Posts Tagged ‘santa-claus’

The Apartment (1960)

Monday, April 21st, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Romance
Countries: USA
Actors: Jack Lemmon | Shirley MacLaine | Fred MacMurray | Ray Walston | Jack Kruschen | David Lewis | Hope Holiday | Joan Shawlee | Naomi Stevens | Johnny Seven | Joyce Jameson | Willard Waterman | David White | Edie Adams | Benny Burt
Directors: Billy Wilder
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On 1st November 1959, in New York, C.C. “Bud” Baxter is a popular clerk of “Consolidate Life”, an insurance company with 31,259 employees. The secret of his success is a well located apartment where he lives that he sublets for his superiors, making him climb to the executive position of 2nd Administrative Assistant very early. He likes the elevator girl Fran Kubelik, a reserved woman considered a “jackpot” among the executives. Fran is the secret lover of the director Jeff D. Sheldrake, a married man that seduced her convincing that he will divorce his wife to stay with her. When Fran tries to commit suicide in Baxter’s apartment after a meeting with Jeff, she stays with Baxter while recovering, and he falls in love for her. Later he has to come up to a decision between his excellent position in the company and his love.

Rudolph, the Red-Nosed Reindeer (1964)

Monday, April 14th, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Burl Ives | Billie Mae Richards | Paul Soles | Larry D. Mann | Stan Francis | Paul Kligman | Janet Orenstein | Alfie Scopp | Carl Banas | Corinne Conley | Peg Dixon
Directors: Kizo Nagashima
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Sam the snowman tells us the story of a young red-nosed reindeer who, after being ousted from the reindeer games because of his beaming honker, teams up with Hermey, an elf who wants to be a dentist, and Yukon Cornelius, the prospector. They run into the Abominable Snowman and find a whole island of misfit toys. Rudoph vows to see if he can get Santa to help the toys, and he goes back to the North Pole on Christmas Eve. But Santa’s sleigh is fogged in. But when Santa looks over Rudolph, he gets a very bright idea…

Black Christmas (2006)

Friday, April 11th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Katie Cassidy | Michelle Trachtenberg | Lacey Chabert | Kristen Cloke | Andrea Martin | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Crystal Lowe | Oliver Hudson | Jessica Harmon | Leela Savasta | Kathleen Kole | Karin Konoval | Robert Mann | Dean Friss | Cainan Wiebe
Directors: Glen Morgan
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Not all Christmas stories are full of cheer - take the disturbing childhood of Billy Lenz, for example. Born during Christmas, little Billy Lenz suffered from Jaundice because of a liver defect, and was unwanted by his cruel mother (who only saw the husband she’d come to despise when she looked at her son). While she let her true feelings be known to him with beatings and abuse, only his father showed him compassion like a parent should. But on Christmas Eve in 1975, his unfaithful mother gave him one of the most cruelest gifts of all, as she made five-year-old Billy observe his beloved father’s brutal murder at her own hands and those of her lover with a claw hammer. Before burying him under the house, she locked Billy in the attic for good, to hold his silence of what he’d witnessed that night. His only contact from then on was when she came to punish him for making a noise or other such trivial nuisances, while she was with her lover and starting a “new” family. As Billy’s mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic on Christmas Eve 1991, taking a rolling pin to his mother’s head, and a pointed tree ornament to her lovers eye before leaving his sister as disfigured as he was by blinding her. Before he could finish the job police forced there way in and dragged him off to mental institution and his sister a foster home, whose eye sight was saved in one eye… but not the other. Cut to the present where a security guard has been monitoring Billy’s progress since he came into his care, back in 1991. Knowing full well that during this time for fifteen years, Billy has made a break from this asylum, but never succeeding… until now. Far away, his childhood home is now a sorority house, where nine sisters and their house-mother are celebrating the holiday season together …but tonight they’re about to get a surprise visitor… and it’s not Santa.

Trading Places (1983)

Friday, February 22nd, 2008
Genres: Comedy
Countries: USA
Actors: Denholm Elliott | Dan Aykroyd | Maurice Woods | Richard D. Fisher Jr. | Jim Gallagher | Anthony DiSabatino | Bonnie Behrend | Sunnie Merrill | James Newell | Mary St. John | Bonnie Tremena | David Schwartz | Ralph Bellamy | Don Ameche | Tom Degidon
Directors: John Landis
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Louis Winthorpe III is a successful Philadelphia commodity broker with mansion, manservant and girlfriend to match. Billy Ray Valentine is a hustling beggar. Winthorpe’s employers, the elderly Duke brothers, make a bet that by switching the lifestyle of the two Billy Ray will make good and their man will take to a life of crime. Suddenly Louis finds himself uncomprehendingly with no job, no home and only a new acquaintance, glamorous hooker Ophelia, prepared to help him. So at least in one way things could actually be worse.

