Your Holiday Watchlist – December 21st

For every Friday from now till Christmas, we’ll be showcasing a few of our picks for some of the best Holiday movies to add to your watchlist this season. So warm up your hot cocoa and get the fireplace roaring.. it’s time to get cozy and watch a holiday flick.

Meet Me in St Louis – G – 113 min – Classics, Drama, Kids & Family, Musical

Directed By: Vincente Minnelli
Written By: Irving Brecher, Fred F. Finklehoffe

Sally Benson’s short stories about the turn-of-the-century Smith family of St. Louis were tackled by a battalion of MGM screenwriters, who hoped to find a throughline to connect the anecdotal tales. After several false starts (one of which proposed that the eldest Smith daughter be kidnapped and held for ransom), the result was the charming valentine-card musical Meet Me in St. Louis.

It’s A Wonderful Life – PG – 135 min – Classics, Drama, Kids & Family, Science Fiction & Fantasy

Directed By: Frank Capra
Written By: Frank Capra, Frances Goodrich, Albert Hackett

This is director Frank Capra’s classic bittersweet comedy/drama about George Bailey (James Stewart), the eternally-in-debt guiding force of a bank in the typical American small town of Bedford Falls. As the film opens, it’s Christmas Eve, 1946, and George, who has long considered himself a failure, faces financial ruin and arrest and is seriously contemplating suicide. High above Bedford Falls, two celestial voices discuss Bailey’s dilemma and decide to send down eternally bumbling angel Clarence Oddbody (Henry Travers), who after 200 years has yet to earn his wings, to help George out.

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