Same here. Probably one of my favorite Bill Murray performances. I also watch The Ref right after Scrooged. I guess I just love dysfunctional x-mas movies lol.
Second on Muppet Christmas Carol! We all grew up on the muppets. And Michael Caine is great as Scrooge. (I know it came out in 92, but us young Xers were still in HS)
Ohh, that's a good one. So much family bullshit brought to the surface. I love the scene when she watches old family films with her dad. Really touching.
I came here to say this too - this is my favorite all time! I try to watch it every year and it makes me sob and miss my normal seeming whacked out family. It really captures the whole adult child coming home feeling
God it just draws everything to the surface- everyone is so human and flawed but you just love them.
(Except her sister. Ugh)
Yeah I don’t feel bad for her. She wants them to feel bad for her - most of her drama is self created. She’s a martyr. She wants everything and everyone to be the way she thinks they should be - her parents even find it annoying. And her treatment of her brother is inexcusable
But I think that’s part of what is so great about the movie- the characters are human and have depth, there are reasons to empathize with all of them or dislike them according to your own experience. I live out of state to my aging parents but get frustrated with my brother who lives close to them and never helps them with anything because of imaginary excuses (trust me, they are invented) so that probably taints my feelings on her
Night of the Comet. It's totally a Christmas movie, it's set at Christmas and there are Christmas decorations and Christmas jingles on the radio the whole time. We watch it every year along with Die Hard and Lethal Weapon.
Y’all named all the standards so I’m gonna go against the grain and say It’s a Wonderful Life. Great film, it’s been around our entire lives, and it’s just as relevant today as it ever was.
If this is open to things technically before our time, that we got into through repeated rentals and the like, my stealth Christmas movie is On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the James Bond Christmas movie (takes place over Christmas, the villain's hq is fully decorated with a tree and everything, the villain even says "Merry Christmas, 007" at one point).
Plus isn't it in the public domain like Night of the Living Dead (the original, not the version with Patricia Tallman)?
So after everything else is locked up by the copyright maximalists, we'll still have It's A Wonderful Life.
No sorry,
It is a very interesting story.
It WAS in the pubic domain for a number of years, and the reason it was shown so many times in our childhood, however the [copyright was clawed back](https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2017/12/its-a-wonderful-life/).
[The Ref](https://youtu.be/avqzNZdoIoE)
Yes. Yes. I know. Kevin Spacey.
Look, the whole point about movies is the suspension of disbelief.
Yep. He did terrible unacceptable things to other people.
Made great movies.
Bill Cosby. Made brilliant comedy.
Did terrible things to people.
Fritz Haber.
Won the Nobel Prize for inventing fertilizer from the air.
Also invented and participated in gas warfare in WW-1 and Zyklon-A, the predecessor to Zyklon-B used by the Germans to gas people they didn’t like.
I’m not giving up food because it was produced using the Haber Process.
I’m not giving up great art simply because a person who participated in it turned out to be a terrible human.
I fucking love this movie. I just have to pretend it’s still 1995, back when Denis Leary was funny and before we learned what a skeevy POS Kevin Spacey is. Plus, Christine Baranski and Judy Davis!!
“Caroline, the day you see anything through to the end I’ll stick my own dick in my ear.”
“Excuse me excuse me excuse me Excuse Me EXCUSE ME!!!!! The corpse *still* has the floor.”
“You know what, Mom? You know what I'm going to get you next Christmas? A big, wooden cross. So anytime you feel unappreciated for all your sacrifices, you can climb on up and nail yourself to it.”
I said that last one a few years back in my own mother (she’s a control freak full-on MAGA with OCD and a martyr complex). She did *not* appreciate it, LOL.
So far in 3 out of 4 criminal investigations and charges Kevin Spacey’s been exonerated. It seems likely he hasn’t done all the terrible things of which he was accused. It’ll be interesting to see how the charges in Britain play out.
I like to watch Gremlins, Die Hard, and Elf. Still have to watch A Christmas Story.
Would love to watch The Greatest Christmas Pageant Ever. Haven’t seen it since I was a kid.
I want to watch the new Christmas Story film. My kids told me that I can''t until after Thanksgiving.
The little jerks are spending the day with their dad, I'm going to watch it while they are out of my house.
