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Publisher
[publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Deep in the heart of the English countryside lays the enchanting village of Gladbury. Legend has it every twenty-five years an angel visits the village candle maker and touches a single candle. Whoever lights the Christmas Candle will receive a miracle on Christmas Eve. But in 1890, at the dawn of the electric age, this centuries old legend may come to an end. When David Richmond, a progressive young minister from London arrives in Gladbury the villagers...
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
When Sara Shaw's big idea for a Christmas initiative is stolen, she makes a wish to Santa that she'll finally have the courage to stand up for herself. Santa grants her wish but only gives her 48 hours. When she reveals to Peter Williams, the handsome owner of the company, that her boss stole her idea, she can't help but wonder if the wish is actually working. As time runs out on Sara's wish, she'll have to find a way to channel the magic and speak...
Publisher
Lionsgate
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
It follows the Cooper clan as four generations of extended family come together for their annual Christmas Eve celebration. As the evening unfolds, a series of unexpected visitors and unlikely events turn the night upside down, leading them all toward a surprising rediscovery of family bonds and the spirit of the holiday.
Publisher
BBC
Pub. Date
2011
Language
English
Description
Collection includes: All Creatures Great & Small S2, Ep. 14 Merry Gentlemen; Ballykissangel Christmas 1997 Happy as a Turkey on Boxing Day; Monarch of the Glen: Hogmanay Special; Lovejoy: The Prague Sun; Lark Rise to Candleford Christmas.
The holiday spirit is in the air in these five heart-warming BBC specials from All Creatures Great and Small, Ballykissangel, Monarch of the Glen Lovejoy, and Lark Rise from Candleford, this unique set of charming...
11) Beyond Christmas
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2004]
Language
English
Description
While three elderly businessmen are having a Christmas Eve dinner, they are visited by two kind-hearted strangers who return their wallets. The men are all killed in a blizzard, but return to Earth as the couple's guardian angels.
12) Scrooged
Series
Publisher
Paramount Pictures
Pub. Date
c1999
Language
English
Description
Modern version of Dickens' A Christmas Carol, with Bill Murray portraying a nasty, uncaring, unforgiving TV network president. On Christmas Eve he is visited by three ghosts who show him the error of his ways.
13) Four Christmases
Publisher
New Line Video
Pub. Date
2009
Language
English
Description
When happily unmarried San Francisco couple Kate and Brad find themselves socked in by fog on Christmas morning, their exotic vacation plans morph into the family-centric holiday they had, until now, gleefully avoided. Out of obligation, and unable to escape, they trudge to not one, not two, but four relative-choked festivities.
Publisher
Dream Machine Animation
Pub. Date
[2019]
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas time, and Santa has just finished his worldwide gift deliveries, when an unthinkable tragedy strikes! His most trusted reindeer, Marshmallow, has forgotten an entire planet! Now Santa must travel through space to bring holiday cheer to distant aliens all the while steering clear of his evil brother who intends to stop him from succeeding.
Publisher
Home Box Office
Pub. Date
[2005]
Language
English
Description
A widower not wanting to face her first Christmas alone responds to an ad for 'social introductions.' He meets a woman who is happy to celebrate the holidays with him provided that he not ask about her personal life that could change both of their lives.
Publisher
A&E Television Networks, LLC
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Lonely Grumpy Cat lives in a mall pet shop where she never gets chosen by customers. One day during the holidays, a very special twelve-year-old girl named Chrystal enters the pet store and falls in love with Grumpy. The two form a special friendship when Chrystal discovers she is the only person who can hear this feline talk. Will Grumpy Cat finally learn the true meaning of Christmas?
Publisher
Universal
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Drew Latham is a wealthy executive leading an empty, shallow life. Facing another lonely Christmas ahead, Drew wants to revisit his old childhood home and possibly relive some of his old holiday memories. But when he arrives, he finds that the house where he was raised is now no longer the home he grew up in. Owned by another family, Drew offers a nice financial reward that has the family all a buzz. But is Drew's generous cash offer only the beginning...
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