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Cheesy Holiday Movies

I love to indulge my love of cheesy movies at the holidays. Amidst all the hussle and havoc I love popping in a holiday DVD to decompress.

Last year when my friend realized I'd never seen The Family Man she ordered me to immediately rent it. Loved it! I also LOVE a total tear-jerker called One True Thing starring Meryl Streep and Renee Zellwegger. I had some girlfriends over to watch that a couple years ago and we were weeping into our wine glasses. The other one I love is The Holiday. Totally gets at my love of the quaint English countryside.

What good holiday flicks am I missing?

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Absolute best holiday film of the last 20 years - Love Actually! My daughter and I watch it every Christmas. Has become as much a family tradition as It's A Wonderful LIfe.

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Miracle on 34th Street the old version
It's a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart
Meet Me in St Louis with Judy Garland
White Christmas with Bing Crosby (there are 2 versions the other one is Holiday Inn also with Bing Crosby)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Actually I love the old holiday movies from the '40's and '50's ---yes they are phony and cheesy but I remember in my younger years trying to copy that cozy feeling into my holidays.

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I also love "Love Actually". I even used it as a term paper for an Interpersonal Communications class I took. It was on the list of movies we could use and I had seen it a dozen or so times already, so it made it an easier assignment for me to do at the end of the semester with the upcoming holidays approaching. I always went as far ahead as I could (I did a 2 year degree that took me almost 5 to finish as a PT student...graduated in 2010).

In the end it worked out magically well. I had it done 6 weeks ahead of time all but final tweaking. Then my Mom died on Thanksgiving day (a few weeks before the end of the class and its due date). Was glad a movie we both loved helped make it easier for me to finish the class on top (A grade for the assignment and the class to maintain my 4.0 GPA).

Highly recommended!

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Absolute best holiday film of the last 20 years - Love Actually! My daughter and I watch it every Christmas. Has become as much a family tradition as It's A Wonderful LIfe.

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Ditto to White Christmas. My all-time favorite holiday movie.

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I also love "Love Actually". I even used it as a term paper for an Interpersonal Communications class I took. It was on the list of movies we could use and I had seen it a dozen or so times already, so it made it an easier assignment for me to do at the end of the semester with the upcoming holidays approaching. I always went as far ahead as I could (I did a 2 year degree that took me almost 5 to finish as a PT student...graduated in 2010).

In the end it worked out magically well. I had it done 6 weeks ahead of time all but final tweaking. Then my Mom died on Thanksgiving day (a few weeks before the end of the class and its due date). Was glad a movie we both loved helped make it easier for me to finish the class on top (A grade for the assignment and the class to maintain my 4.0 GPA).

Highly recommended!

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Love Actually is one of my favorites.

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I love cheesy movies! I agree with Tracy K on ELF! For some reason, that movie always makes me laugh - I love Will Ferrell. My family also loves other cheesy movies (maybe not so "holiday") but we always end up choosing it during gatherings: Journey to the center of the earth (the new one), anything with Steve Martin, Get Smart, Overboard (with Goldie Hawn), Father of the Bride (1&2)... I could go on...

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O' I torture my poor family to watch Christmas movies with me every night from 11/20 on. There is a tv station that has the 25 days of Christmas movies on every night. LOVE THEM! Have you seen "The Christmas Shoes"? That is a great one. Also, "The Christmas Visitor" is a good one.

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I love White Christmas... and of course A Christmas Story, and the newer Elf. My hubs loves the Chevy Chase family vacation Christmas movie (I'm not a fan though).

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Miracle on 34th Street the old version
It's a Wonderful Life with Jimmy Stewart
Meet Me in St Louis with Judy Garland
White Christmas with Bing Crosby (there are 2 versions the other one is Holiday Inn also with Bing Crosby)
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
Actually I love the old holiday movies from the '40's and '50's ---yes they are phony and cheesy but I remember in my younger years trying to copy that cozy feeling into my holidays.

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