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Top Ten Family-Friendly Christmas Movies

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THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL

Family Comedy/Musical · G

THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL is a live-action musical where the Muppets tell the classic Dickens story, with Michael Caine as Scrooge. Scrooge is beset by three ghosts who show him the past, present, and future results of his greed and bitterness. The…

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A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS

Family Animated/Comedy · (Not yet rated)

In the animated classic, A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS, Charlie Brown wonders why he feels sad despite the Christmas season. Charlie’s friend Linus asserts that he needs something productive to understand the reason for the season. Lucy dubs Charlie the director of the…

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THE NATIVITY STORY

Family Biblical Epic · PG

THE NATIVITY STORY is one of those very rare movies that brings the Gospel alive in a compelling, interesting, entertaining manner that shatters expectations. The movie references and quotes Scripture throughout. King Herod sends out the troops to kill all the innocents…

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THE NATIVITY STORY

Family Biblical Epic · PG

THE NATIVITY STORY is one of those very rare movies that brings the Gospel alive in a compelling, interesting, entertaining manner that shatters expectations. The movie references and quotes Scripture throughout. King Herod sends out the troops to kill all the innocents…

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THE GRINCH (2018)

Family Animated/Comedy/Fantasy · PG

THE GRINCH (2018) is a great movie about the true meaning of Christmas triumphing over alienation and materialism. The movie opens with the people of Whoville full of joy anticipating Christmas, their favorite holiday. After watching from his mountain fortress and buying…

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IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE

Family Drama · PG

IT’S A WONDERFUL LIFE is the Christmas movie classic, starring Jimmy Stewart and Donna Reed. It’s about the struggling owner of a small-town savings and loan company who discovers, with the help of a quirky angel named Clarence, that he’s the richest…

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7

I HEARD THE BELLS

Family Historical Drama · (Not yet rated)

I HEARD THE BELLS is a faith-filled Christmas movie that tells the story behind Henry Wadsworth Longfellow’s classic Christmas carol, “I Heard The Bells on Christmas Day.” Longfellow is often referred to as “America’s Poet.” The movie is set inside Longfellow’s Cambridge…

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THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS

Family Comedy · PG

THE MAN WHO INVENTED CHRISTMAS is a thoroughly delightful, enthralling movie about how Charles Dickens crafted the beloved Christmas classic A CHRISTMAS CAROL. A year after he wraps up a crowd-pleasing tour in America, Dickens finds himself overwhelmed with debt. He desperately…

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THE STAR

Family Animation/Comedy/Action Adventure · PG

THE STAR is a wonderful, hilarious, deeply reverential animated family movie centered on the birth of Jesus, but from the perspective of a lowly donkey named Bo. Bo and his best friend, Dave the dove, have dreams of joining the royal parade.…

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