Every generation has our favorite holiday film. As a kid, I was partial to Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol, a long forgotten gem that’s getting the blu-ray treatment and a prime time replay this year. When the kids came along, White Christmas became number one. These days, Love Actually leads our list.
What’s your favorite Christmas film? Be honest, are you like me and tear up at the end of It’s a Wonderful Life every time they show it? Do you keep an eye on the TV Guide for the annual broadcast of A Charlie Brown Christmas? Did you ever buy a Norelco razor because you saw Santa riding it down a snowy slope in between scenes of Rudolph The Red Nose Reindeer?
Here’s what Entertainment Weekly says are the most popular holiday films of all time. It’s definitely not my list. Some wouldn’t be on mine at all. But let it be a conversation starter at those holiday parties we are all attending!
- It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)
- A Christmas Story (1983)
- A Charlie Brown Christmas (1965)
- Elf (2003)
- How the Grinch Stole Christmas (1966)
- Love Actually (2003)
- Bad Santa (2003)
- The Muppet Christmas Carol (1992)
- The Year Without Santa Claus (1974)
- Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)
- Home Alone (1990)
- Trading Places (1983)
- The Nightmare Before Christmas (1993)
- White Christmas (1954)
- Miracle on 34th Street (1947)
- Die Hard (1988)
- Scrooged (1988)
- National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation (1989)
- Gremlins (1984)
- The Santa Clause (1994)