Posts Tagged ‘christmas-eve’

The Polar Express (2004)

Wednesday, July 1st, 2009
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Tom Hanks | Leslie Harter Zemeckis | Eddie Deezen | Nona Gaye | Peter Scolari | Brendan King | Andy Pellick | Josh Eli | Mark Mendonca | Rolandas Hendricks | Mark Goodman | Jon Scott | Gregory Gast | Sean Scott | Gordon Hart | Michael Jeter
Directors: Robert Zemeckis
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Santa Claus does not exist. Or does he? For one doubting boy (voice of Daryl Sabara and Tom Hanks), an astonishing event occurs. Late on Christmas Eve night, he lies in bed hoping to hear the sound of reindeer bells from Santa’s sleigh. When to his surprise, a steam engine’s roar and whistle can be heard outside his window. The conductor (voice of Tom Hanks) invites him on board to take an extraordinary journey to the North Pole with many other pajama-clad children. There, he receives an extraordinary gift only those who still believe in Santa can experience.

Black Christmas (1974)

Friday, March 13th, 2009
Genres: Horror | Mystery | Thriller
Countries: Canada
Actors: Olivia Hussey | Keir Dullea | Margot Kidder | John Saxon | Marian Waldman | Andrea Martin | James Edmond | Doug McGrath | Art Hindle | Lynne Griffin | Michael Rapport | Leslie Carlson | Martha Gibson | John Rutter | Robert Warner
Directors: Bob Clark
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This 98-minute film is a stark and stylish horror/thriller that turns everyone’s favorite time of the year inside out. Olivia Hussey and Margot Kidder star among an ill-fated houseful of sorority sisters celebrating the holiday season. Festivities turn fatal when obscene phone calls break the serenity and it becomes clear that a psychopath is stalking the house.

How the Grinch Stole Christmas! (1966)

Tuesday, December 2nd, 2008
Genres: Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy | Musical
Countries: USA
Actors: Boris Karloff | Thurl Ravenscroft | June Foray
Directors: Chuck Jones
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Bitter and hateful, the Grinch is irritated at the thought of the nearby village having a happy time celebrating Christmas. So disguised as Santa Claus, with his dog made to look like a reindeer, he raids the village to steal all the Christmas things. The village is sure to have a sad Christmas this year.

Babe (1995)

Friday, November 28th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Drama | Family | Fantasy
Countries: Australia | USA
Actors: Christine Cavanaugh | Miriam Margolyes | Danny Mann | Hugo Weaving | Miriam Flynn | Russi Taylor | Evelyn Krape | Michael Edward-Stevens | Charles Bartlett | Paul Livingston | Roscoe Lee Browne | James Cromwell | Magda Szubanski | Zoe Burton | Paul Goddard
Directors: Chris Noonan
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Farmer Hoggett wins a runt piglet at a local fair and young Babe, as the piglet decides to call himself, befriends and learns about all the other creatures on the farm. He becomes special friends with one of the sheepdogs, Fly. With Fly’s help, and Farmer Hoggett’s intuition, Babe embarks on a career in sheepherding with some surprising and spectacular results.

The Ref (1994)

Thursday, November 27th, 2008
Genres: Comedy | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
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Denis Leary plays an unfortunate cat burglar, who is abandonded by his partner in the middle of a heist, and is forced to take an irritating Connecticut couple (Kevin Spacey, Judy Davis) hostage. He soon finds that he took more than he bargained for when the couple’s blackmailing son and despicable in-laws step into the picture. Before long they’re driving him nuts with their petty bickering and family problems. The only way for him to survive is to be their referee and resolve their differences, before he can be nabbed by the police.

Shrek the Halls (2007)

Saturday, November 22nd, 2008
Genres: Adventure | Animation | Comedy | Family | Fantasy
Countries: USA
Actors: Mike Myers | Eddie Murphy | Cameron Diaz | Antonio Banderas | Cody Cameron | Susan Fitzer | Christopher Knights | Conrad Vernon | Aron Warner | Marissa Jaret Winokur | Miles Christopher Bakshi | Nina Zoe Bakshi | Dante James Hauser
Directors: Gary Trousdale
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This half-hour animated TV special features the Shrek characters putting their own spin on holiday traditions.