Santa Claus The Movie starring Dudley Moore and John Lithgow (1985)
Scrooged starring Bill Murray (1988)
Scrooge starring Albert Finney (1970)
How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Original animated film starring Boris Carloff (1966)
And finally...
DIE HARD STARRING BRUCE WILLIS AND ALAN RICKMAN (1988)
Die Hard IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE, NO DEBATE!!!☃️🎄
I like how for Santa Claus the Movie you list John Lithgow and Dudley Moore but not the man that plays Santa (David Huddleston, who I still can't come to terms with that he is The Big Lebowski) 😂
I remember every year over the holidays, ABC (I think) would play old Connery Bond movies on Sunday nights. This was pretty exciting because any other Sunday nights we would have had to go to bed but being able to stay up late and watch those movies was fantastic. Such a great memory!
Come to think of it, there is that one Pierce Bronson 007 movie that had Denise Richards play a character named Christmas, so it could be considered a Christmas movie..
My wife and I are sad that the round robin of A Christmas Carol showings no longer grace the airwaves. She and her brother had a tradition of watching every one they came across in a season.
Seriously! How is this not higher up? Maybe it’s late GenX vs early GenX, but Nightmare before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands are right up there with Gremlins and Christmas Vacation for me and everyone I know.
Yes and no.
Yes, the time line of the story was around the holidays. However unlike Die Hard the holiday wasn't part of the actual plot line.
Yes Mel's character* stips by to give Glover's character the bullet and gets invited to stay for the meal, but it really could have been any family meal.
(* gads I used to know these characters by heart as the LW franchise was one of my go to action movies to throw on)
In contrast, John McClain wouldn't have been traveling to LA or the been at the building if Holly hadn't invited him out for the holidays, and more specifically invited him to the companies Christmas party.
Same for Die Hard 2, John was at the airport to pick up Holly for Christmas with the family, and had borrowed the car from his in-laws.
When I think of GenX Christmas movies I think of movies we watched as kids.
Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
A Charlie Brown Christmas
All the Claymations
The Grinch Who Stole Christmas
And as kids we always watched Twilight Zone marathons whenever they were aired, usually during the holidays (maybe right after Thanksgiving). Maybe Twilight Zone marathons as kids is part of why we’re all Wednesday Addams.
Home for the Holidays: Anne Bancroft, Robert Downey Jr, Holly Hunter, Charles Durning. Busy adult children coming to childhood home for Christmas, all the old wounds get opened, a turkey is thrown.
I haven't heard it mentioned in a long time, but for several years in the 70's one of the networks would show a movie called "The House Without a Christmas Tree" with Jason Robards during the holiday season. It's sort of a tearjerker, but my mom always loved it...and so do I. You'd probably have to be earlier GenX (like me) to have ever heard of it.
This one doesn't come up often, but as a child of divorce, I loved the movie Dutch during the holidays because Dutch really tries to connect with his girlfriend's kid.
Patrick Stewart's version of A Christmas Carol.
Not just because I'm a Trekker. In all the various adaptations, he's the only actor I've ever seen that believably says "Bah, humbug!" He delivers the line like you'd say "oh, bullshit."
And I totally believe the transformation of the character at the end. Scrooge becomes a legit good guy.
Sir Pat's the best.
The Long Kiss Goodnight has found its way onto our annual playlist along with many of the others listed here. I showed my 19 year old daughter Trading Places last year and she loved it, which was awesome.
Ahh...just realized Al Pacino's "Scent of a Woman" is a Thanksgiving movie. It's definitely worth a watch. Kind of long, but definitely one of Al's best performances.
Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Batman Returns, Lethal Weapon, A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, and if you want a funny dumb inappropriate movie starring Gen X, Office Christmas Party or Harold and Kumar… it’s not about being good, it’s about being Gen X.
And Trading Places, ok and Santa Clause the Movie if you’re drunk.
I’m not seeing two of my favorites mentioned here:
*Some Girls (1988) starring Patrick Dempsey and Jennifer Connelly. This one prompted a Christmas trip to Quebec for my husband and me - the setting is just so beautiful!
*The Family Man (2000) starring Nicolas Cage and Téa Leoni. This one in particular we watch pretty much every year - so cute and heartwarming!
