I know there's a cult following for these budget holiday shows. This time of year, my dearest friends and relatives constantly find ourselves always talking about our favorites. Anyone online can't help but notice the made-for-TV Christmas hype too. In this social media age hashtags are a flutter everywhere with made-for-TV holiday titles.
population-we™ readers, join me as I rank my Top 10 favorite made-for-TV Christmas movies according to cable networks, on-demand media and genres below:
Network: Hallmark Movie Channel
Genre: Historical
Plot Summary: "Silent Night" (2012) is the true 1818 story behind the popular Christmas carol, Silent Night. In a small Austrian town, a young new assistant priest tries to bring the church closer to the common people but instead clashes with his superior. In the end, the young priest embraces the true significance of the Holy Night.
Genre: Family
Plot Summary: "Moonlight & Mistletoe" (2008) finds a Boston toy executive returning home to help out her dad after a fall. She finds the all-year Christmas village, Santaville, outdated and near bankruptcy. Watch as the main character is whisked away in a love triangle between a shy woodworker and financial advisor.
Network: ABC Family
Genre: Comedy
Plot Summary: "Kristin's Christmas Past" (2013) is set around a time traveling 30-year-old who winds up in Christmas past offering advice to her younger self.
Network: Lifetime
Genre: Family
Plot Summary: "Christmas in Paradise" (2007) follows two families looking to escape bad holiday memories by vacationing over Christmas at a Caribbean resort. In the process, both families come together and learn some Puerto Rican culture as well as the magical Christmas story of the three kings.
Network: ABC Family
Genre: Romance
Plot Summary: "A Holiday for Love" (1996) unrolls as a business executive is sent to a small town to assess which of the workers in a local factory should get laid off but instead falls in love with a single mom.
On Demand: Netflix
Genre: Historical
Plot Summary: "Silent Night" (2002) is a fact-based World War II story set on 1944 Christmas Eve, which finds a German mom and son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. When she is invaded by three American and German soldiers; she successfully convinces the soldiers to put aside their differences for one evening and share a Christmas dinner.
Plot Summary: "Silent Night" (2002) is a fact-based World War II story set on 1944 Christmas Eve, which finds a German mom and son seeking refuge in a cabin on the war front. When she is invaded by three American and German soldiers; she successfully convinces the soldiers to put aside their differences for one evening and share a Christmas dinner.
Network: Hallmark
Genre: Romance
Genre: Romance
Plot Summary: "A Holiday Engagement" (2011) dumped by her fiancé she may or may not find true love when she hires an actor to pose as her fiancé for the holidays.
Network: ABC Family
Genre: Comedy
Plot Summary: "Christmas in Handcuffs" is the tale of a desperate woman who literally kidnaps & handcuffs a stranger and parades him as her boyfriend at her parent's house for Christmas.
Network: Lifetime
Genre: Action Adventure
Plot Summary: "Special Delivery" (2008) follows a bonded courier in the Pacific Rim who is tasked with delivering a 15-year-old teenager to her mom by Christmas. Based mostly in Hawaii, this babysitting detail turns into a Magnum PI episode with plot twists throughout.
Network: ABC Family
Genre: Action/Adventure
Plot Summary: "Christmas Bounty" (2013) puts a twist into the typical love triangle scene. A former bounty hunter turned school teacher determined to keep her past a secret finds herself rushed back into the family business. At the same time she struggles with feelings for her new Manhattan man and former New Jersey bounty hunter boyfriend. A lot of action scenes in this movie.
I guarantee, nothing makes the holiday stress melt away faster than watching made-for-TV holiday movies. So, merry made-for-TV Christmas movie watching!
(Editor's note: Plans are to make this an annual listing. So, remember to check back again the same time next year!)
-population-we™ blog post by Becky Bohan Brown
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I do enjoy watching Christma movies. Some movies make for a nice evening but are really more of a one time viewing pleasure. Others can be watched multiple times and you feel enriched as you see them more. Some of the watch again movies: Silent Night(mom and I watched on BYUtv) Season of Miracles with Patty Duke and a great all around cast. I've seen this so many times including in the off season. I love the part of the children jumping on the bed.(won't give away spoilers). I love other parts to but won't give away. I think it was a Hallmark Hall of Fame A new movie this year worth seeing again is Pete's Christmas. I know you feel like you are watching it more than once as you watch it as it is like Ground Hog Day. It is a Hallmark..Undercover Christmas is a sweet one that I think was by Lifetime. Oh, the list can go on...
ReplyDeleteBarb: Thanks for the viewing suggestions. Now I have some to watch and see if they'll be worthy for next year's Top 10 Made-for-TV Christmas movies listing!
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