It is only a few days after Thanksgiving and we have completed viewing of our first holiday movie. I am a sucker for holiday movies. Some aren’t even holiday movies but because such memorable scenes they become associated with the holidays. Sleepless in Seattle always reminds me of the holidays…”horses, horses, horses. Next up jingle bells sung backwards.” Some others that are holidayish: Die Hard, You’ve got Mail, and many others. In my 38 years some new movies have carved their place in the list of must view holiday favorites. Of the new movies my favorites would have to be in this order are: Elf, A Christmas Story and National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation. My animated favorites are Charlie Brown Christmas, Rudolph the red-nosed reindeer, Frosty the snowman and Emmet Otter’s jug-band Christmas. I love watching all of them but it is the classics I love the most.
My dad’s favorite and therefore the first one I fell in love with is Miracle on 34th Street
A great movie about believing in people and dreams and the Macy’s Thanksgiving day parade. To this day I still wait for Santa Claus at the end of the parade. Because I am me I get very excited when he comes on screen and even got a little teary this year from the excitement. I do have to say that the rest of the parade has really gone down hill and if Doris Walker was in charge she would have none of this.
For some reason my parents never watched It’s a Wonderful Life every year when it came on TV so I didn’t see it until relatively recently. From the first time I saw it I was in love. In love with George Bailey and his amazing dreams. With Clarence and his sweet innocence and Zuzu and her petals.
“What is it you want, Mary? What do you want? You want the moon? Just say the word and I’ll throw a lasso around it and pull it down. Hey. That’s a pretty good idea. I’ll give you the moon, Mary”
The plot description got me and it sounded very Holiday Inn like in it’s humor. It is about a food writer who has lied about being the perfect housewife must try to cover her deception when her boss and a returning war hero invite themselves to her home for a traditional family Christmas. That and outside of The Wizard of Oz I am not a huge Judy Garland fan. It was a cute movie and made me laugh out loud a couple times. It was no Miracle on 34th street or It’s a Wonderful Life but it was a good start to the holiday season.