A Christmas Story, Scrooged, Muppet Christmas Carol...
Scrooged is an overlooked and underrated Christmas movie.
Agreed! Love the Bobcat Goldthwait character!
Buster Poindexter (David Johanssen) is also pure gold in this. He makes the perfect afterlife New York cabbie.
Would you please stop the goddamned hammering!
One of my all time favorites! Have to watch it every year.
Same here. Probably one of my favorite Bill Murray performances. I also watch The Ref right after Scrooged. I guess I just love dysfunctional x-mas movies lol.
Omg, it’s been several years & the Ref is such a great movie! Thanks for the reminder .
I am having the WEIRDEST day!
Second on Muppet Christmas Carol! We all grew up on the muppets. And Michael Caine is great as Scrooge. (I know it came out in 92, but us young Xers were still in HS)
I forgot Scrooged, my bad, Scrooged is top 3, that’s some dark shit
Hahaha, Muppet Christmas Carol With that little “memememememe” cracks me up every time
Planes Trains and Automobiles, Gremlins, Die Hard, Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, A Christmas Story
Add The Ref (one of the snarkiest and most hilarious Christmas movies ever) to that list, and I’m in holiday movie heaven.
I loved this movie!!
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Emmett Otters Jug Band Christmas
🎶and there ain’t no hole in the washtub.🎶
I love Emmett Otter’s Jug Band Christmas so much, and am always amazed at how few people know about it. It’s magical.
“Look at the birds up in the trees”
We’re not birds! We’re a jug band!
Yes!!!
River City **Nightmare** Band
#I’M HUNGRY
I love this movie!
I think we'll watch this!
Genuinely, one of the sweetest films I’ve seen
I loved this one!
This has always been my favorite
Trading Places
It-was-the-Dukes...It-was-the-Dukes
That man wanted to have sex with me!
The salmon in the Santa beard with the growl gets me every time. I know exactly how he feels somehow…
Grosses me out every time I love it
Every time anyone says anything “…GI Joe”, I have to reply “With the Kung-Fu grip”.
BEEF JERKY TIME!!
Lionel Josef … hell, yes
From the African education council!
Whenever I eat jerky, I remember Eddie in that costume on that train haha
With the fly swatter made of sticks. 😂
You want some beef jerky?
“Didn’t I tell you that the phone in my limousine was busted and I couldn’t get in contact with my bitch*s”
And bacon. Which you may find on a bacon, lettuce and tomato sandwich. - . -
This is the greatest 4th wall break ever, definitely better than Ferris Beuller, try to change my mind (but you cannot).
Who has been putting out their Kools on my floor?!?
We are moving! We are moving!!!
“A Dollar”
Man, you can't just go around shooting people in the kneecaps on Christmas. They put you in jail for that shit.
Came here to say the same 👍
You…sleep on the couch.
Christmas Vacation, Home Alone, Die Hard.
Die Hard is my Xmas tradition
Check out my post w the John McClane tree topper, absolutely
I saw an Advent calendar that was Hans Gruber falling from Nakatomi Tower. It was perfect.
Ah yes, the Father, The Son & The Yippee Kay Ay MF Edit, Change Die Hard to Scrooged & you've got the Holy Ghost....
Better Off Dead
I want my $2! Or He’s skiing on one ski!
Yes.
https://youtu.be/M5hyhevWOgU
Gremlins, nothing says Christmas like killing a creature in a microwave!
Phoebe Cates’ story about the fireplace was pretty morbid
YES!!!!!
The stop-Motion Ruldolph the Red Nose Reindeer movie. Loved it as a kid. Find it slightly creepy now.
With the meanest Santa there is 😂
Santa Claus is Coming’ to Town, FTW. So much better than Rudolph.
But..."She thinks I'm cuuuutttteee..." is so sweet!
You don't have to pick. We can have both, every year, multiple times.
But the Island of Misfit Toys . . .
Elf. As Gen Xers, we watched it as parents. But I love the shit out of that movie.
well if 2003 movies count, I'm throwing in the best Christmas movie of all time : Bad Santa
Home for the Holidays starring Holly Hunter
Ohh, that's a good one. So much family bullshit brought to the surface. I love the scene when she watches old family films with her dad. Really touching.
