Christmas Movies

There have been many Christmas movies spanning over the past six decades. One of the first movies based on Christmas was “White Christmas” filmed in the year 1954. This movie starred such actors as Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye and featured the songs of Irving Berlin, including White Christmas.

Christmas Carol: the movie, based on the Charles Dickens classic novel, was released as an animation in 2001. This movie starred such voices as Nicolas Cage, Simon Callow, Kate Winslet, and Jane Horrocks.

It's a Very Merry Muppet Christmas Movie was released in 2002 and starred Jim Henson’s muppet characters. It follows the same storyline as It’s a wonderful life, the 1946 Frank Capra film, that starred the insatiable James Stewart. When faced with financial and legal troubles, his character contemplates suicide. He is then visited by his guardian angel who shows him what life would be like if he had never been born. In the end the christmas spirit is found in the hearts of the entire town and they band together to help free him of his burdens. The helpful guardian angel graduates to a full fledged angel when a bell on the christmas tree rings and Stewart’s daughter says “Teacher says, anytime a bell rings an angel gets their wings”. Donna Reed also starred in this christmas movie classic.

Christmas with the Kranks is a 2004 release that starred Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis. This comedy is based on the 2001 novel skipping christmas by John Grisham. The plotline starts when their daughter decides not to come home for christmas and so her parents decide they will skip the holidays but when at the last minute she changes her mind they have to go into overdrive to get everything ready for a family christmas all together.

The Nightmare Before Christmas is a movie cross of Halloween and Christmas. Directed by Tim Burton this holiday scare puts Santa Claus, Jack Skellington and even the poor easter bunny in the same plotline. On Christmas Eve, Jack leaves on his makeshift sleigh flanked by skeletal reindeers and his ghost dog named Zero. Jack's scary and sometimes dangerous presents put the people in the real world in a panic and they begin to call the police with reports of attacking Christmas toys and an imposter Santa Claus. Jack is targeted by the military and shot down and at the same time, Sally goes to try and rescue Santa Claus. Oogie Boogie captures Sally but in the end Jack realizes he should stick to what he does best, Halloween, and all is well.

Christmas on mars is a newer christmas movie, finished in 2005. This feature film by the band, the Flaming Lips, has been in production for over five years. It is rumored for release at some point in 2006. Christmas on Mars is written and directed by Flaming Lips frontman Wayne Coyne and featuring all of the band and many of their associates as actors. This includes songwriter and former host of Blue's Clues, Steve Burns, and Elijah Wood of Lord of the Rings. This film tells the story of Major Syrtis (The Flaming Lips' drummer Steven Drozd) during the first Christmas on a newly-colonized Mars. Coyne described the film as "Maybe Eraserhead or Dead Man crossed with fantasy and space aspects, like The Wizard of Oz and 2001: A Space Odyssey, except done without real actors or money, and set at Christmas-time.

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