Catch Me If You Can (2002)

Monday, November 17th, 2008
Genres: Biography | Crime | Drama
Countries: USA
Actors: Leonardo DiCaprio | Tom Hanks | Christopher Walken | Martin Sheen | Nathalie Baye | Amy Adams | James Brolin | Brian Howe | Frank John Hughes | Steve Eastin | Chris Ellis | John Finn | Jennifer Garner | Nancy Lenehan | Ellen Pompeo
Directors: Steven Spielberg
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An FBI agent tracks down and catches a young con artist who successfully impersonated an airline pilot, doctor, assistant attorney general and history professor, cashing more than $2.5 million in fraudulent checks in 26 countries.

Inside (2007)

Monday, June 2nd, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: France
Actors: B?atrice Dalle | Alysson Paradis | Nathalie Roussel | Fran?ois-R?gis Marchasson | Jean-Baptiste Tabourin | Dominique Frot | Claude Lul? | Hyam Zeytoun | Tahar Rahim | Emmanuel Guez | Ludovic Berthillot | Emmanuel Lanzi | Nicolas Duvauchelle | Aymen Sa?di
Directors: Alexandre Bustillo
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Still grieving over her recently deceased boyfriend, a pregnant woman becomes haunted by a mysterious woman.

P2 (2007)

Wednesday, May 7th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: USA
Actors: Wes Bentley | Rachel Nichols | Jamie Jones | Paul Sun-Hyung Lee | Simon Reynolds | Philip Williams | Miranda Edwards | Grace Lynn Kung | Stephanie Moore
Directors: Franck Khalfoun
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The story centers on a corporate climber who gets stuck working late on Christmas Eve and finds herself the target of an unhinged security guard. With no help in sight, the woman must overcome physical and psychological challenges to survive.

Black Christmas Movie (2006)

Tuesday, May 6th, 2008
Genres: Horror | Thriller
Countries: Canada | USA
Actors: Katie Cassidy | Michelle Trachtenberg | Lacey Chabert | Kristen Cloke | Andrea Martin | Mary Elizabeth Winstead | Crystal Lowe | Oliver Hudson | Jessica Harmon | Leela Savasta | Kathleen Kole | Karin Konoval | Robert Mann | Dean Friss | Cainan Wiebe
Directors: Glen Morgan
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Not all Christmas stories are full of cheer - take the disturbing childhood of Billy Lenz, for example. Born during Christmas, little Billy Lenz suffered from Jaundice because of a liver defect, and was unwanted by his cruel mother (who only saw the husband she’d come to despise when she looked at her son). While she let her true feelings be known to him with beatings and abuse, only his father showed him compassion like a parent should. But on Christmas Eve in 1975, his unfaithful mother gave him one of the most cruelest gifts of all, as she made five-year-old Billy observe his beloved father’s brutal murder at her own hands and those of her lover with a claw hammer. Before burying him under the house, she locked Billy in the attic for good, to hold his silence of what he’d witnessed that night. His only contact from then on was when she came to punish him for making a noise or other such trivial nuisances, while she was with her lover and starting a “new” family. As Billy’s mother fell pregnant with a daughter and treated her with love, which Billy had never experienced with his mother, Billy came out of the attic on Christmas Eve 1991, taking a rolling pin to his mother’s head, and a pointed tree ornament to her lovers eye before leaving his sister as disfigured as he was by blinding her. Before he could finish the job police forced there way in and dragged him off to mental institution and his sister a foster home, whose eye sight was saved in one eye… but not the other. Cut to the present where a security guard has been monitoring Billy’s progress since he came into his care, back in 1991. Knowing full well that during this time for fifteen years, Billy has made a break from this asylum, but never succeeding… until now. Far away, his childhood home is now a sorority house, where nine sisters and their house-mother are celebrating the holiday season together …but tonight they’re about to get a surprise visitor… and it’s not Santa.