The holiday season often gives families the opportunity to celebrate the season by bonding of good food and entertainment on lazy nights cuddled on the couch watching movies. As it may be a little chilly outside this break, bundle up with your family and watch these top five movies.
1. “The Best Man Holiday”
“The Best Man Holiday” is a must see movie to watch during the holidays. This movie shows relationships and friendships won’t be perfect but they will definitely be worth it. A group of long time college friends reunite after fifteen years during the Christmas holiday and old rivalries and grudges are rekindled, but at the end, the friends come together. “The Best Man Holiday” is tragicomedy and stars Taye Diggs, Terrence Howard, Harold Perrineau, Morris Chestnut, Monica Calhoun, Sanaa Lathan, Nia Long, Melissa De Sousa and Regina Hall, who return to reprise their roles from the 1999 original film. This movie brings lots of laughs and tears throughout.
2. “FRIDAY AFTER NEXT”
If it’s comedy you want for the holidays, who delivers it better than Craig and Day Day in the third installment of “Friday” series. In this film, Craig and his cousin Day-Day have moved out of their parents houses and gotten jobs as mall security guards in a not-so nice part of town. When a crack-head robber dressed as Santa Claus robs them on Christmas Eve and steals their gifts and rent money, they begin a hilarious adventure to retrieve goods. Ice Cube, Mike Epps, Rickey Smiley, and Katt Williams all on the same screen can only equate to the best Christmas comedy in the hood ever made.
3. “This Christmas”
“This Christmas” has already become a classic must-see movie to watch during the holidays. The film chronicles the lives of the Whitfield family, led by matriarch Ma Dere (Loretta Devine), who has gathered her children together under one roof for the first time in seven years. The drama and comedy that follow between siblings: Sister (Regina King), Quentin (Idris Elba), Kelli (Sharon Leal), Claude (Columbus Short), and Baby (Chris Brown) is a reflection of the dysfunction many see in their own families. Criminal activity, legal problems, marital issues and family secrets, all culminate on the eve of Christmas as the family must put aside their differences to help each other proving that unity, forgiveness, and love keep families alive.
4. “A Charlie Brown Christmas”
“A Charlie Brown Christmas” is a musical animated television special based on the comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. Released way back in 1965, many generations are familiar with the program because it has aired every year since then. In the special, lead character Charlie Brown finds himself depressed during the holiday season because the true meaning of Christmas, the birth of Jesus, seems to be lost as the holiday has become so commercialized. Heartwarming and touching, this movie seems to be just what is needed to remind us that it is not what you get for Christmas that is the most important, it is remembering the true reason for the season.
5. “The Christmas Story”
“A Christmas Story” is a 1983 American Christmas comedy film released in 1983 that has become a holiday classic for many. The popularity of the film earned a 24-marathon on the TBS network every year. The film follows 9 year old Ralphie and his quest to receive a Red Ryder Range Shot 200 BB gun for Christmas. Although we may want something so bad, it’s not always what it’s cracked up to be. Always be thankful for what you do receive, because everyone isn’t as fortunate.
Shelbi Ware contributed to this story
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