Christmas Classics Lift Individual Holiday Spirits

With the upcoming holiday season and more people staying inside, especially due to the colder Wisconsin weather, many have completed their bucket list of movies; here are some Christmas classics fit to each individual’s enjoyment, even the whole family.

For a more comedic route, such as family movie night, stream Home Alone on Disney+. A Christmas with the McCallisters will bring a whole new meaning to family bonding in this holiday film where a child is left to fend for himself as robbers come to his neighborhood for the holidays. It gives joy to the viewers as they try to figure out how a child can come up with such an elaborate plan to defend his house when his entire family is states away.

Whereas a more sincere Christmas movie to enjoy could be the 1965 classic, A Charlie Brown Christmas, on PBS and Apple TV+. This story continues on with the life of the well-known Peanuts character, Charlie Brown, and his involvement with the school Christmas pageant. While he is known to get made fun of by his peers, this movie shares the classic scene of them coming together to sing around the tree and bring in the holiday spirit.

As always, Hallmark channel starts up their Christmas movies as soon as it turns November, so a hopeless romantic could indulge in one of their typical tales. This could be a single mom who works at a diner somehow runs into a prince of a small country and they fall in love. Or on the more realistic, yet still incredibly too good to be true, route Hallmark’s The Nine Lives of Christmas gets the job done.

This movie deals with two characters, as usual, where a veterinary school student and a fireman fall in love over the similarity of having cats and both being single and attractive. As always, Hallmark, it doesn’t make sense and can be incredibly cheesy, but it gets the job done.

Being the holiday season, Christmas movies help give people an extra sense of hope and joy for their lives to be as extravagant as the fictional realities on screen. While these expectations and life experiences depicted in these comedic and wholesome holiday films are not quite obtainable, watching them sure does make life more enjoyable.