-
101 Dalmatians
- has Christmas in it.
-
4.50 from
Paddington - with Joan Hickson as Miss Marple in an
Agatha Christie mystery; at the beginning of the film a Christmas carol
tune is heard over the crowd and steam locomotives in Paddington Station
as the Christmas holidays commence!
About a Boy - the movie ends with a
big get-together at Christmas. Also, the reason Hugh Grant's
character is so wealthy is because his father wrote a overplayed
Christmas song ("Santa's Super Sleigh", which is played throughout the
movie)!
About Schmidt - with Jack
Nicholson in the title role. When Jack visits his future
in-law's home a seasonal festive bow is featured on the door.
All Fall Down - (a black and
white film from 1962) with Warren Beatty, Karl Malden and
Angela Lansbury. A tired Christmas tree prop is in the
window in a gas station in Florida; the radio is on and the announcer
says "Only seven more shopping days till Christmas" and then "Good King
Wenceslas" plays as a tune and Berry-Berry Willart (Warren Beatty)
goes out to pump some gas. The motif carries through when Beatty
heads north, and the conflict heightens.
Anne of Green
Gables - has a Christmas scene where Anne is allowed to go
to the ball. That movie is so long though that I think all seasons and
holidays are covered.
The Apartment -
featuring Jack Lemon and Shirley McLaine
A Simple Twist of
Fate - written by Steve Martin (loosely after
Eliot's "Silas Marner") and featuring Steve Martin in the lead
role; the Senator's front yard is decorated with white Christmas Lights as
snow is falling when tragic news breaks the merriment of the Yuletide
party.
Autumn in New York
- has a Christmas scene at the end of the movie as the main character is
dying.
The Aviator
- with Leonardo De Caprio
- Robert Gross walks in and they
mention that Howard Hughes is working on Christmas day. When they
make their deal on the new Continental aircraft design, Gross says "Merry
Christmas!"
Babe... a little
pig goes a long way! - in this story of an unprejudiced
heart, Farmer Hoggett and his wife are surprised with a fax machine for
Christmas from their daughter and son-in-law.
Babe
- Pig in the City (another good example of why sequels
don't always work!) Babe is in a cat carrier on the way to the big city
and he is humming "Jingle Bells" (they were trying to capitalize on the
success of the first movie, obviously... but it is still Christmas theme.
Batman Returns
- featuring Michael Keaton (as Batman), Danny DeVito
(as Penguin) Michelle Pfeiffer (as Catwoman) and
Christopher Walken (as Max Shreck) . Lighting of
the Christmas Tree in Gotham City sets the stage for the need for
electricity and power.
Battle of the
River Plate - (in the United States the film was retitled
Pursuit of the Graf Spee) - featuring
Anthony Quayle as Commodore
Harwood, with Ian Hunter as Captain Woodhouse commanding the
Ajax, John Gregson as Captain Bell of the Exeter,
Jack Gwillim as Captain Parry of the Achilles and Peter
Finch as Captain Langsdorff of the Graf Spee.
Comment to British Naval Officer while taking a tour of the pocket
battleship, "We're taking you home for Christmas." Later the sailors
arrive with gifts for the seamen while singing Silent Night.
Behind Enemy Lines
- featuring Owen Wilson and Gene Hackman. A Navy pilot
is shot down over Bosnia on Christmas Day! Could have been any day!
But no!
The Badge
- starring Billy Bob Thornton as the Sheriff is set at Christmas
time, decorated trees, lights, music and several Christmas greetings
exchanged. Christmas doesn't add anything to the murder-mystery but
it is much more than a passing reference.
Beaches
- starring Bette Midler had a Christmas scene with the two main
characters singing carols to each other as they were going to sleep.
(Didn't have much to do with the main story)
-
Billy Elliot
- there was a Christmas scene which emphasized the poverty throughout the
town. (due to the mining strike) Billy's Dad had to break up their piano
in order to get wood for the fire. Later on that same night, the Dad was
drinking with some of his friends and caught Billy dancing with his friend
in the local rec centre. I think it was at this point, the father finally
realized how important dancing was to Billy.
