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The holiday season is in full swing when a cultured gentleman with twinkling eyes, and ample belly, and a snowy bread is hired as Macy's department store Santa. He claims his name is Kris Kringle, and soon fills everyone with Christmas spirit; except for his boss, Doris Walker, who's raising her daughter to not believe in Santa. But when Kringle is declared insane, and put on trial, everyone's faith is put to the test.
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Follows three under appreciated and over burdened women as they rebel against the challenges and expectations of the Super Bowl for moms: Christmas. If creating a more perfect holiday for their families wasn't hard enough, they have to do all of that while hosting and entertaining their own mothers.
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A Christmas love story: The story of a youth choir director who needs to write a big song for a Christmas Eve show. She is distracted from her task when a boy with a golden voice joins her choir, which comes as a surprise to his widowed father.
Christmas at the plaza: With Christmas approaching in New York City, Jessica, an archival historian enmeshed in a declining romantic relationship, is hired to create an exhibition honoring the history of Christmas...
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Ebenezer Scrooge begins the Christmas holiday with his usual miserly contempt, barking at his faithful clerk and his cheery nephew. But when the ghosts of Christmas Past, Present, and Yet to Come take him on an eye-opening journey revealing truths Old Scrooge is reluctant to face, he must open his heart to undo years of ill will before it's too late.
46) The Grinch
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A re-telling of the classic tale about a grumpy old creature living in a cave on Mt. Crumpet who can't stand to see his neighbors in Whoville enjoying themselves. Things are especially bad at Christmas, when the Whos kick their merriment into high gear with fantastic celebrations. This year, the Grinch decides to dress up like Santa Claus on Christmas Eve and steal all the Christmas gifts and decorations so the Whos can't enjoy the season. What he...
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Inspired by the Christmas favorite, Prancer, Gloria (10, raised in the U.K.) and her recently widowed, American grandfather, Bud, befriend a mysterious reindeer. The extended family has gathered at Bud's rural northeastern home for Christmas and to decide where the cantankerous senior will spend his final years. When Bud comes to believe that the mischievous Prancer might actually be magical and Gloria fears that this will seal his fate to a retirement...
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Bob and Larry are preparing for their first Christmas show in Mr. Nezzer's theater, and the show seems to be headed for disaster. Bob begins to wonder how to celebrate christmas when everything is going wrong. It's when the Veggies go back to the very first Christmas, where times were tough, and things didn't seem to be working out, that they all earn the promise of Christmas, God is with them. It's a timeless story of hope that every family will...
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A Christmas miracle gives rival meteorologists Tara and Sam the opportunity of a lifetime to move up to the big leagues, but they must first beat an impending blizzard on their way to the city for an interview. Instead, they get stuck in the village of Mistletoe, where the holidays are no longer celebrated. Can they put aside their differences and bring Christmas back to a sleepy rural town.
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Mackenzie is sensible in life and has long since abandoned childhood dreams. When she inherits her aunt's beautiful-but-antiquated hotel, she decides the reasonable thing to do is put up for sale before Christmas. Little does she know the hotel plays an important role for Santa on Christmas Eve, and it now has the full Northpole's attention. Working alongside the hotel's handyman Ben, Mackenzie quickly finds herself in over her head, but her luck...
52) Arthur Christmas
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On Christmas at the North Pole, Santa's youngest son looks to use his father's high-tech operation for an urgent mission.
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Walt Disney animation collection volume 7
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Make the season merry as Mickey, Goofy, Donald, and all their pals star in a heartwarming retelling of Dickens' unforgettable holiday tale. Ebenezer Scrooge (Scrooge McDuck) is far too greedy to understand that Christmas is a time for kindness and generosity. But with the guidance of some wise ghosts (Goofy and Jiminy Cricket) and a bunch of newfound friends, Scrooge learns to embrace the spirit of the season.
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The Grinch was rejected by the Who's as a child and has been living in spiteful seculsion for most of his life. He has always hated the citizens of Whoville. That especially goes for Christmas with the Who's noise, phony sentiment and wasteful materialism. When little Cindy Lou Who attempts to transcend the festivities' empty commercialism by inviting the Grinch ends with his public humiliation, the Grinch hatches upon on his supreme scheme to ruin...
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When a little Douglas fir tree who loves Christmas more than anyone hears a TV newscast announce the search for the most famous Christmas tree, he knows he is meant to be that tree. With his friends Maisie the palm tree and Gene the weed, he embarks on a road trip adventure to make his dream come true. Along the way, they attract the attention of a villainous Christmas-loathing cactus named Pete.
57) The holiday
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Amanda lives in Los Angeles and is a movie trailer editor. Iris lives in Surrey, England and is a journalist. The two live five thousand miles apart and have never met, but both are dealing with the same problem: men. Amanda just broke up with her cheating boyfriend. Iris has pined for her ex. Amanda comes upon a website that advocates home exchange and the two decide to swap houses for two weeks at Christmas - both with a goal to forget their troubled...
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Izzy, a spunky nine year-old, gets left at school on the last day before Christmas break. While her parents brave a blizzard to reach her, three bumbling crooks break into the school to hide out until the heat dies down. But when they take Ray, the school janitor, hostage, Izzy will have to find a way to save him and teach the crooks a lesson.
59) Tangerine
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It's Christmas Eve in Tinseltown and Sin-Dee is back on the block. Upon hearing that her pimp boyfriend hasn't been faithful during the 28 days she was locked up, the working girl and her best friend, Alexandra, embark on a mission to get to the bottom of the scandalous rumor. Their rip-roaring odyssey leads them through various subcultures of Los Angeles.