Actors in the movies
At an inn which is open only on holidays, a crooner and a hoofer vie for the affections of a beautiful up-and-coming performer. Name the song and dance duo in this movie. Hint, one of them sings White Christmas and the other is a famous tapper.
Bing Crosby, Fred Astaire
In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie Parker attempts to convince his parents, teacher, and Santa Claus that a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift. This is from A Christmas Story. Ralph Parker was 9 and living in Indiana. That Christmas was memorable for: his contest-obsessed father winning a prize for the first time in his life, his father's constant battle with the furnace and the neighbor's dogs, and Ralphie and his friends Schwartz and Flick's changing battle with their primary bullies,. Name their bullies.
Scut Farkus and Grover Dill
Charlie Brown knows that he should be happy about Christmas, but he isn't. He knows that commercialism is the problem - his younger sister Sally's Christmas letter to Santa, and Snoopy entering a Christmas decorating contest with a cash prize - but he doesn't know what to do about it. When Lucy suggests that he direct the Christmas play, Charlie Brown hopes to find the true meaning of Christmas in the process. It doesn't work well, and then Charlie chooses a tree that the kids enjoy livening up.
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer: Rudolph was born with a red shiny nose but his uncles, the other reindeer and elves made fun of him and at school the bucks and does made fun of him except Zoey (whom he is in love with). After getting disqualified and banned from the Reindeer games, he ran away from home and met Slyly and Leonard. However an ice witch named _____ has captured Zoey and made a powerful storm to put Santa out of business. Will Rudolph save Zoey and Christmas or will He keep continuing his life being bullied?
Stormella
Name the main actor (of George Bailey's character) in It's a Wonderful Life
Jimmy Stewart
A young man inadvertently breaks three important rules concerning his new pet and unleashes a horde of malevolently mischievous monsters on a small town. This is the Gremlins. What are the three rules for the gremlins?
no water, no food after midnight, no bright light
After a divorced New York mother (Doris) hires a nice old man to play Santa Claus at Macy's, she is startled by his claim to be the genuine article. When his sanity is questioned, a lawyer defends him in court by arguing that he's not mistaken.
Miracle on 34th Street
Name some of the booby traps made by Kevin in Home Alone.
paint can on the stairs, glue and feathers, ornaments on the floor, hot doorknob, tar on steps (and a nail waiting for the bad guy once he takes his shoe off bc it is stuck in tar), ice on the stairs to the front door
A successful song-and-dance team become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general in White Christmas. Name two major names in this film (hint, one of them sings White Christmas).
Bing Crosby and Danny Kaye
Two women troubled with guy-problems swap homes in each other's countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love. This is the plot of The Holiday. Iris is in love with a man who is about to marry another woman. Across the globe, Amanda realizes the man she lives with has been unfaithful. Two women who have never met and live 6000 miles apart find themselves in the exact same place. They meet online at a home exchange website and impulsively switch homes for the holiday. Iris moves into Amanda's L.A. house in sunny California as Amanda arrives in the snow covered English countryside. Shortly after arriving at their destinations, both women find the last thing either expects: a new romance. Amanda is charmed by ______ and Iris, with inspiration provided by legendary screenwriter Arthur, mends her heart when she meets film composer Miles.
Iris' handsome brother Graham
It is Christmas Eve, seven years since the death of Jacob Marley, the business partner and only friend of the stingy Ebenezer Scrooge. When Scrooge arrives home, he is greeted by a series of spooky apparitions. Marley’s ghost tells Scrooge that he has been wandering the earth trying to undo the wrongs that he neglected in his lifetime. After visits by the ghost of Christmas past and Christmas present Scrooge changes his ways.
A Christmas Carol
Die Hard: NYPD cop John McClane goes on a Christmas vacation to visit his wife Holly in Los Angeles where she works for the which corporatoin?. While they are at the company's headquarters for a Christmas party, a group of robbers led by Hans Gruber take control of the building and hold everyone hostage, with the exception of John, while they plan to perform a lucrative heist. Unable to escape and with no immediate police response, John is forced to take matters into his own hands.
Nakatomi Corporation
Jim Carrey played Scrooge in the 2009 adaptation of A Christmas Carol. Who played Scrooge in the 1938 version?
Reginald Owen
Santa's clumsy son Arthur sets out on a mission with Grandsanta to give out a present they misplaced to a young girl in less than two hours. This movie is Arthur Christmas. The S-1 is the answer to how Santa delivers all those presents in just one night. However, during a delivery operation, when one child wakes up and almost sees Santa, an elf inadvertently presses a button, causing a present to fall off a conveyor and go unnoticed. A crazy wrapping elf called Bryony discovers the gift, and Arthur is alarmed to discover that it was the present for Gwen Hines. What is the present?
a Pink Twinkle Bike
When a team of mercenaries breaks into a wealthy family compound on Christmas Eve, taking everyone inside hostage, the team isn’t prepared for a surprise combatant: Santa Claus is on the grounds, and he's about to show why this Nick is no saint
Violent Night
A Christmas Story Christmas came out in 2022. It follows the now-adult Ralphie as he returns to the house on Cleveland Street to give his kids a magical Christmas like the one he had as a child, reconnecting with childhood friends, and reconciling the passing of his Old Man. Ralphie's children befriend one of the Bumpus kids next door and are bullied by two children on a snowmobile. Ralphie reunites with Flick, who now owns a tavern, and Schwartz, who still lives with his mother and has run up a large tab at Flick's. He also takes his family out tree shopping and ends up with a tree too tall for the house's living room. He finds his first typewriter in the attic and begins work on the Old Man's obituary, struggling to find the right words and instead using his makeshift workspace to do what? _______. While leaving the house to go ice skating, Sandy (his wife) slips and sprains her ankle, causing her to need crutches.
write the sequel to his still-unpublished novel
The first adaptation of How The Grinch Stole Christmas! was done in 1966 as a 26-minute TV special and brought the story to life through animation. Name the voice actor of the narrator and grinch in this version.
Boris Karloff
Local schoolchildren are enraptured by the snowfall happening the day before Christmas. Their teacher has hired a magician named Professor Hinkle to entertain the children, but his magic is poorly done. When attempting to pull his rabbit Hocus-Pocus out of his hat, the magician gets angry and throws it away. It is then that Hocus-Pocus appears, and hops off with the hat, causing Hinkle to give chase. Several boys talk a girl named Karen to help them build a snowman and they decide its name is Frosty. What makes Frosty come to life?
Hinkle runs outside, chasing his rabbit. As a gust of wind blows the hat away from them, Karen grabs it, and puts it on Frosty's head. This causes him to come to life, proclaiming, "Happy Birthday!" Karen eagerly explains that the hat must be magic
This war drama snagged an Oscar nomination for best foreign-language film and explores the victory of humanity over brutality as it chronicles the real-life story of the Christmas truce of 1914 when the World War I battlefield welcomed carols instead of carnage.
Joyeux Noel
A movie with the description came out this year: When popular author Jake Turner (Justin Hartley) comes back home at Christmas to settle his estranged mother’s estate, he discovers a diary that may hold information related to his past and that of Rachel (Barrett Doss) – an interesting young woman on a journey of her own. Rachel shows up at the same time in search of information about her birth mother, Noel, who used to be Jake’s nanny. Noel was 17 at the time of Rachel's birth and had to give up her child, as she could not afford to take care of her. Jake and Rachel embark on a journey together to challenge their pasts and discover a future that’s totally unforeseen. What is the movie?
The Noel Diary