Top Ten Family-Friendly Christmas Movies
THE MUPPET CHRISTMAS CAROL
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
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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A CHRISTMAS CAROL (1999)
Robert Halmi, Sr., famous for his television renditions of classic literature, has teamed up with Patrick Stewart to recapture the essence of the Charles Dicken’s novel, A CHRISTMAS CAROL. This production is faithful to the novel and is more Gospel oriented than…
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THE NATIVITY STORY
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)
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
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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BLACK NATIVITY
BLACK NATIVITY is a musical drama inspired by Langston Hughes’ play. The story follows Langston, a teenager living with his single mother in Baltimore. With Christmas right around the corner, Langston finds out he and his mother are being evicted from their…
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DOLLY PARTON’S CHRISTMAS OF MANY COLORS: CIRCLE OF LOVE
DOLLY PARTON’S CHRISTMAS OF MANY COLORS: CIRCLE OF LOVE is a follow up to the MOVIEGUIDE(r) award winner TV movie COAT OF MANY COLORS about Dolly Parton’s childhood. In this program, Dolly’s father and her siblings make sacrifices so they can get…
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THE STAR
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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THE CHRONICLES OF NARNIA: THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE
THE LION, THE WITCH AND THE WARDROBE starts slightly before the Christian book by C. S. Lewis, with an air raid in London during World War II. Four children, Lucy, Peter, Edmund, and Susan, are taken to the English countryside for safety.…
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