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Tuesday, December 10, 2013

Christmas holiday movie party/marathon

What better way to celebrate Christmas than with a Christmas holiday movie marathon.
All you need is some hot cocoa and cookies. tub of popcorn and a movie list. you are all prepared to either have a movie Christmas party or watch it just with your family or your loved one snuggled in.

you can even have a hot cocoa bar to treat yourself with some goodies.







use your imagination:)

here's a quick recipe for you for some hot cocoa

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Hot Chocolate! By Susan Branch


Here is the list of my favorite Christmas holiday movies.

Home Alone 1
An 8-year-old boy who is accidentally left behind while his family flies to France for Christmas must defend his home against idiotic burglars.   


Home Alone 2
One year after Kevin was left home alone and had to defeat a pair of bumbling burglars, he accidentally finds himself in New York City, and the same criminals are not far behind.   


Dennis the Menace
Dennis Christmas is a Dennis The Menace version of A Christmas Carol where Mr. Wilson plays his own version of Scrooge. While Dennis has problems of his own with the neighborhood bully, he does his best to try and give Mr. Wilson the Christmas Spirit. Dennis causes his usual damage and Mr. Wilson ends up breaking Dennis' spirit. An Angel of Christmas Past Present and Future steps in to help save Christmas for the Mitchells, the Wilsons, and everyone else.           


Richie Rich Christmas wish
After getting blamed for spoiling Christmas, the richest kid in the world wishes he'd never been born. Unfortunately, a wishing machine, invented by professor Keenbean, picked up the wish and made it come true. Now Richie finds himself in a parallel world where his only hope is to find professor Keenbean and the wishing machine so he can wish things back to normal.           



Jingle all the Way
A father decides to dream the impossible; to get a Turbo Man action figure for his son just before Christmas.   



Eloise at Christmas time
Eloise insists on helping with yuletide nuptials.   
 
 
The Family Man
A fast-lane investment broker wakes up to find that his sports car and girlfriend have become a mini-van and wife.
 
 
 
 
The Holiday
 
Two women swap homes for the holidays and meet up with their dream men.
 
 
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster
 
 
A Christmas Story
Ralphie has to convince his parents, teachers, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect gift for the 1940s.   
 
 
 
Love, Actually
We follow a large group of inter-related people for the five weeks leading up to Christmas, exploring their various love-states: new romance, sexual flings, new marriage, old marriage, siblings, parent-child, young love, and infidelity, as well as several others.
 
 
Surviving Christmas
A smug, cynical young millionaire pays a family to spend Christmas with him.
Surviving Christmas poster.JPG
 
 
Elf
The story is about one of Santa's elves who learns of his true identity as a human and goes to New York City to meet his biological father, spreading Christmas cheer in a world of cynics as he goes.
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Four Christmases
A couple struggles to visit all four of their divorced parents on Christmas Day.   
 
 
Serendipity
A couple reunite years after the night they first met, fell in love, and separated, convinced that one day they'd end up together.   
Serendipity (2001) Poster
 
 
Mixed Nuts
The events focus around a crisis hotline business on one crazy night during the Christmas holidays.   
Mixed Nuts (1994) Poster
 
 
 
The Santa Clause
When a man inadvertantly kills Santa on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.   
The Santa Clause (1994) Poster
 
 
 
A Christmas Carol
An animated retelling of Charles Dickens' classic novel about a Victorian-era miser taken on a journey of self-redemption, courtesy of several mysterious Christmas apparitions.   
A Christmas Carol (2009) Poster

 

Gremlins
No, this is not your run-of-the-mill holiday movie: An innocent Christmas gift — a furry Mogwai — flips the whole snowy town on its head, when the soft and cuddly turn not-so-snuggly. Beware of feeding some pets after midnight
gremlins






 
Christmas with the Kranks
With their daughter away, her parents decide to skip Christmas altogether until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they have to celebrate the holidays at the last minute.   
Christmas with the Kranks (2004) Poster
 
 
 
Holiday in handcuffs
A struggling artist working as waitress kidnaps one of her customers to bring home and meet her parents at Christmas.   
Holiday in Handcuffs (2007) Poster



Trapped in Paradise
Residents of a friendly Pennsylvania town foil three brothers' plan to rob a bank on Christmas Eve.   
Trapped in Paradise (1994) Poster

The Polar Express
Set on Christmas Eve aboard a magical train, this feel-good animated storybook adaptation reminds kids of all ages that sometimes you just have to believe. Bonus: Tom Hanks voices several characters
polar express
 
 
Little Women
Nothing summons the Christmas spirit like a tight-knit family! This Oscar-nominated classic stars an unmissable band of A-listers (Winona Ryder, Susan Sarandon, and Kirsten Dunst, to name a few) and captures the generosity of the holiday
little women

 
 
There are many others but these are my favorite few.
you can include your own movies and have a beautiful movie marathon and celebrate the spirit of Christmas.
 
For other ways on celebrating Christmas, I have a detailed list here and here.
 
Enjoy the holiday season.
 
Freeze whipped cream on a cookie sheet, use cookie cutter to cut out hearts and serve with cocoa!  WHY haven't I thought about this!?.
 
xoxo
Bhakti
 
 
 
 
 
 

2 comments:

  1. Great compilation Bhakti!:)
    Have watched most of 'em , will try completing the rest of 'em this x'mas.:)

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  2. thts a grt list!! will take ages to finish these! :) ;P

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