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What are the best Christmas movies to enjoy this holiday season?
The holiday season is in full effect and that means holiday baking, shopping and kicking back and relaxing with friends and family. I took a small survey a while back and asked the question “ What’s your favorite holiday movie of all time with or without pets? I asked and you answered. So without further adieu here are the 14 Best Christmas movies to enjoy this holiday season!
I’ve categorized these movies into three categories; movies with animals, a few classics and animated movies. So let’s get started.
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Movies with Animals
1. Dr. Suess How the Grinch Stole Christmas
On the outskirts of Whoville, there lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch who plans on ruining the Christmas holiday for all of the citizens of the town.*
In this spin-off of the Air Bud franchise, five pups follow an ice cream transport truck to a plane and end up flying with the ice cream shipment to Alaska. There they find a pup friend and a boy who needs five dogs for a big race.*
3. A Dog Named Christmas
A developmentally challenged young man with a penchant for caring for animals in need sets out to convince his family – and their whole rural community – to participate in a local shelter’s inaugural “Adopt a Dog for Christmas Program.”*
4. Snow Dogs
When a Miami dentist inherits a team of sled dogs, he’s got to learn the trade or lose his pack to a crusty mountain man.*
Classics
5. It’s a Wonderful Life
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.*
6. Love Actually
Follows the lives of eight very different couples in dealing with their love lives in various loosely interrelated tales all set during a frantic month before Christmas in London, England.*
7. Home Alone
An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during Christmas vacation.*
8. Miracle on 34th Street
A lawyer and a little girl must prove that a man claiming to be Santa Claus is the real thing.*
9. A Christmas Story
In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie attempts to convince his parents, his teacher, and Santa that a Red Ryder B.B. gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.*
Animated
10. Nightmare Before Christmas
Jack Skellington, king of Halloween Town, discovers Christmas Town, but his attempts to bring Christmas to his home cause confusion.*
11. Polar Express
A young boy embarks on a magical adventure to the North Pole on the Polar Express. During his adventure he learns about friendship, bravery, and the spirit of Christmas.*
12. Charlie Brown Christmas
Repelled by the commercialism he sees around him, Charlie Brown tries to find the true meaning of Christmas.*
13. Frosty the Snowman
A living snowman and a little girl struggle to elude a greedy magician who is after the snowman’s magic hat.*
14. Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
A misfit reindeer and his friends look for a place that will accept them.*
*Movie summaries courtesy of http://www.imdb.com
Did you like this list of best holiday movies? Did your favorite make the list? Are you looking for even more holiday fun? Check out my holiday treats post Guilt Free Pumpkin Spice Holiday Cookies!
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