 | Christmas in Connecticut
Buy new: $13.49 / Used from: $6.36 I confess that this "B" movie is my favorite Christmas movie. It's certainly perfect for cookie baking day--the central conceit of the story is that Barbara Stanwyck's character is a well-known and beloved food writer--but she can't cook! Make sure you avoid the 1992 remake. Only the original will do.
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 | It's a Wonderful Life (60th Anniversary Edition)
Buy new: $13.99 / Used from: $11.18 My second favorite Christmas movie and one of my favorite movies, period. The movie James Stewart will be known for forever. I dare you not to tear up at the end.
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 | Desk Set
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $5.56 One of the lesser known Tracy-Hepburn pairings. As hilarious for the window into early computer technology and mid-50s network television workings as it is touching for its picture of love discovered later in life, all set at Christmas. The best part for us latter day blue-stockings--he loves her BECAUSE she's so smart.
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 | The Bishop's Wife
Buy new: $8.49 / Used from: $6.79 Cary Grant and David Niven, the male eye candy of the 40s, each play against type to magnificent effect.
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 | White Christmas
Buy used from: $16.99 The greatest Christmas song ever in a movie that proves why Technicolor was invented.
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 | A Christmas Story (Two-Disc Special Edition)
Buy used from: $8.40 Who would have guessed in 1983 that this little film with actors either little known or not at all, would become first a cult classic and then finally just a classic. Ah, a boy and his BB gun!
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 | We're No Angels
Buy new: $10.99 / Used from: $8.00 If you know Humphrey Bogart only from his early thirties gangster reputation or his forties leading man work, this is a surprise. Don't mistake the De Niro 90s film for this one.
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 | Miracle on 34th Street
Buy new: $15.99 / Used from: $6.75 Another great Christmas film from the 40s (maybe the best film era of all). Skip the remake.
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 | The Thin Man (Keepcase)
Buy new: $14.99 / Used from: $4.06 The first of the wonderful Thin Man movies, with Christmas as a backdrop to permit lots of parties, funny gift-giving and witty banter between the stars, Powell and Loy.
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 | After the Thin Man
Buy used from: $9.99 Made 2 years after "The Thin Man" but just a week later in "movie time", this outing of the wittiest celuloid couple that are NOT played by Spencer and Tracy, occurs over New Year's Eve and Day. Lots of gay banter and party-going by our intrepid sleuths, but the Asta-Mrs. Asta (their dogs) storyline almost steals the movie.
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 | Prancer
Buy new: $10.49 / Used from: $3.92 Not just for the kids.
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 | The Family Man
Buy new: $6.49 / Used from: $1.45 A modern day reimagining of the "It's a Wonderful Life" morality play--only this time, our Everyman (Nicolas Cage) finds out what what life would have been like if he'd married his college sweetheart (a luminous Tea Leone) instead of becoming a wealthy playboy investment banker. Funny, heart-breaking while still being heart-warming, family Christmas fare.
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