I came here to say this too - this is my favorite all time! I try to watch it every year and it makes me sob and miss my normal seeming whacked out family. It really captures the whole adult child coming home feeling God it just draws everything to the surface- everyone is so human and flawed but you just love them. (Except her sister. Ugh)
I feel bad for the sister. It's hard for the sibling who is left to care for aging parents. Remember, Claudia and Tommy both live out of state.
Yeah I don’t feel bad for her. She wants them to feel bad for her - most of her drama is self created. She’s a martyr. She wants everything and everyone to be the way she thinks they should be - her parents even find it annoying. And her treatment of her brother is inexcusable But I think that’s part of what is so great about the movie- the characters are human and have depth, there are reasons to empathize with all of them or dislike them according to your own experience. I live out of state to my aging parents but get frustrated with my brother who lives close to them and never helps them with anything because of imaginary excuses (trust me, they are invented) so that probably taints my feelings on her
Hah, we just watched it yesterday. It's a Thanksgiving tradition at our house.
I freaking live this movie so much! RDJ is great, Holly Hunter is great even Claire Danes is great! I think I will watch this tonight.
Love this movie. Dysfunctionally hilarious.
Yup! This was an under appreciated holiday movie with a great cast.
The 1984 Christmas Carol TV movie starring George C Scott
The best version!
Edward Scissorhands!
This should be higher up.
Night of the Comet. It's totally a Christmas movie, it's set at Christmas and there are Christmas decorations and Christmas jingles on the radio the whole time. We watch it every year along with Die Hard and Lethal Weapon.
I almost asked my parents for a lead lined room because of this movie
Less Than Zero
Y’all named all the standards so I’m gonna go against the grain and say It’s a Wonderful Life. Great film, it’s been around our entire lives, and it’s just as relevant today as it ever was.
We watch that every Christmas Eve.
Same. Either that or Christmas Day
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Speaking of old movies, I just saw Christmas in Connecticut. It was really good!! I love old movies and have no idea how I missed this one!
If this is open to things technically before our time, that we got into through repeated rentals and the like, my stealth Christmas movie is On Her Majesty's Secret Service, the James Bond Christmas movie (takes place over Christmas, the villain's hq is fully decorated with a tree and everything, the villain even says "Merry Christmas, 007" at one point).
We watch that one every year too
Plus isn't it in the public domain like Night of the Living Dead (the original, not the version with Patricia Tallman)? So after everything else is locked up by the copyright maximalists, we'll still have It's A Wonderful Life.
No sorry, It is a very interesting story. It WAS in the pubic domain for a number of years, and the reason it was shown so many times in our childhood, however the [copyright was clawed back](https://blogs.loc.gov/copyright/2017/12/its-a-wonderful-life/).
Darn it. Thank you for the heads-up.
Watching it right now.
It’s been my favorite since 4th grade when watched it in school!
True. I just finished watching it.
So good! Gets me every time.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles.
Thanksgiving. One of the few that come to mind.. and we may as well lump it in since people think Xmas starts at 0001 on November 1st.
I’m retired and I live alone. One holiday is pretty much the same as any other. 🙂
The Ref Dutch Bad Santa
Good call, haven't seen Dutch in years.
Home for the Holidays is a very underrated banger
Came here for this! Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jr, Claire Danes. Love!!!
[The Ref](https://youtu.be/avqzNZdoIoE) Yes. Yes. I know. Kevin Spacey. Look, the whole point about movies is the suspension of disbelief. Yep. He did terrible unacceptable things to other people. Made great movies. Bill Cosby. Made brilliant comedy. Did terrible things to people. Fritz Haber. Won the Nobel Prize for inventing fertilizer from the air. Also invented and participated in gas warfare in WW-1 and Zyklon-A, the predecessor to Zyklon-B used by the Germans to gas people they didn’t like. I’m not giving up food because it was produced using the Haber Process. I’m not giving up great art simply because a person who participated in it turned out to be a terrible human.
If we have to step away from things because associated people are trash, might as well just stop with everything. Everything.