-
Bobby
- featuring Harry Belafonte as Nelson and Joy Bryant as
Patricia - The story of the assassination of U.S. Senator Robert F.
Kennedy who was shot in the early morning hours of June 5, 1968 in the
Ambassador Hotel in Los Angeles, and 22 people in the hotel whose lives
were never the same. At one point a hairdresser says... "You couldn't even
carry a tune... not even a Christmas carol." Doesn't add
anything to the plot of a July event!
The Bourne Identity - when they
arrive at the farm house, Christmas lights and a tree are visible.
Bowling for Columbine
- in Northern Michigan the camera pans the landscape and
picks up a ubiquitous commercial sign with the message,
"Lay Away for Christmas"
Boyton Beach Club
- with Joseph Bologna and Dyan Cannon - an "active
seniors'" support group with an appearance by "Santa" with his
red-and-white jacket and shorts for the Florida climate... and the
background music "Santa Baby" as couples suffer from separation angst as
the New Year's Eve dance approaches.
Bridget Jones'
Diary - there is a reference to Christmas made when Bridget
is describing her karaoke escapade at the work Christmas party. Now that I
think about it the movie actually starts with Bridget attending her
parents Christmas party.
Bridget Jones: The
Edge of Reason... featuring Renee Zellwigger and
Colin Firth characters attend another Xmas turkey curry party where
the lead characters wear silly Xmas sweaters.
-
Brown Sugar
- Sidney and Dre and Kelby and Reese wrestle with their relationships at a
New Year's party in Sidney's apartment with a lighted Christmas Tree in
the bay window!
-
Cast Away
- begins at Christmas when Tom Hanks' character is called away from
his family dinner.
-
A Christmas Story -
Gene Shepherd's classic story - the movie featuring Darin Mcgavin
-
The Crew
- featuring Richard Dreyfuss as Bobby, is a story of 4 elderly wise
guys, and in once scene passes a snap shot of his daughter saying, "Olivia
was just 5 that Christmas." Later, the "Brick" reprimands Bobby had
he only "sent out Christmas cards." Still later the 4 wise guys use
the "Brick's" Christmas card list to enlist help rescuing Olivia - held
captive by a Columbian drug lord.
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Das Boot
- the Captain and Officers aboard the supply ship in Spain enjoy Christmas
cake in the Wardroom decorated for Christmas and with seasonal music
playing in the background. The submarine is loaded with bananas and
a Christmas tree!
-
Dead Calm
- with Nicole Kidman and Sam Neill aboard their boat on a
becalmed Pacific with Billy Zane providing the threat in this
thriller set at Christmas time: the movie begins with Sailors wishing
their Captain (Sam Neill) a ‘Merry Christmas’ as they begin shore
leave at the train station.
-
Diehard 1 & 2
- both take place during Christmas... In
Diehard 1 Bruce Willis lands in L.A. and as he is
de-planning, the stewardess wishes everyone "Merry Christmas".
-
Diehard With a
Vengeance - with Bruce Willis (as John McClane),
Jeremy Irons (as Simon Gruber) and Samuel L. Jackson (as Zeus
Carver); McClane and Carver in the park with the elephant fountain, a kid
tells McClane, "It's Christmas, you steal City Hall!" ... only this
is, it's not Christmas! In the aqueduct McClane alludes to 8
reindeer and a guy in a red and white suit after he overtakes and shoots
the drivers of a dump truck filled with gold!
-
Doctor Zhivago
- featuring Omar Sharif as Dr Zhivago, Julie Christie as
Laura, Geraldine Chaplain as Tonya, Rod Steiger as
Komarovsky. Lara shoots Komarovsky (her seducer) at the Christmas
Party. A Christmas Tree with candles is featured at the event when
Dr Zhivago's engagement to Toyna is announced.
-
Donnie Braskco
- with Johnny Depp and Al Pacino - tells him to go home,
that it's Christmas.
-
Driving Miss Daisy
- featuring Morgan Freeman as the chauffer. Miss Daisy gives
her driver a Christmas present.
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Dying Young
- there is a Christmas scene at the end of the movie when Julia Roberts
character is trying to convince the man she loves (who has leukemia) to go
back to the hospital.
