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Language
English
Description
In 1940s Indiana, nine-year-old Ralphie dreams of his ideal Christmas gift: a genuine Red Ryder 200-shot carbine action air rifle. But when gruff dad and doting mom regularly respond with "You'll shoot your eye out!" Ralphie mounts a full-scale Santa-begging campaign. He encounters a slew of calamities from snowsuit paralysis to the dreaded tongue-on-a-frozen-flagpole gambit.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Ella lives in a fanciful and magical world where all children are given a "gift" from their fairy Godmother at birth. Ella's gift - and curse - was that of obedience. As a result, Ella cannot refuse any command, and as a result she is often taken advantage of. In a bid to regain control of her life, Ella goes on a quest to free herself from this mysterious "gift". Ella must outwit a kingdom filled with ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, talking books...
Publisher
Universal Pictures Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2017]
Language
English
Formats
Description
A beloved patriarch asks his family for one gift this holiday season: to get along. If they can honor that wish and spend five days under the same roof without killing one another, it will be a Christmas miracle.
Language
English
Formats
Description
Ralphie is a 9-year-old who wants only one thing for Christmas - an official Red Ryder carbine-action 200-shot range model BB rifle with a compass in the stock. Between his parents, his teacher, and even Santa Claus all Ralphie hears is "No, you'll shoot your eye out." By this time, Ralphie has had enough of that. When Scut Farkus, the schoolyard bully and his sidekick Grover Dill start in on Ralphie while he's on his way home from school that day,...
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
c2012
Language
English
Description
The original, traditional, one-hundred-percent, red-blooded, two-fisted, all-American Christmas continues five years later with Ralphie, Randy, Mom, and the old man. This time, Ralphie has his eyes fixed on a car. But trouble is sure to follow.
Publisher
20th Century Fox Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
It's Christmas Eve and Howard Langston is determined to get his son the year's most popular toy, the Turbo Man action figure. But everywhere he goes, it's sold out. Soon, Howard finds himself in a crazed battle against time, crowds and a maniacal postman who's as determined as Howard to find Turbo Man.
Publisher
Miramax Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2004
Language
English
Description
Ella lives in a fanciful and magical world where all children are given a "gift" from their fairy Godmother at birth. Ella's gift - and curse - was that of obedience. As a result, Ella cannot refuse any command, and as a result she is often taken advantage of. In a bid to regain control of her life, Ella goes on a quest to free herself from this mysterious "gift". Ella must outwit a kingdom filled with ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, talking books...
10) Winky's horse
Publisher
kaBOOM! Entertainment
Pub. Date
c2008
Language
English
Description
There is only one thing Winky wants: a horse, a real horse to ride, but she knows her parents would never allow her to get one. Luckily at school, Winky learns about Santa and how he gives presents to all the children. With great excitement Winky turns to Santa in the hope of making her dreams come true.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2007]
Language
English
Description
There is no better time of year than Christmas, especially in South Park. Join in as the citizens of South Park sing many of everyone's favorite holiday classics. See the boys bring Christmas to Iraq and learn how hard it is to be a Jew during this holiday season. Christmas is a time when we all can put aside our differences and agree on what the holidays are really all about - the presents.
Publisher
Cinedigm
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
A hopeless romantic, who can't ever seem to give a guy a real chance, begins receving each of the "12 days of Christmas" as gifts anonymously at her door. As she tries to figure out who is sending the gifts, she begins to believe that the mystery suitor could finally live up to her expectations.
15) The game
Series
Criterion collection volume 627
Publisher
Criterion Collection
Pub. Date
2012.
Language
English
Description
Enormously wealthy and emotionally remote investment banker Nicholas Van Orton receives a strange gift from his ne'er-do-well younger brother on his 48th birthday: A voucher for a game that will change his life. Thus begins a trip down a rabbit hole that is puzzling, terrifying, and exhilarating for Nicholas and viewer alike. This is a surreal multilayered, noirish descent into one man's personal hell.
Publisher
Hallmark Channel
Pub. Date
[2015]
Language
English
Description
With the holiday season at hand, single mom Nicky Talbot is unemployed and struggling to afford a nice Christmas with her eight-year-old daughter. Hearing that Cartwright's Department Store is hiring temporary holiday help, Nicky rushes in to apply, but is rejected by Senior VP Fiona Aldrich, who considers Nicky a threat to the relationship she hopes to have with Bill, a charming and handsome store manager.
Publisher
[Publisher not identified]
Pub. Date
[2014]
Language
English
Description
Boyd and his family are forced to spend Christmas at his parents' house. When he realizes that he left his son's gifts at home, Boyd and his father must hit the road to retrieve the gifts before sunrise and save Christmas.
18) Ella enchanted
Publisher
Paramount
Pub. Date
[2020]
Language
English
Description
Ella lives in a fanciful and magical world where all children are given a "gift" from their fairy Godmother at birth. Ella's gift - and curse - was that of obedience. As a result, Ella cannot refuse any command, and as a result she is often taken advantage of. In a bid to regain control of her life, Ella goes on a quest to free herself from this mysterious "gift". Ella must outwit a kingdom filled with ogres, giants, wicked stepsisters, talking books...
19) Mr. Christmas
Publisher
Luminous Films
Pub. Date
c2005
Language
English
Description
At the Christmas season in 1941, a young father in Eureka Springs, Ark., cannot afford to buy his 5-year-old daughter the bicycle she expects from Santa Claus.
Publisher
Paramount Home Entertainment
Pub. Date
[2022]
Language
English
Description
Jamie, the owner of a small-town sightseeing company, has a difficult time navigating the holidays after the death of her husband, who loved giving to others at Christmastime. She gets inspired to give an anonymous donation to a local fundraiser after seeing it on the news, and the whole town gets in the gift-giving spirit. Newscaster Scott comes to town to uncover the identity of the secret Santa.
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