I would like to wish everyone a very merry Christmas, with hopes of much catnip and tuna for all! My hoomins have been very busy wrapping boxes in wrapping paper. This time tomorrow I will be joyfully ripping, shredding, and tearing apart their strange colored papers and dragging them under the bed.
In the meantime, while I await the great celebrations, I have compiled a list of Christmas movies everyone should see.
The Bishop's Wife (1947): A bishop trying to get a new cathedral built prays for guidance. It arrives in the form of an angel played by Carey Grant, but the guidance he has come to provide is not about the cathedral. This is a great movie. Carey Grant and David Niven are both really good actors, and the message never gets old: remember the big picture! It's a classic, like The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Harvey, or Arsenic and Old Lace.
The Christmas Tree (1996): This one was made for TV. I don't usually expect movies made for TV to be very good, but I am quite fond of this one. Julie Harris plays a nun who's very attached to a particular tree. She forms a friendship with Rockefeller Center's head gardener... and I won't give the rest away.
Ernest Saves Christmas (1988): Because it's very IBO. For those of you wondering what IBO means, it stands for "International Bogart Organization," as in Humphrey Bogart. I shall provide no further explanation on the matter.
White Christmas (1954): This movie will teach you to count your blessings instead of sheep when you can't sleep. Also the scene with Danny Kaye and Bing Crosby singing "Sisters, Sisters" has to be one of the all-time funniest scenes ever.
Scrooged (1988): Bill Murray plays a cynical, scroogy TV executive who hates everyone and has no soul. He's visited by the Christmas ghosts in this retelling of Scrooge. Very funny.
Other honorable mentions: National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation, Miracle on 34th St, A Charlie Brown Christmas, Die Hard, and Ghostbusters II.
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All my favourites! What good taste we have.
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