What's your favorite Christmas movie or show?

[Mikekoz13]

Well the movie part is easy for me:

"It's a Wonderful Life" starring Jimmy Stewart. The message is timeless and the story is absolutely wonderful.

I'm also a huge fan of "The Polar Express" with Tom Hanks from a few years back. We sit and watch it as a Family every year. Again... the message is timeless, the story amazing, the animation superb, and the music beautiful and fun. This movie is a real Christmas treat.

Favorite Christmas show:

In 1979 one of those old Bass-Rankin shows (similar to Rudolph) with the puppets called "Jack Frost" was shown for the first time. It's funny with a great message. There is one scene in it where the VERY poor Family is sitting around a table with a wrapped box. There is nothing in the box and they are passing it around the table to each other. As each gets it they sing a song called "It's Just What I Always Wanted" and they imagine that it is something wonderful. It is my single favorite scene in any of the old children's Christmas specials.
Enjoy that scene here:

[Sly Red]

I agree with you Mike, It's a Wonderful Life.  We go to a showing every year at the historic Pickwick Theater in Park Ridge , Illinois.  The showing was last Sunday.  It's our fourth year going.  I always get weepy at the end.

This movie was made five years before I was born so can you imagine what kids who were born in the 21st century must think when watching it?  Talk about a whole 'nother world! 

Red

[Mikekoz13]

I agree with you Mike, It's a Wonderful Life.  We go to a showing every year at the historic Pickwick Theater in Park Ridge , Illinois.  The showing was last Sunday.  It's our fourth year going.  I always get weepy at the end.

This movie was made five years before I was born so can you imagine what kids who were born in the 21st century must think when watching it?  Talk about a whole 'nother world! 

Red

My 12 year old son loves it but he has a very "old soul"...............

[Paul]

My favorite tv show is a Hallmark presentation I think it called the Christmas Visitor.   It's about a family that hasn't celebrated Christmas since there son was killed in Desert Storm and how he comes back (unrecognized by them of course).  For films, I love the old films too   But for me it is a real toss up between It's a Wonderful Life and the Cary Grant/Loretta Young version of The Bishops Wife

[D.A.L.U.I.]

the Cary Grant/Loretta Young version of The Bishops Wife

  That's really up there.  Really enjoy it.

[hammerdrill376]

Movie-Home Alone

No particular favorite TV show.

[tomgallagher]

"A Christmas Carol" with George C. Scott.

[FR8TRAIN]

"A Christmas Story". I love it. 24 hours of it every Christmas Eve.

"You'll shoot your eye out!"

[wpruitt]

Gotta be "It's A Wonderful Life"

[buddha]

My favorite is one that I don't believe that anyone has heard of beside me. I have spoken to people that I consider to have great filmography knowledge and no one has ever heard of it.
The movie is entitled "The Cheaters", filmed in 1945 it starred Joseph Shildkraut as a down and out has-been actor who gets taken in for Christmas dinner by a wealthy family named the Pidgeons. This family does this every year as a way to clear their consciences of all the relatively underhanded things they do throughout the year. Shildkraut's character helps them to really see the light on this particular Christmas and it turns out to be a life changing night for all concerned.
I haven't seen this thing since about 1965 but I don't think that the memory of it will ever completely leave me.
If I could find it on dvd I would snap it up quick and make watching it an annual Christmas tradition.

[Mikekoz13]

My favorite is one that I don't believe that anyone has heard of beside me. I have spoken to people that I consider to have great filmography knowledge and no one has ever heard of it.
The movie is entitled "The Cheaters", filmed in 1945 it starred Joseph Shildkraut as a down and out has-been actor who gets taken in for Christmas dinner by a wealthy family named the Pidgeons. This family does this every year as a way to clear their consciences of all the relatively underhanded things they do throughout the year. Shildkraut's character helps them to really see the light on this particular Christmas and it turns out to be a life changing night for all concerned.
I haven't seen this thing since about 1965 but I don't think that the memory of it will ever completely leave me.
If I could find it on dvd I would snap it up quick and make watching it an annual Christmas tradition.

Hey Buddha-

Merry Christmas!!!!!

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[Tyro]

My 12 year old son loves it but he has a very "old soul"...............

Like father like son.   

My son enjoys these two holiday chestnuts. A yearly viewing staple for my family.

[Stu]

Can't name just one because I like many for differing reasons.  Some of my favorites are:
-- White Christmas
-- Holiday Inn
-- It's a Wonderful Life
-- Miracle on 34th Street
-- Christmas in Connecticut

[PBurke]

the grinch! and charlie brown. guess i love cartoons!

[Rob]

White Christmas
It's a Wonderful Life
Holiday Inn
Scrooge (with Alistair Simm)