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Almost Christmas

Kimberly Elise · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Oh, the joy of family. A new comedy from writer/director David E. Talbert (Baggage Claim) and producer Will Packer (Ride Along, Think Like a Man series) , Almost Christmas tells the festive story of a beloved patriarch who asks his family for one gift this holiday season: to get along....
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Bad Santa

Billy Bob Thornton · Miramax Lionsgate
Format: DVD

The baddest Santa ever comes to town with the hilarious Billy Bob Thornton, Bernie Mac, and John Ritter! Ill-mannered store Santa Willie Stokes (Thornton) is really a safecracker with a holiday tradition of making one big score every Christmas Eve with his clever Elf-partner-in- crime...
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Disney's A Christmas Carol

~ Jim Carrey · Walt Disney Pictures
Format: DVD

From Walt Disney Pictures comes the magical retelling of Charles Dickens' beloved tale - Disney's A Christmas Carol, the high-flying, heartwarming adventure for the whole family, starring Jim Carrey. When three ghosts take penny-pinching Scrooge on an eye-opening journey, he discovers...
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The Gathering

Edward Asner · WarnerBrothers
Format: DVD

A fondly remembered holiday item from the latter phase of a great age of TV movies, The Gathering has an irresistible idea and a splendid central performance from Edward Asner, the actor for whom the term gruff but lovable was surely coined. We learn in the opening seconds of the film that...
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Holiday Inn

Mark Sandrich · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Screen legends Bing Crosby and Fred Astaire sing and dance their way into your heart in one of the most timeless holiday classics ever, Holiday Inn. Featuring the Academy Award-winning song, "White Christmas," Crosby plays a song-and dance man who leaves showbiz to run an inn that...
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Santa Clause 2

~ Tim Allen · WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Format: DVD

Walt Disney Pictures presents an all-new comedy adventure overflowing with holiday cheer. Tim Allen reappears in SANTA CLAUSE 2, the hilarious sequel to everybody's holiday favorite. Scott Calvin (Allen) has been Santa Claus for the past eight years, and his loyal elves consider him the best...
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The Santa Clause 3 - The Escape Clause

Tim Allen · WALT DISNEY STUDIOS HOME ENTERTAINMENT
Format: DVD

Tim Allen is back in the big red suit for more adventure and laughs in Disney's hilarious family comedy. Get ready for a thrilling sleigh ride as the reluctant Santa Claus faces his most chilling and hysterical challenge yet. As Christmas nears, Scott Calvin invites his in-laws (Ann-Margret...
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Saving Christmas

Kirk Cameron · PROVIDENT
Format: DVD

This Christmas, have your family join with Kirk Camerons family and dive headfirst into all the joy, dancing, celebration, feasting, imagination, and traditions that glorify the true reason for the season. SAVING CHRISTMAS is an engaging story that provides a biblical basis for our time-honored...
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Christmas Carol, A

Reginald Owen · WarnerBrothers
Format: DVD

In one haunted evening, embittered old miser Ebenezer Scrooge, who has soured on the world and his fellowman, learns the true spirit of Christmas from three ghostly visitors. After moving visions of long-dead happiness, of past and present remorse and a fearful glimpse into the future,...
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A Christmas Carol

Brian Desmond Hurst · Vci Entertainment
Format: DVD

Alastair Sim's tour-de-force performance as the ultimate miser, Ebenezer Scrooge, has almost single-handedly made this beloved version of Charles Dickens' story into one of the best-loved Christmas films of all time. Some of Britain's best filmmakers united behind Sim, who was joined by a delightful...
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Christmas with the Kranks

Tim Allen · Sony Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

When their only daughter Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora Krank (Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis) decide to book an island cruise to beat the yuletide blues and just skip the holidays. But their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when...
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The Family Man

Nicolas Cage · Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Jack Campbell (Academy Award winner Nicolas Cage) is a single, wealthy Wall Street trader living the high life in New York City. All that magically changes one winter morning when he wakes up in suburban New Jersey next to Kate (Tea Leoni) , the girlfriend he left 13 years ago. He's...
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The Family Stone

Claire Danes
Format: DVD

A woman meets her future in-laws and discovers they don't much care for her in this comedy from writer and director Thomas Bezucha. Everett Stone (Dermot Mulroney) is a successful young businessman who is dating Meredith Morton (Sarah Jessica Parker) , and has asked her to spend...

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Jingle All the Way (Family Fun Edition)

Arnold Schwarzenegger · 20th Century Fox
Format: DVD

Arnold Schwarzenegger returns in a new holiday comedy as a father determined to buy his son that "must have" Christmas toy during a frantic shopping spree on Christmas Eve.

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Jingle All the Way 2

Larry The Cable Guy · Twentieth Century Fox Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Larry the Cable Guy embarks on a wacky journey to defend Christmas from cancellation per the demands of the new mayor. ~ Tracie Cooper
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Love Actually

Hugh Grant · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Feel the love this holiday season with the Love Actually 10th Anniversary Edition! Funny, charming and heartwarming, this delightful romantic comedy follows eight couples whose lives intersect shortly before Christmas. Headlined by an incredible roster of stars, this beloved film also...

