For every Friday from now till Christmas, we’ll be showcasing a few of our picks for some of the best Holiday movies to add to your watchlist this season. So warm up your hot cocoa and get the fireplace started.. it’s time to get cozy and watch a holiday flick.
The Nightmare Before Christmas – PG – 76 min
Despite having recently presided over a very successful Halloween, Jack Skellington, aka the Pumpkin King, is bored with his job and feels that life in Halloweenland lacks meaning. Then he stumbles upon Christmastown and promptly decides to make the Yuletide his own.
Genre: Animation, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy
Directed By: Henry Selick, Tim Burton
Written By: Tim Burton, Caroline Thompson, Michael McDowell
The Shop Around the Corner – Not Rated – 97 min
The Shop Around the Corner is adapted from the Hungarian play by Nikolaus (Miklos) Laszlo. Budapest gift-shop clerk Alfred Kralik (James Stewart) and newly hired shopgirl Klara Novak (Margaret Sullavan) hate each other almost at first sight. Kralik would prefer the company of the woman with whom he is corresponding by mail but has never met. Novak likewise carries a torch for her male pen pal, whom she also has never laid eyes on.
Genre: Classics, Comedy, Drama, Romance
Directed By: Ernst Lubitsch
Written By: Samson Raphaelson
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