5 Underrated Christmas Movies You May Have Never Seen
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5 Underrated Christmas Movies You May Have Never Seen

Branching Out From Elf and The Santa Claus

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5 Underrated Christmas Movies You May Have Never Seen
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Christmas movies are without a doubt a vital tradition, but sometimes it can seem as if we just watch the same movies and listen to the same quotes over and over again. I mean, I love Elf as much as the next girl, but you can only hear the term, “Cotton-Headed Ninnymuggins” so many times per year. So, here are some Christmas movies you may not have seen, or maybe have never even heard of, to mix things up this holiday season.

1. Christmas with the Kranks

Featuring legends, Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis, Christmas with the Kranks is about a husband and wife who decide to “boycott” the holidays by taking a cruise on Christmas Day. Everything seems fine, until their hilarious, meddling neighbors find out. Christmas with the Kranks may be my all-time favorite Christmas movie. It’s a definite must-see!

2. The Family Man

This movie is kind of reminiscent of It’s a Wonderful Life. Nicholas Cage plays a selfish, rich entrepreneur who gets to see what life would be like if he had chosen to have a family. It's the perfect mix of funny, heartwarming, and romantic.

3. Window Wonderland

Window Wonderland is a Hallmark movie that defies Hallmark movie stereotypes. Instead of predictable and cheesy, the characters are both witty and loveable. The movie follows a competition between two window designers vying for the same job: head window designer at McGuire department store. (And, yes, they may or may not fall in love along the way.)

4. Prancer

Prancer was one of my grandmother’s favorite Christmas movies, and it has a lot of special memories attached to it. In this movie, a little girl named Jessica Riggs secretly takes in a wounded reindeer and nurses him back to health. No one believes her when she says he belongs to Santa Claus, and her father has been distant ever since her mother passed away. This is one of the sweetest Christmas movies, but so many people have never heard of it.

5. Deck the Halls

Danny DeVito and Matthew Broderick both make Deck the Halls a Christmas season necessity. The story begins when Danny DeVito's character moves into a small town and decides he wants to make his house visible from space. And how does he plan to accomplish this? Christmas lights. Lots of Christmas lights.

Don't just stick with the norm this Christmas! Expand your Christmas movie horizons!

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