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Miracle on 34th Street (1994)

Richard Attenborough · 20th Century Fox
Format: DVD

Anyone skeptical of updated retreads of Christmas movie classics may be genuinely surprised by this 1994 version of Miracle on 34th Street. Based on the 1947 holiday classic, this new Miracle sticks close to the original's story, though it offers more contemporary,...

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Miracle On 34th St (1947)

John Payne · 20th Century Fox
Format: DVD

Edmund Gwenn plays Kris Kringle, a bearded old gent who is the living image of Santa Claus. Serving as a last-minute replacement for the drunken Santa who was to have led Macy's Thanksgiving Parade, Kringle is offered a job as a Macy's toy-department Santa. Supervisor Maureen...

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The Muppet Christmas Carol

Michael Caine · Walt Disney Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Greetings, holiday movie fans and culture lovers, I am the Great Gonzo...or, as I am better known to fans of this classic motion picture -- literary legend Charles Dickens. Ready to laugh, cry, sing, frolic, cavort and enjoy yourself beyond belief!? Well, you're in luck, because this...

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The Nutcracker: The Untold Story

Elle Fanning · Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Experience the classic holiday tale of the Nutcracker brought to life like you have never seen it before. This all-new film features a highly-acclaimed cast including; Elle Fanning, Nathan Lane, Frances de la Tour and John Turturro. Join Mary on a magical adventure when her toy nutcracker...

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Santa Claus: Movie

Dudley Moore · Lions Gate
Format: DVD

This is the story of a master toymaker who discovers a magical kingdom of elves at the North Pole. He is entrusted with special powers to become Santa Claus! He meets Patch (Dudley Moore) , an eager-to-please elf who becomes mixed up with a dastardly toy tycoon's (John Lithgow) plans...

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Holiday Family Classics: The Thanksgiving Treasure / The House Without A Christmas Tree

Jason Robards · Paramount
Format: DVD

Celebrate the holiday season with two all-American family classics based on the beloved novels by Gail Rock! The House Without A Christmas Tree and The Thanksgiving Treasure follow the everyday adventures and small miracles of the Mills family. Addie Mills (Lisa Lucas) is a smart...

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White Christmas (Diamond Anniversary Edition)

Bing Crosby · Paramount
Format: DVD

Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye team up to enliven a winter resort inn. The Irving Berlin musical score sparkles with some great tunes, including the magical title track.

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Elf

~ Will Ferrell · New Line Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

This hilarious Christmas film tells the tale of a young orphan child who mistakenly crawls into Santa's bag of gifts on Christmas Eve and is transported back to the North Pole and raised as an elf. Years later Buddy learns he is not really an elf and goes on a journey to New York City...
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Dr. Seuss' How The Grinch Stole Christmas

Jeffrey Price · Universal Studios Home Entertainment
Format: DVD

Discover the true meaning of the holiday season with the live action adaptation of the beloved classic, Dr. Seuss' How the Grinch Stole Christmas. Starring Jim Carrey as the Grinch, director Ron Howard and producer Brian Grazer reimagine one of the most enduring holiday stories of all time....
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Gift Of The Magi

Lisa Mulcahy · Vivendi Entertainment, 2011.
Pages: n/a
Format: DVD video

With the holidays just around the corner, struggling newlyweds Jim and Della Young are challenged to get each other the perfect gift. Determined to make each their respective wishes come true, they make a secret sacrifice. But a series of misunderstandings soon undermine their respective...
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Home Alone

Macaulay Culkin · 20th Century Fox
Format: DVD

Accidentally left behind when his parents rush off on their Christmas vacation, eight-year-old Kevin McCallister embarks on a hilarious, madcap mission to defend the family home when two bumbling burglars try to break in, and find themselves tangled in Kevin's bewildering battery...

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Home Alone 2: Lost in New York

Daniel Stern · 20TH CENTURY FOX

John Hughes and Chris Columbus repeat their best-selling formula from the first Home Alone film with this sequel. Once again Kevin McCallister's (Macaulay Culkin) family leave him behind, only now he gets on a flight to New York instead of going with his family to Miami. Kevin manages...
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It's A Wonderful Life

James Stewart · Paramount

This is director Frank Capra's classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart) , the eternally-in-debt guiding force of a bank in the typical American small town of Bedford Falls. As the film opens, it's Christmas Eve, 1946, and George, who has long considered himself...
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Scrooged

Richard Donner · Paramount
Format: DVD

A darkly comic and surreal contemporization of Charles Dickens's A Christmas Carol, this effects-heavy Bill Murray holiday vehicle from 1988 sees the former SNL funnyman assuming the role of television executive Frank Cross, the meanest and most depraved man on earth. Cross will stoop...
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Rudolph the Red Nosed Reindeer: 50th Anniversary

Burl Ives · Anderson Merchandisers / Classic Media
Format: DVD

Rudolph becomes a hero when he guides Santa through the storm and enables him to deliver Christmas presents to the world.
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