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Emperor of the
North - with Lee Marvin as the ‘Emperor’ hobo and
Ernest Borgnine as the Rail Road Conductor on Number 19... “You’ll get
a Christmas present in October” one hobo tells another as they council
around a engine... not a snowflake anywhere to be seen throughout the
entire flick!
-
The English Patient - There is a Christmas
party in the middle of the desert for the British folks living there. It
is an opportunity for
Ralph Fiennes to have another sordid encounter with the woman.
-
Entrapment - the movie is centered
around the millennium new year, but there's a scene where Sean
Connery gives Catherine Zeta-Jones a dress and says "Merry
Christmas." She then rushes off, saying she forgot to get him a
gift.
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Eyes Wide Shut - featuring is
set at Christmas time and a Christmas tree is featured prominently in
the living room.
-
The Family Man -
featuring Nicholas Cage - a take off on the Christmas Story
-
For love Of The
Game : Kevin Costner and Kelly Preston
celebrate Christmas with her daughter in one of his flashbacks while he
is pitching a "Perfect Game".
-
The Gathering Storm - featuring
Albert Finney as Winston Churchill - has a Christmas tree scene
when Ava and Charlie return home in a light snow fall, and the next
morning Ava's husband, Ralph, is dead on the bathroom floor.
-
Ghost Busters
- with Bill Murray and Dan Akeroyd - a bit of Christmas
breaks into Ghost Busters when our heroes are in jail and one or two of
them begin singing "He knows if you've been naughty or nice" etc etc...;
it sort of comes right out of nowhere and as suddenly is gone and the plot
moves on.
-
The Godfather (1)
- Tom (played by Robert Duvall) is "escorted" into a waiting car
by the family gang rival just as he steps out of a store with a bow tied
sled while "You better watch out" (from Santa Claus is Coming To Town)
is sung in the store's loud speaker system.
-
Gore Vidal's Billy
the Kid - with Val Kilmer as Billy and Duncan
Regehr as Pat Garrett ... where Billy and his gang is tracked into the
high country by Pat and his posse and one of the outlaws figures out it is
Christmas Day and begins to reminisce on an earlier Christmas ... moments
before Charlie is shot.
-
The Ghost and the Darkness
- Michael Douglas rides up to who is in a tree,
waiting for the lion man-eater. Out of the blue, Douglas says to
Val Kilmer, "Merry Christmas"
-
Glory
- featuring Matthew Broderick, Denzel Washington and
Morgan Freeman - Marching into a Negro Union camp, the 54th Massachusetts
Black Company is in uniform and Sgt Maj John Rawlings (Morgan Freeman)
comments "Every day is like Christmas" when he translates a
southern black colloquialism for his comrade. Later, a reporter
tells Col Robert Gould Shaw (Matthew Broderick) that Lee turned
back and "it'll all be over by Christmas!"
-
The Great Escape
- with Steve McQueen, James Garner et al - the prisoner of
war inmates sing "O Come All Ye Faithful" as a ruse while the air duct is
being constructed for the escape tunnel... and "the 12 Days of Christmas"
while the rafters and bunks are being scavenged for lumber for the tunnel!
-
Gremlins
has a Christmas sick joke.
-
Grumpy Old Men
- with Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, Burgess Meredith
and Ann-Margaret - the main street and interior of the drug store
is festooned with garland and Christmas decorations with seasonal
background music - adding nothing substantive to the winter tale plot.
-
Guarding Tess
- with Shirley McLane and Nicolas Cage. The reference to
Christmas was small and took place when Shirley's character was feeling
depressed and was in bed while flipping through the TV channels - I
believe there was Christmas music playing on the TV.
-
Harry Potter
- has the Great Hall decorated with Christmas trees.
-
High Crimes
- featuring Ashley Judd and Morgan Freeman. Ashley
Judd and Morgan Freeman defend her ex-Marine husband of past war crimes
coincidently over Christmas with houses decorated and poinsettias.
Ashley Judd has a miscarriage and while in hospital is greeted with a
"Merry Christmas"! Adds nothing to the otherwise suspenseful movie!
-
Hook
- featuring
Robin Williams as the grown up Peter Pan. A large Christmas
tree is featured in the London living room.
