 | It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $8.39 Everyone has seen this a million times, yet the conclusion can't fail to touch the heart of even the most hardened Scrooge.
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 | Miracle on 34th Street
Buy used from: $13.99 Yes, I know that there's a colorized version, as well as a remake with Richard Attenborough---but sometimes, the B&W original is best...
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 | Prancer
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $5.85 A wonderful movie to share with kids; the story of a young girl who nurses an injured reindeer back to health, believing that he is Santa's own Prancer.
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 | The Homecoming: A Christmas Story
Buy new: $9.49 / Used from: $8.89 The pilot that became the famous TV series (which wisely changed some of the actors and actresses from this version), has the Walton family worried about the father not making it home on time...
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 | A Christmas Carol
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.94 I didn't think any version could improve on the somewhat dated Alastair Sim version, but this one has---to me, at least.
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 | A Charlie Brown Christmas (Remastered Deluxe Edition)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $13.03 The best of the many Peanuts specials; Charles Schulz was truly a prophet...
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 | Mr. Magoo's Christmas Carol
Buy new: $7.49 Although this is a cartoon, the actual text from Dickens' book is used. Jim Backus voices a magnificent Scrooge, and the original songs are wonderful.
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 | Home Alone
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $6.49 The kids will love it, just to see 8-year old Kevin outwit the burglars---but it has some wonderful lessons about the importance of FAMILY, as well.
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 | Christmas Angel
Buy new: $14.99 A very wealthy man is living anonymously and being a "Secret Santa" to needy people; he recruits a young female neighbor of his to assist him.
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 | The Christmas Choir
Buy new: $12.49 / Used from: $7.45 A workaholic accountant starts to direct a choir of homeless men, after his fiance breaks off from him. (Based on a true story.)
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 | Home For Christmas
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $7.92 A little girl wants Santa to bring her a Grandpa for Christmas, and she thinks that a local homeless man is the one Santa chose...
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 | Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
Buy new: $9.99 / Used from: $8.46 This "stop-action" classic outshines all of the recent computer-generated graphics-infested extravaganzas because it focuses on the touching and ultimately triumphant STORY.
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 | Trapped in Paradise
Buy new: $9.98 / Used from: $2.45 Three con men come to a small town to steal, but end up being transformed by a community of people willing to give a stranger a second chance...
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 | A Multicultural Christmas: A Novel About Broadening One's Horizons by Steven H Propp
Buy new: $16.95 / Used from: $14.05 A novel about celebrating, learning about others who aren't like you, and the "true meaning" of the holidays.
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