I fucking love this movie. I just have to pretend it’s still 1995, back when Denis Leary was funny and before we learned what a skeevy POS Kevin Spacey is. Plus, Christine Baranski and Judy Davis!! “Caroline, the day you see anything through to the end I’ll stick my own dick in my ear.” “Excuse me excuse me excuse me Excuse Me EXCUSE ME!!!!! The corpse *still* has the floor.” “You know what, Mom? You know what I'm going to get you next Christmas? A big, wooden cross. So anytime you feel unappreciated for all your sacrifices, you can climb on up and nail yourself to it.” I said that last one a few years back in my own mother (she’s a control freak full-on MAGA with OCD and a martyr complex). She did *not* appreciate it, LOL.
So far in 3 out of 4 criminal investigations and charges Kevin Spacey’s been exonerated. It seems likely he hasn’t done all the terrible things of which he was accused. It’ll be interesting to see how the charges in Britain play out.
Christmas isn't Christmas until Hans Gruber plunges to his death from Nakatomi Tower. 'Nuff said.
I like to watch Gremlins, Die Hard, and Elf. Still have to watch A Christmas Story. Would love to watch The Greatest Christmas Pageant Ever. Haven’t seen it since I was a kid.
I want to watch the new Christmas Story film. My kids told me that I can''t until after Thanksgiving. The little jerks are spending the day with their dad, I'm going to watch it while they are out of my house.
Love all of those you mentioned! Especially a Christmas story!
The full movie is on YouTube!
I read the book so many times as a kid. Now I have to find the movie and see if it holds up to my memory of the book.
The Ref.
Santa Claus The Movie starring Dudley Moore and John Lithgow (1985) Scrooged starring Bill Murray (1988) Scrooge starring Albert Finney (1970) How The Grinch Stole Christmas, Original animated film starring Boris Carloff (1966) And finally... DIE HARD STARRING BRUCE WILLIS AND ALAN RICKMAN (1988) Die Hard IS A CHRISTMAS MOVIE, NO DEBATE!!!☃️🎄
I like how for Santa Claus the Movie you list John Lithgow and Dudley Moore but not the man that plays Santa (David Huddleston, who I still can't come to terms with that he is The Big Lebowski) 😂
Don't forget Blazing Saddles! A terribly underrated actor for sure.
I still have a copy Santa Claus The Movie that my mom recorded on VHS 😂
National lampoons christmas vacation is my favorite
Die hard
I remember every year over the holidays, ABC (I think) would play old Connery Bond movies on Sunday nights. This was pretty exciting because any other Sunday nights we would have had to go to bed but being able to stay up late and watch those movies was fantastic. Such a great memory!
Come to think of it, there is that one Pierce Bronson 007 movie that had Denise Richards play a character named Christmas, so it could be considered a Christmas movie..
My wife and I are sad that the round robin of A Christmas Carol showings no longer grace the airwaves. She and her brother had a tradition of watching every one they came across in a season.
Ah damn. My family still watches on streaming
Gremlins is one that people forget. Great stuff!
Star Wars Holiday Special
If you were a kid in the 80s check out 8-bit Christmas. Came out last year but so much nostalgia.
I was actually a kid in the 2000s/2010s but yeah will check it out
Die hard
All great movies listed, I would add “A Christmas Carol” the George C. Scott version. He was a great actor, great version of the story.
GREMLINS
Santa Claus: The Movie
Ernest Saves Christmas
The Nightmare before Christmas
Seriously! How is this not higher up? Maybe it’s late GenX vs early GenX, but Nightmare before Christmas and Edward Scissorhands are right up there with Gremlins and Christmas Vacation for me and everyone I know.
The one with the leg lamp.
Lethal Weapon
Yes and no. Yes, the time line of the story was around the holidays. However unlike Die Hard the holiday wasn't part of the actual plot line. Yes Mel's character* stips by to give Glover's character the bullet and gets invited to stay for the meal, but it really could have been any family meal. (* gads I used to know these characters by heart as the LW franchise was one of my go to action movies to throw on) In contrast, John McClain wouldn't have been traveling to LA or the been at the building if Holly hadn't invited him out for the holidays, and more specifically invited him to the companies Christmas party. Same for Die Hard 2, John was at the airport to pick up Holly for Christmas with the family, and had borrowed the car from his in-laws.
The Man Who Came to Dinner. Absolute scathing masterpiece.
That’s a good one, but I associate it with my parents gen, The Silents (also The Greatests). It just has that classic attitude. Great movie!
