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The Untouchables
- featuring Kevin Costner as
Eliot Ness, Sean Connery as Jim Malone and Robert De Nero
as Al Capone. Eliot Ness tells Jim Malone... "I want to hurt
Capone... I want to take the battle to him", to which Jim Malone
replies, "Well then, Merry Christmas". That is a complete
unseasonal
non sequitur!
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Unconditional Love -
After her husband, Max Beasley (Dan
Aykroyd) leaves her, Grace Beasley (Kathy Bates) travels to
London for the funeral of the pop star, Victor Fox (Jonathan Pryce),
she's adored all her life. There, she meets Dirk Simpson (Rupert
Everett), lover of the dead pop star, and convinces him to come back
to Chicago with her to figure out who killed the singer. Very
early in the movie there is a phone-in contest for tickets for the
Victor Fox TV Christmas Special!
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The Young Lions
- with Marlon Brando, Montgomery Cliff and Dean Martin.
At the outset of the WW 2 movie a young Nazi soldier tells the occupants
of the vehicle he's travelling in as it entered a small French town... "I
promised my father that's I'd shoot a Frenchman -- Christmas Eve it was."
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You've Got Mail
- with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks - 10 minutes of Christmas about
three-quarters through - she decorates the window of her store with Joni
Mitchell's River playing in the background.
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Vice Versa
- with Judge Reinhold as Marshall Seymour and Fred Savage
as Charlie Seymour - opens with a school Christmas pageant and
there is a tree at Marshall's apartment when Charlie comes for a visit...
A mysterious oriental skull transforms a father into his son, and vice
versa.
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Wall Street
- featuring Charlie Sheen as Bud Fox and Michael Douglas
as Gordon Gekko. Douglas makes the comment about a colleague
businessman, "If he ran a funeral parlour nobody would die...
Christmas is over... destroy the son of a bitch!" A completely
irrelevant reference to the Yuletide season!
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Warm Springs
- featuring Kenneth Branagh as FDR and Cynthia Nixon as
Eleanor Roosevelt (before he was Governor of New York and President of the
United States) in this made-for-television film; after contracting polio
Roosevelt finds himself at Warm Springs, a Spa in Georgia. He
returns to NYC for Christmas as the resort staff take the annual vacation
time break.
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When Harry met Sally
- featuring Billy Crystal there is a Christmas - New Years scene towards the end of the movie.
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While You Were
Sleeping with Sandra Bullock is set at Christmas
time
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White Light Dark
Rain - HBO Documentary - commentary on August 6 and August
9 destruction of Hiroshima and Nagasaki - begins with
Christmas carols and a shopping center with holiday trimmings, Santas and
Christmas Trees! Over three quarters of Japanese were not born when
the Americans dropped the bombs and shockingly the young did not remember
what significant event happened in 1945!
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Will Penny
with Charleton Heston (an aging cowboy on a hard-luck streak),
Jean Hackett and Donald Pleasence... nesters teach this cow
hand Christmas Carols in a cabin on the range.
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The Wrong Man
- Alfred Hitchcock's thriller featuring Henry Fonda as Manny.
When Manny walks through the grocery store at the direction of the
police detective, the clerk at the cash comments to his assistant, "Do
you recognize him? No of course not, you weren't here Christmas
Eve."
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Zodiac
- with Jake Gyllenhaal and Robert Graysmith and Robert Downey
Jr. as Paul Avery. A San Francisco cartoonist becomes an amateur
detective obsessed with tracking down the Zodiac killer. Note is
passed on to the editor of the San Francisco Examiner saying: "I am the
murderer of the two teenagers last Christmas..."
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