-
Home Alone
- and sequels - set at Christmas, but the hero could have been left alone
at home anytime!
-
Identity -
featuring John Cussack - The group
at the motel enter the old closed up diner and there are Christmas
decorations around the posts of the room (tinsel of red and green).
The movie is set in May but the diner was all boarded up.
-
It's A Wonderful Life - with
James Stewart and Donna Reid.
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Joe Dirt
- with David Spade - Christmas lights on the door.
-
Jumanji
- with Robin Williams, dressed in a Santa Claus costume, closes
with a Christmas reception and the singing of "Hark the Herald Angels
Sing", and then "We Wish You a Merry Christmas" ... irrelevant to the
story line.
-
Ladybugs - with Rodney
Dangerfield: don't know if this counts, but after the Ladybugs win
their final game, there's a guy who looks A LOT like Santa Claus in the
background, cheering!
-
Ladder 49:
featuring John Travolta and Joaquin Phoenix... short scene
when firefighter Phoenix goes to mass on Xmas Eve.
-
Lethal Weapon
(the original) - there's a scene in a Christmas tree lot, Christmas
lights on houses, a Christmas tree in the Murtaugh's living room, and a
bit of carolling practice in the police station but the holiday isn't
essential to the story.
-
Life as a House
- featuring Kevin Kline and his ex-wife Kristin Scott Thomas
are interrupted by their son, played by Hayden Christensen who asks
his day if he wants the exterior Christmas lights on a separate switch.
When Kline is dying in hospital, Christensen staples stings of Christmas
lights on the incomplete house so it can be seen from the hospital room.
Nary a snowflake or Santa suit in sight!
-
Life
of David Gale
- featuring Kevin Spacey - David and his lawyer are in a bar
discussing custody of David's son and the lawyer remarks David will be
lucky to get a Christmas card!
-
Little Women
- starring Susan Sarandon has a famous Christmas scene where Beth
receives a piano from her neighbour. (This one may actually be important
to the storyline.)
-
Longford
- starring Jim Broadbent and Samantha Morton - A portrait of
Lord Longford, a tireless British campaigner whose controversial beliefs
often resulted in furious political debate and personal conflict...
features a Christmas dinner with “Crackers”, Paper hats and Tree.
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The Loved One
- featuring Robert Morse, Jonathan Winters and Anjanette Comer - Aimee
Thanatogenous (Anjanette
Comer), first lady embalmer of Whispering Glade, is chased down street
and lighted Christmas Tree forms decorate the lamp posts!
-
Maid in Manhatten
- featuring Ralph Fiennes and Jennifer Lopez - has a closing
scene with the background in the hotel featuring Christmas trees and
presents, but nothing to do the the story line!
-
Mermaids
- featuring Cher and Winona Ryder - when the move to the
Boston area Winona Ryder is setting up her Manger Scene and her little
sister asks why the Wisemen gave the baby Jesus "frankincense and birds".
-
Michael -
featuring John Travolta in the title role, begins with a "sleigh bells
ring" scene with Santa in a promotional photo-op following the crash of
the Bank of Commerce in the opening minutes of the film.
-
Midnight in the
Garden of Good and Evil - featuring Kevin Spacey and
John Cusack. At his Savannah mansion Christmas reception, Jim Williams (Kevin Spacey) works the crowd
with a "Merry Christmas to ya."
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Miracle on 34th
Street - with Natalie Wood.
-
Mrs Stoffel
- featuring Diane Keaton, Mel Gibson and Matthew Modine
- escape from death row has a scene highlighted with the Christmas tree
and candles.
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Molokai: The Story of
Father Damien - featuring David Wenham as Father Damien,
ministering to the lepers suffering from Hansen's Disease on Molokai;
includes a Christmas Eve Mass with a crèche shortly before he succumbs to
the disease that overtook him.
-
Mothman Prophecies
- featuring Richard Gere and Laura Linney - having just purchased their
new home, the couple have an accident with their car going out of control,
and in the background we see a house on the street with its veranda all
decked out in Christmas lights. Later, in the hospital, there is a
scene with the hallway decorated with trees and garland - adding
absolutely nothing to the story line!