Home Alone (1990)

Sunday, February 10th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Macaulay Culkin | Joe Pesci | Daniel Stern | John Heard | Roberts Blossom | Catherine O'Hara | Angela Goethals | Devin Ratray | Gerry Bamman | Terrie Snell | Hillary Wolf | Larry Hankin | Michael C. Maronna | Kristin Minter | Daiana Campeanu
Directors: Chris Columbus
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Kevin McAllister, 8 years old is accidentally left behind while his family rushes to the Airport to go to France for their Christmas vacation. Kevin learns that he made his family is gone. He spends his first day having fun in his house. Kevin learns that Mav and Harry (The Wet Bandits), two crooks are trying to rob his house. Kevin fends for himself and protects his house from the thieves, by setting traps everywhere. Meanwhile, Kevin’s mother discovers that they left Kevin in Chicago and tries to go back to Chicago while the other members of the family stay in Fance.

Prancer (1989)

Tuesday, December 4th, 2007
Genres: Drama | Family
Countries: USA
Actors: Sam Elliott | Cloris Leachman | Rutanya Alda | Abe Vigoda | Michael Constantine | Rebecca Harrell | John Duda | Ariana Richards | Mark Rolston | Johnny Galecki | Walter Charles | Victor Truro | Marcia Porter | Loren Janes | Shirley Starnes
Directors: John D. Hancock
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Jessica, the daughter of an impoverished apple farmer, still believes in Santa Claus. So when she comes across a reindeer with an injured leg, it makes perfect sense to her to assume that it is Prancer, who had fallen from a Christmas display in town. She hides the reindeer in her barn and feeds it cookies, until she can return it to Santa. Her father finds the reindeer an decides to sell it to the butcher, not for venison chops, but as an advertising display.

Elf (2003)

Sunday, May 6th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Will Ferrell | James Caan | Bob Newhart | Edward Asner | Mary Steenburgen | Zooey Deschanel | Daniel Tay | Faizon Love | Peter Dinklage | Amy Sedaris | Michael Lerner | Andy Richter | Kyle Gass | Artie Lange | Claire Lautier
Directors: Jon Favreau
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Buddy (Will Ferrell) was a baby in an orphanage who stowed away in Santa’s sack and ended up at the North Pole. Later, as an adult human who happened to be raised by elves, Santa allows him to go to New York City to find his birth father, Walter Hobbs (James Caan). Hobbs, on Santa’s naughty list for being a heartless jerk, had no idea that Buddy was even born. Buddy, meanwhile, experiences the delights of New York City (and human culture) as only an elf can. When Walter’s relationship with Buddy interferes with his job, he is forced to reevaluate his priorities.

Reindeer Games (2000)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Action | Crime | Drama | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Ben Affleck | Gary Sinise | Charlize Theron | Dennis Farina | James Frain | Donal Logue | Danny Trejo | Isaac Hayes | Gordon Tootoosis | Dana Stubblefield | Clarence Williams III | Mark Acheson | Tom Heaton | Michael Sunczyk | Douglas Arthurs
Directors: John Frankenheimer
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After being imprisoned for six years on a grand theft auto charge, Rudy Duncan (Ben Affleck) and his cellmate Nick (James Frain) are finally going to be paroled. After hearing endless stories during his incarceration of Nick’s romantic correspondence to a woman named Ashley he has never met (Charlize Theron), Rudy is looking forward to returning to his family and having a fresh cup of hot chocolate. When Nick is killed during a prison riot, Rudy decides to assume Nick’s identity upon release from prison and meet up with the unknown woman. Burdened with a base knowledge of Nick’s Indian casino employment past, Rudy finds himself in too deep with Ashley’s brother Gabriel (Gary Sinise) and is violently forced to cooperate with a casino robbery that Gabriel and his gang have been planning with Nick in mind.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)

Saturday, May 5th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Jim Carrey | Taylor Momsen | Jeffrey Tambor | Christine Baranski | Bill Irwin | Molly Shannon | Clint Howard | Josh Ryan Evans | Mindy Sterling | Rachel Winfree | Rance Howard | Jeremy Howard | T.J. Thyne | Lacey Kohl | Nadja Pionilla
Directors: Ron Howard
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Based on the book by the famous Dr. Seuss. Inside a snowflake exists the magical land of Whoville. In Whoville, live the Who’s, an almost mutated sort of munchkinlike people. All the Who’s love Christmas, yet just outside of their beloved Whoville lives the Grinch. The Grinch is a nasty creature that hates Christmas, and plots to steal it away from the Whos which he equally abhors. Yet a small child, Cindy Lou Who, decides to try befriend the Grinch.

Bad Santa (2003)

Wednesday, March 28th, 2007
Genres: Comedy | Crime
Countries: Germany | USA
Actors: Billy Bob Thornton | Tony Cox | Brett Kelly | Lauren Graham | Lauren Tom | Bernie Mac | John Ritter | Ajay Naidu | Lorna Scott | Harrison Bieker | Alex Borstein | Dylan Charles | Billy Gardell | Lisa Ross | Bryan Callen
Directors: Terry Zwigoff
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“Bad Santa” is the story of two conmen who go on a road trip to malls dressed as Santa and his elf. Rather than spreading good cheer, the duo’s motive is to rob each establishment, a strategy that becomes complicated when they encounter an 8-year-old who teaches them the true meaning of Christmas.