<p>Or other holiday movie?</p>
<p>Now, I love love lovee Christmastime and love all Christmas movies, from Lifetime to big budget.</p>
<p>My favorites have to be:
Elf
Home Alone
National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
It’s a Wonderful Life
The Grinch
The Family Stone
While you were Sleeping (Christmas-y)
and tons of others!</p>
<p>My favorite is A Christmas Story (Ralphie and his dream of getting a Red Ryder BB gun / 'You’ll shoot your eye out, kid!)</p>
<p>The Holiday is our favorite.</p>
<p>I literally just got finished watching it on ABC Family, and it almost brought out tears, so I’m gonna say The Polar Express. Also, Deck the Halls, Home Alone, and Christmas with the Kranks.</p>
<p>Love Actually…It’s a Wonderful Life…Home Alone (the original because I watched it with my kids when they were small.)</p>
<p>Trading Places
Jingle All The Way - I watched this on the airplane with my family on Dec 24.</p>
<p>Miracle on 34th Street</p>
<p>The Holiday and Jingle all the Way…another two favorites of mine.</p>
<p>I just love em all. ;)</p>
<p>It’s a tie between A Christmas Story and Christmas Vacation with Home Alone just behind.</p>
<p>It’s a Wonderful Life
The Bishop’s Wife
Christmas in Connecticutt (the comic side of Barbara Stanwyk on full display)</p>
<p>A Christmas Story, hands down. I live in the area and remember many of the places. Ralphie’s school was demolished a few years ago.</p>
<p>A Christmas Story, by far.
But I also enjoy It’s a Wonderful Life and the original Miracle on 34th St. But it isn’t Christmas unless we can watch A Christmas Story.
Ho, ho, ho, kid.</p>
<p>My “brag” is that H (who was then my BF) and I saw A Christmas Story in the theater the weekend it was released. I think we’re part of a very small group…</p>
<p>That’s my fave, followed by It’s a Wonderful Life and Elf…</p>
<p>I love A Christmas Story too…always called “the BB gun movie” when my boys were little.</p>
<p>However, one of my big favorites that no one has mentioned is Holiday Inn (1942) with Bing Crosby, Fred Astair and twelve songs by Irving Berlin including White Christmas. It’s a great movie. I look for it on the old movie channels every Christmas.</p>
<p>My DS and I love to watch Scrooged with Bill Murray.</p>
<p>I love all the Santa Clause movies with Tim Allen</p>
<p>Bad Santa
A Christmas Carol
The Hudsucker Proxy (for New Year’s)
A Christmas Story</p>
<p>My family has a thing for retellings of A Christmas Carol. We love Scrooged. Others we watch at least once a year: Scrooge (the musical version with Albert Finney - some terrific songs and great British actors like Alec Guiness and Edith Evans); A Muppet Christmas Carol with Michael Caine as Scrooge and Kermit as Bob Cratchit; and my favorite from childhood, Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol. Animation has come a long way but the Ghost of Christmas Future in that is still the scariest one I’ve ever seen.</p>
<p>I love Christmas in Connecticut and Holiday Inn, too. We like classic movies and a couple others from that era that are lots of fun are Bachelor Mother (Ginger Rogers and David Niven) and The Man Who Came to Dinner.</p>
<p>One of our two must-do Christmas Eve traditions is watching It’s a Wonderful Life.</p>
<p>"We’ll follow the old man wherever he wants to go
Long as he wants to go opposite to the foe</p>
<p>We’ll stay with the old man wherever he wants to stay
Long as he stays away from the battle’s fray</p>
<p>Because we love him, we love him
Especially when he keeps us on the ball</p>
<p>And we’ll tell the kiddies we answered duty’s call
With the grandest son of a soldier of them all" </p>
<p>Watch it every year (usually more than once), gets me every time!</p>
<p>" Three Godfathers" 1948 dir: John Ford</p>
<p>Makes me cry every year. The story of the three wise men retold in a western film. One of John Waynes greatest roles and Pedro Armendariz is fantastic. Keep your eyes open when Ford recreates the annunciation with Pedro Armendariz and Mildred Natwick.Only Ford could use the opening of a covered wagon and a dead tree to evoke holy ground.
Here is the entire movie----keep your hankies close at hand. [3</a> Godfathers - YouTube](<a href=“3 Godfathers - YouTube”>3 Godfathers - YouTube)</p>
<p>Rapturously beautiful cinematography by Winton Hoch.</p>