-
Nobody's Fool
- featuring Paul Newman as Sully Sullivan, a rascally ne'er-do-well
approaching retirement age, and Jessica Tandy as Beryl Peoples,
Bruce Willis as Carl Roebuck and Melanie Griffith as Toby
Roebuck - set in Bath, running from Thanksgiving through Christmas. Wreath
on the door and lights in the Bar suggest Christmas but the plot is not
dependant on it. Sully discovers he's a grandfather, a father and a
friend.
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Normal
- featuring Tom Wilkinson and Jessica Lang - where Roy is
addressed by his Lutheran Pastor, "Roy, you're the only fella I can get to
nail together the Nativity every year - do you think I'm gonna let you go
that easy?" When Roy tells him that he is planning on having a sex change.
-
The Package
- featuring Gene Hackman as Sgt Johnny Gallagher, Tommy Lee
Jones as Thomas Boyette, and Joanna Cassidy as Lt.Col. Eileen
Gallagher - in a suspenseful but foiled plot to assassinate the Soviet
General Secretary; set in Chicago with Christmas Wreaths, Christmas Trees and
ubiquitous carols appearing throughout in a movie otherwise devoid of
Christmas!
-
Philadelphia
- featuring Tom Hanks and Denzel Washington. Just before Denzel Washington
decides to take the case, he is exiting a convenience store and Santa is
on the street ringing a hand bell and has a donation pot for Christmas
charity.
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The Preacher's
Wife - A black minister prays for help; the story
culminates at Christmas.
-
Presumed Innocent
- with Harrison Ford and John Spencer - When the woman
deputy prosecutor R.K. Sabich (Harrison Ford) had an affair with is
murdered the prosecutor asks him to lead the investigation. When Sabich
digs too deeply he finds himself framed for the murder. Acquitted,
Det Lipranzer (John Spencer) gives the "lost" piece of incriminating
evidence to Savich and says, "Here's your Christmas present."
Savich then throws the beer glass with his finger prints on it into the
river from the ferry.
-
The Proposition
- an Australian flick featuring Guy Pearce and Ray Winstone
- set in the 1880s... Mickie is being hung on Christmas Day and the Police
Captain's wife decorates for Christmas with a green tree and ornaments and
even sheets of cotton batten for snow.
-
The Quiet American
- featuring Michael Craine as Thomas Fowler, the British Journalist
and Brendan Fraser as Alden Pyle, the CIA Agent. Set in 1952
Viet Nam, half-way through the film Alden asks, "Have a good Christmas?"
with Thomas replying, "One long part." - Adding absolutely nothing to the
plot.
-
Raising Arizona
- featuring Nicholas Cage and Holly Hunter - in the closing scene Nicholas
Cage's character has a dream about Christmas in the Arizona family.
That it's holly wreathed and at Christmas doesn't add anything substantive
to the plot of the farce.
-
Random Hearts
- featuring Harrison Ford as "Dutch" and Kristin Scott as
Kay Chandler - shows Christmas wreathes and Santa lights at their reunion
in the airport in the close of the film.
-
The Ref
- with Denis Leary as a thief whose unsuccessful attempts go from
wrong to worse at Christmas time.
-
Reindeer Games -
has a recurring Christmas theme, but doesn't have much to do with Rudolph!
(filmed in Prince George, B.C. by the way)
-
Reversal of Fortune
- featuring Jeremy Irons and Glen Close - "a year later, just before
Christmas..." Claus von Bulow's wife is found in her bathroom in a coma.
By no means a Christmas flick! No other Yule tide in this
true-to-life drama. Von Bulow's first name is a bonus but not the
Christmas reference I'm pinning this on.
-
Ronin (1998) -
with Robert DeNiro and directed by John
Frankenheimer - there's a scene with a children's choir in front of a
Christmas Tree in this otherwise yuletide-free tale of crime and fast cars.
-
Rudy -
starring Sean Astin. There is a Christmas scene that isn't necessary.
Basically there is just a tree in the corner of his parents home when he
comes to visit - it is a short visit (about 5 minutes) before he got angry
and left again.
