Charles Dicken's Christmas Carol is one of my favorite classic books and I have seen many movie versions of the book and I have loved them all from the traditional ones like the movies starring Alastair Sim, Reginald Owen, Patrick Stewart and George C. Scott to the modern variations like A Carol Christmas starring Tori Spelling and while this modern twist on the old tale may not be original because they have already done other feminine versions of A Christmas carol such as Ebbie, A Diva's Christmas carol, Ms. Scrooge, etc, I still liked A Carol Christmas and thought it was good and very entertaining. I first watched A Carol Christmas when I taped this movie last Christmas of 2004 when it was shown on The Hallmark Channel and I'm so glad this movie has made it to DVD and I very highly recommend the movie and now I just hope that Ebbie starring Susan Lucci will make it to DVD. I have search on Amazon under DVD and video for Ebbie and it doesn't seem to be on either DVD or video and I hope it will make it to DVD soon. Okay I definitely liked A Carol Christmas more then Ebbie but Ebbie is good too! BTW: All of the female versions of A Christmas Carol have all taken place in modern times and I would love to see someone do a feminine version of A Christmas Carol that takes place in Victorian era England just like the original story with perhaps the female Scrooge type character being named something like Ebenezia Scrooge.
A good one for the collection
If you are a collector of good, fun Christmas movies (unlike the garbage of A Very Muppet Christmas), this is one for your collection. Tori Spelling brings a good bit of humor to this Scrooge like tale. Similar to Susan Lucci's 'Ebbie' but with a bit more humor. Definitely worth having!
I was afraid this movie was going to be a career versus family story. It isn't. It's a career-only versus career-with-family story. It seems to be speaking to those who feel that the decision to get married and have a family means giving up their dreams, setting low goals and having low expectations. This movie shows that you don't have to do it that way. You can get married, have a family and still strive to make something of your life. It does not show that it may (or may not) be harder that way, but the point is made.
If you want a career versus family movie, the best is "Me, Myself, I" (NO, not "Me, Myself and Irene"). This is an intelligent Australian movie that shows that both choices come with a price, both have their advantages and disadvantages. The movie... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Timothy Bond DVD Release Date: Released the 01 November 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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Slapstick humor gets a full-body workout in Christmas with the Kranks. Critics were unanimous in their derision, and John Grisham must have gnashed his teeth over what studio-boss-turned-director Joe Roth did to his bestselling novel Skipping Christmas, to which this broad-stroked comedy bears little or no resemblance. The title characters are played by Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, who decide to skip Christmas because their daughter's in Peru with the Peace Corps. Thus begins a rabid program of enforced conformity when their neighbors (led by Dan Aykroyd) coerce the Kranks into changing their holiday attitude--a change that comes easily when the daughter announces she'll be home for Christmas after all. Imagine if a suburban lynch mob said "Have a Merry Christmas or we'll... More Info about this DVD Director(s): Joe Roth DVD Release Date: Released the 08 November 2005 Usually ships in 24 hours
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It would be a shame if only Dolly Parton fans saw this movie. They will like it, of course, but anyone who likes wholesome family feel-good movies will like it too. Dolly has one week to bring a hurt and alienated family back together again, and this father, son and daughter are a challenge even to a good-hearted infectious spirit like Dolly. The set-backs are believable, and how she finally does it is believable.
I wish I could give the movie a perfect score, and the rest of the movie is so good, it almost deserves it. But if you're NOT a fan, the first scene is likely to dampen your response to most of the rest of the movie (until you realize that the rest of the movie is not at all like the first scene). I urge you to skip this scene on your first viewing. The... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Dolly Parton DVD Release Date: Released the 28 June 2005 Usually ships in 6 to 8 days
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I love Christmas Movies and I also love to read romance books and this movie is based on a Christmas themed romance book called A Christmas Love by Kathleen Creighton though the title of the movie was changed to A Holiday to Remember. I have the book this movie was based on but haven't read it yet but I did peek at a couple of pages in the book and it looks like Carolyn and Clay didn't know each other in the book until they were adults but they changed it in this movie that they had known each other in their past and were getting married after they had finished high school but she jilted him and left him standing at the alter. Though I didn't read the book except to peek at a couple of pages and I can't really compare them I can say that the movie was good and the acting was very good... More Info about this DVD Actor(s): Randy Travis DVD Release Date: Released the 18 October 2005 Special Order
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