Charlie and I are working on our Homeschooling calendar and filling it up with Field Trips we would like to attend. For fun we have put together a list of Christmas Movies we would like to see on the big Screen at the Palace Theater in Grapevine, Texas.
Classic Christmas Movies
(1990) PG, 103 minutes Saturday, November 28 at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, December 22 at 2 p.m.
Starring: Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci & Daniel Stern
Directed by John Hughes
An eight-year-old troublemaker must protect his house from a pair of burglars when he is accidentally left home alone by his family during
Christmas vacation.
(1951) NR, 86 minutesMonday, November 30 at 7 p.m.Starring: Alastair Sim, Jack Warner
& Kathleen HarrisonDirected by Brian Desmond HurstAn old, bitter miser is given a chance for redemption when he is haunted by three ghosts on
Christmas Eve.
(1983) PG, 94 minutes
Tuesday, December 1 at 7 p.m.
Starring: Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon & Darren McGavin
Directed by Bob Clark
In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie attempts to convince his parents, his teacher and Santa that a Red Ryder BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
(1954) NR, 120 minutes
Wednesday, December 2 at 7 p.m.
Sunday, December 13 at 2 p.m.
Tuesday, December 22 at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, December 23 at 2 p.m.
Starring: Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye & Rosemary Clooney
Directed by Michael Curtiz
A successful song-and-dance duo become romantically involved with a sister act and team up to save the failing Vermont inn of their former commanding general.
(1946) PG, 130 minutes
Monday, December 7 at 7 p.m.
Monday, December 14 at 2 p.m.
Monday, December 21 at 7 p.m.
Wednesday, December 23 at 7 p.m.
Starring: James Stewart, Donna Reed & Lionel Barrymore
Directed by Frank Capra
An angel is sent from Heaven to help a desperately frustrated businessman by showing him what life would have been like if he had never existed.
(1947) NR, 96 minutes Wednesday, December 9 at 7 p.m.
Starring: Edmund Gwenn, Maureen O’Hara
& John Payne
Directed by George Seaton
When a nice old man, who claims to be Santa Claus, is institutionalized as insane, a young lawyer decides to defend him by arguing in court that he is the
real thing.
NATIONAL LAMPOON’S CHRISTMAS VACATION
(1989) PG-13, 97 minutes
Sunday, December 13 at 7 p.m.
UGLY SWEATER CONTEST
Starring: Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo & Juliette Lewis
Directed by Jeremiah Chechik
The Griswold family’s plan for a big family Christmas predictably turns into a big disaster.
(2003) PG, 97 minutes
Monday, December 14 at 7 p.m.
Starring: Will Ferrell, James Caan & Bob Newhart
Directed by John Favreau
After discovering he is a human, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole decides to travel to New York City to locate his real father.
ANIMATED DOUBLE FEATURE: A CHARLIE BROWN CHRISTMAS &
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
Monday, December 21 at 11 a.m, Tuesday, December 22 at 11 a.m and
Wednesday, December 23 at 11 a.m.
(1965) G, 25 minutes
Repelled by the commercialism he sees around him, Charlie Brown tries to find the true meaning of Christmas.
HOW THE GRINCH STOLE CHRISTMAS
(1966) NR, 26 minutes
A grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville.
(1994) PG, 97 minutes
Monday, December 21 at 2 p.m.
Starring: Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold
& Wendy Crewson
Directed by John Pasquin
When a man inadvertently makes Santa fall off of his roof on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.
Thank you,
Glenda, Charlie and David Cates