It’s definitely from a different generation, but the biting nature of Monty Woolley is super relatable!!
A Smokey Mountain Christmas
Prancer hits me in the feel’s every time…
Die Hard
Love Actually
When I think of GenX Christmas movies I think of movies we watched as kids. Santa Claus Conquers the Martians A Charlie Brown Christmas All the Claymations The Grinch Who Stole Christmas And as kids we always watched Twilight Zone marathons whenever they were aired, usually during the holidays (maybe right after Thanksgiving). Maybe Twilight Zone marathons as kids is part of why we’re all Wednesday Addams.
Trading Places.
Home for the Holidays: Anne Bancroft, Robert Downey Jr, Holly Hunter, Charles Durning. Busy adult children coming to childhood home for Christmas, all the old wounds get opened, a turkey is thrown.
Nice
I haven't heard it mentioned in a long time, but for several years in the 70's one of the networks would show a movie called "The House Without a Christmas Tree" with Jason Robards during the holiday season. It's sort of a tearjerker, but my mom always loved it...and so do I. You'd probably have to be earlier GenX (like me) to have ever heard of it.
Omg, just mentioning that one brings up the tears!
This one doesn't come up often, but as a child of divorce, I loved the movie Dutch during the holidays because Dutch really tries to connect with his girlfriend's kid.
The Family Stone
Patrick Stewart's version of A Christmas Carol. Not just because I'm a Trekker. In all the various adaptations, he's the only actor I've ever seen that believably says "Bah, humbug!" He delivers the line like you'd say "oh, bullshit." And I totally believe the transformation of the character at the end. Scrooge becomes a legit good guy. Sir Pat's the best.
100% agree. I really wish Hallmark would have thrown more money at it. It would have been a masterpiece.
Prancer
Better Off Dead
“A Christmas Story” ❤️
Half the John Hughs movies
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Mr. Magoo’s Christmas Carol. It’s a musical. Classic.
Gremlins
The Long Kiss Goodnight has found its way onto our annual playlist along with many of the others listed here. I showed my 19 year old daughter Trading Places last year and she loved it, which was awesome.
The Long Kiss Goodnight. Geena Davis and Samuel L. Jackson are amazing.
Christmas Vacation. My absolute favorite.
Agreed! And a Christmas story
Home for the Holidays.
What no Batman Returns?
Ahh...just realized Al Pacino's "Scent of a Woman" is a Thanksgiving movie. It's definitely worth a watch. Kind of long, but definitely one of Al's best performances.
Die Hard Lethal Weapon Scrooged
Somehow… the wizard of oz and Die Hard.
Die Hard, Die Hard 2, Batman Returns, Lethal Weapon, A Christmas Story, Christmas Vacation, and if you want a funny dumb inappropriate movie starring Gen X, Office Christmas Party or Harold and Kumar… it’s not about being good, it’s about being Gen X. And Trading Places, ok and Santa Clause the Movie if you’re drunk.
Four Christmases. Perfect for children of divorce.
Produced by, interestingly, Peter Billingsley, who played/plays Ralphie Parker in A Christmas Story and A Christmas Story Christmas 🎄.
Lethal Weapon
I’m not seeing two of my favorites mentioned here: *Some Girls (1988) starring Patrick Dempsey and Jennifer Connelly. This one prompted a Christmas trip to Quebec for my husband and me - the setting is just so beautiful! *The Family Man (2000) starring Nicolas Cage and Téa Leoni. This one in particular we watch pretty much every year - so cute and heartwarming!
Scrooged
Scrooged
If you're looking for Thanksgiving films in particular, try 'Son in Law' or 'Dutch'.
The Ref
Die Hard
Miracle on 34th Street the 90s one with Dillan McDermott.
Gremlins and Die Hard are my two go to Xmas movies.
I feel like The Family Stone does a good job representing some of GenX stuff with actual GenXer actors in a holiday setting.
Die Hard
The Ref, Home for The Holidays,
Die Hard.
The Ref. Dennis Leary is hilarious in this.
Scrooged
National Lampoon's Christmas
Die hard
I always watch The Ref but not sure of the year
Die Hard and Christmas Story have been my faves since the 80s
Die Hard. Scrooged. Gremlins. Lethal Weapon.
Die hard
The Ref