Festive Family Films



As the festive (silly) season gets under way, the folks at Buffalo Technology polled 3,000 people on their favourite Christmas films.  Topping the chart is comedy Home Alone starring Macauley Culkin, followed by Frank Capra’s 1946 classic, It’s a Wonderful Life.  Rounding out the medal positions is the animated adaptation of Raymond Briggs’ The Snowman.   Miracle on 34th Street and White Christmas complete the top 5.

The full top 20 festive family flicks is:

  1. Home Alone
  2. It’s a Wonderful Life
  3. The Snowman
  4. Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
  5. White Christmas
  6. A Christmas Carol
  7. Love Actually
  8. Santa Claus: The Movie
  9. Elf
  10. The Wizard of Oz
  11. The Muppet Christmas Carol
  12. Mary Poppins
  13. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation
  14. Jack Frost
  15. The Nightmare Before Christmas
  16. The Polar Express
  17. The Muppets Christmas Carol
  18. Bad Santa
  19. Home Alone 2
  20. Back to the Future

Maculey Culkin and Home Alone….what were they thinking!  And where’s The Sound of Music?  It’s a Christmas classic.

What’s your favourite Christmas movie?


2 thoughts on “Festive Family Films

  1. Where is A Christmas Story?

    Also, choosing the way-too-PC 1994 Miracle on 34th Street is just really, really sad …

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