With the grandbabies at 2 1/2 and 3 1/2 we’re going through just about every Christmas movie there is. Today we saw a new one with Kurt Russell, The Christmas Chronicles. They so far really enjoyed Home Alone. I like Christmas Vacation, A Christmas Story, and Four Christmas’. My wife loves Elf
I can’t believe that no one has mentioned Charles Dicken’s “A Christmas Carol” (someone listed Scrooged but I do not consider that to be a serious telling of the story.) I’ll admit that I am a bit of a Christmas Carol junkie. I am torn between the George C. Scott version and the Patrick Stewart version for first place. Both are excellent. Even the Disney animated version is a faithful telling of the story. I have also enjoyed Henry Winkler’s An American Christmas Carol. I introduced my children (all now fully grown) to the Christmas Carol with “A Muppet Christmas Carol” which is also reasonably faithful to the original and a good way to introduce children to a piece of classic literature. I recently watched the FX Channels version of the Christmas Carol and was not impressed. They took way too much license with the story points.