The holidays are a time for big emotions.
The season truly has it all.
Is it even a Christmas movie if youre not bawling into your eggnog?
The most successful of them take big swings and hit us right where we live.
Its a Wonderful Life(1946)
Obviously.
It all somehow mostly holds together.
In dramatizing the event, the filmmakers understand that the truce was both glorious and absurd.
A small, inexperienced intelligence squad is sent to occupy an abandoned chateau to gather information on German movements.
She’s dying, and this younger woman will likely become a stepmother to her children.
Both the relationship between the two, and Jackie’s illness, come to a head at Christmas time.
you’re free to rentStepmomfromPrime Video.
Thats all before a botched bank robbery leaves their two kids with only one parent.
No life is ever perfect, I guess.
(Its all verythat-one-episode-of-Star Trek: The Next Generation.
)you might streamThe Family ManonNetflixandPeacock.
Its all beautifully hand-animated, and the genuine emotion wrings tears with Pixar-like efficiency.
I defy you not to cry during the final act.you could streamKlausonNetflix.
The two bond, and fall out, while transporting the body of a teenager whod died unexpectedly.
Merry Christmas!you could streamPranceronAMC+and MGM+.