-
Saint Maybe
- with Thomas McCarthy and Jeffrey Nording - a college teen
becomes an instant father to his nieces and nephew following a series of
tragic events beginning at Christmas... carols, decorated trees, the
lot... and running through the Season but not dependant on it.
-
Serendipity -
begins at Christmas when the two main characters try and buy the same pair
of gloves.
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Session 9
- with David Caruso and Stephen Gevedon - tradesmen in an abandoned
psychiatric hospital are removing asbestos and are drawn into various
encounters with the past - including a tape of a psychiatrist who
repeatedly asks "Mary, what happened in Lowell 22 years ago on
Christmas...?"
-
Shaft - the
opening scene has the street decorated with lights and trees! No
other reference to Christmas and the plot isn't advanced with the setting.
-
Sleepless in Seattle
- with Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks - Christmas Eve and listening to the radio
in the car.
-
Spider -
starring Ralph Fiennes, directed by David Cronenberg: One time that Spider
is sitting in his room at Mrs. Wilkinson's, he sings along to "Silent
Night" on the radio for no particular reason.
-
Star Trek
Generations - there is a flashback scene that takes place
at Christmas.
-
Steel Magnolias
- with Julia Roberts and Sally Field has Christmas in it - I believe it
was during this scene that Julia's character announces she's pregnant
which upsets her mother terribly (Sally Field) considering she is a
diabetic. (The doctors said carrying the baby would cause too much strain
on the character's body.)
-
Stepmom -
starring Susan Sarandon and Julia Roberts, has a Christmas scene towards
the end of the movie. Susan's character is dying from cancer and takes the
time to make homemade gifts (a quilt and a cape) for her two children so
they will remember her. I think Hollywood just tried to get at your
emotions even more by including Christmas into the story.
-
Stepping Out
- featuring Liza Minnelli and Shelley Winters - has a Buffalo tap dance
troupe - the Mavis Turner Tappers - prepare for a stage presentation,
coincidentally at Christmas - with trees and decorations in the foyer of
the theatre. No other overt mention of the Yule season.
-
The Story on Page
One - starring Rita Hayworth - (a black and white
flick from the 50's) has her Mother at the kitchen table telling her: "You
sure got yourself one hell of a Christmas present." Nothing is
added to the murder-mystery with the Christmas reference.
-
Sweet Home Alabama - there
are repeated references to how Reese Witherspoon and Patrick Dempsey are
going to "spend Christmas in Ireland."
-
This Boy's Life - Before Dwight
Hansen (Robert DeNiro) takes Toby (Leonardo DiCaprio) to Concrete to
live with him, Caroline (Ellen Barkin) and Toby have an argument.
In this scene, Perry Como is singing on the TV and there is a decorated
Christmas tree in the background.
-
Three Days of the Condor -
featuring Robert Redford and Faye Dunaway; a band is
playing "Good King Wenceslas" when Condor (Redford) is phoning in
the hit on a pay phone; Nursing Station
has the ubiquitous aluminium Christmas Tree with "Joy to the World"
playing in the background.
-
Three Godfathers - directed by
John Ford, ends with a western version of the nativity.
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Tombstone
- featuring Kurt Russell as Wyatt Earp, Val Kilmer as Doc
Holiday and Dana Delany as Josephine Marcus. The closing
scene has Wyatt and Josephine dancing outside the theatre where Gilbert
and Sullivan's HMS Pinafore is playing - and the snow is falling
with the theatre decorated with evergreen garland! The only
winter/Christmas scene in the entire film!
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Toy Story-1 -
the main character (a cowboy toy named "Woody") is afraid of being replaced
by a new space toy.
-
True Crimes
- featuring Clint Eastwood. In the movie Clint is a recovering
alcoholic crime reporter who has lost his "Nose" for investigating due to
the alcohol and family problems. He gets one big chance to prove he still
has it as he investigates a case on death row of a man who he believes is
falsely accused of a murder. At the end of the movie (last scene) and the
viewer has no idea if the death row inmate survived (right down to the
wire sort of situation!) you see Clint Eastwood out in a street setting.
There is a Santa or Salvation Army guy ringing a bell - it is obviously
Christmas and he sees the formerly accused with his wife and child "free"
and happily Christmas shopping.
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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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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.
-
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.
presence...
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