youngest son Kevin isn’t feeling the Christmas spirt after the accidentally leave him….you guested it Home Alone. What to have for dinner isn’t the only problem on his list though as two bandits try to rob his house. We love to watch this film every year and can’t wait to laugh with tears over and over again.
2. Love Actually
This cult favourite festive film follows several different people as they try to make their dreams come true at Christmas. With an all-star cast including Liam Neeson, Colin Firth, Keira Knightley, Emma Thompson and Bill Nighy this one never fails to make us smile.
3. All I Want For Christmas
This 90’s cult classic never fails to get us in the Christmassy mood. The film follows siblings Ethan and Hallie O’Fallon as they try to get their parents back together for the Christmas holidays. With their moms new boyfriend getting in the way they have to get him out of the picture as well as reigniting their parent feelings for each other. Well with the holiday spirit and magic all around anything is possible, isn’t it?
4. The Grinch
One for all the family next on our list with Jim Carrey’s lovable green scrooge. ‘The Grinch’ tells the story of the title character who hates Christmas. Angry and fed up with the festive cheer in the nearby town of Whoville he concocts a wicked plan from his cave on Mt. Crumpit. He is going to steal Christmas from under everyone’s noses! With an array of talent, a heart-warming script and some of the funniest scenes in film this just had to be on our list.
5. Elf
Buddy, the human sized elf, gives us some much needed cheer as he goes in search of his real parents. After crawling into Santa’s present bag as a child and being raised at the North Pole he always felt different from the other elves in his class. Now he is let loose on New York City to try and find out where he really belongs. We love this light hearted Christmas tale and we would defiantly recommend it this holiday season.
6. Muppets: A Christmas Carol
What would Christmas time be without our favourite Muppets bringing the classic Dickens tale to life? Michael Cain co-stars in this film as the grumpy yet lovable Scrooge as the Muppets try to help him get his Christmas cheer back. Jokes, puns and Muppets are flying all over the shop in this family friendly tale.
7. Nightmare Before Christmas
Tim Burton’s animated holiday film was one of our favourite films when we were children and we still love it now. Jack Skellington is our main character who lives in the seasonal world of Halloween. One day our main man manages to find a door into the Christmas section of his world and he is fascinated. With his Christmas spirit in full swing he tries to bring a little holiday cheer to his scary world.
8. The Santa Claus
Tim Allen takes on the role of the big man in the red suit in this family friendly comedy. Christmas Eve is where we find divorcee dad Scott who has custody of his son for this special holiday night. Things don’t go according to plan after Scott accidently makes Santa fall off the roof and he has to take his place. Can he take on one of the biggest jobs of all time and deliver presents to all the children on the planet?
9. Miracle On 34th Street
We love both the original and the remake of this classic Christmas tale! Susan hasn’t really had your conventional childhood and fails to see the magic in the one man who makes all your dreams come true, Santa Claus. So when a department store Santa claims to be the real deal will she and the other sceptical people around her start to believe?
10. Scrooged
The contemporary retelling of A Christmas Carol just had to be on our list. Frank (Bill Murray) is your money obsessed, ruthless, TV executive who doesn’t have a Christmassy bone in his body. That is until he is visited by the ghosts of Christmas who are determined to get him to change his heartless ways.
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