Christmas on Chestnut Street (2006)
Gênero : Comédia, Cinema TV
Runtime : 1H 29M
Director : Anne Wheeler
Sinopse
A store decides to start a contest to sell off 60,000 Christmas lights, ordered by accident. The competition soon causes unrest among the locals, but the store's owner, Diane, wants to keep what has become a very profitable competition going, at all costs.
This short documentary depicts Christmastime in Montreal. The milling crowds, department store Santas, Brink's messengers, kindergarten angels and boisterous nightclubs all combine to make a vivid portrait of the holidays.
Em plena época do Natal, Suzan, uma garotinha muito inteligente e esperta, afirma que Papai Noel não existe. Porém, um senhor muito bondoso é contratado para trabalhar como Papai Noel na loja de brinquedos em que sua mãe trabalha. Porém, o que ninguém podia esperar é que o velhinho afirma ser o verdadeiro Papai Noel que está ali justamente para provar para a garotinha e para muitas pessoas que ele é real.
LeAnn Rimes plays herself from her childhood in Nashville to her performing around the country as a country-western singer, until she has to make a choice: Does she perform at the Grand Ole Opry, following her dreams? Or does she not go to the concert, and stay at her dying grandmother's bedside? The made-for-tv film is based in part on LeAnn's autobiographical novel.
Powerful story about love, struggle and passion of an over protective mother and her piano prodigy.
After going down in the fifth round, boxer Bud Gordon bowed out of the limelight. Now residing in a fixer-upper apartment in New Jersey with his girlfriend, Bud longs for his former Manhattan glory. In an effort to get back in the game, he makes a deal with a crooked restaurateur. But quick schemes rarely bring easy pay-offs and as the consequences of his business negotiations unfold, Bud has to make a choice between his integrity and his aspirations.
The action of the story takes place around the Christmas time, when, as usually, the most unbelievable miracles come to life. The story starts with Masha - future doctor and meanwhile an eager student of medical university, her best friend Lilka - a colorful and charismatic young lady who is always in search of man of her life, and Masha's grandfather, Andrei Ivanovich, who is her only relative - a kind but deeply sad amateur painter. The heroes live their ordinary lifes with their worries and laughs until at Christmas Eve they receive a phone call... Three Aunties, who named them self as distant relatives, announce their arrival within an hour. With their arrival the story becomes dashing and somehow magical.
Over the Christmas holidays in a small New England college town, a man and a woman share a brief interlude. He is there to visit his wife, who is a mental patient at the university, and she is there visiting her son, who is a student, after discovering her husband's infidelity.
When Mandie Shaw is thrust into Miss Heathwood’s School for Girls, she struggles to grasp the school’s new rules and the finer points of high society. As Mandie tries to stay out of hot water with Miss Heathwood and discover what the headmistress seems to have against Christmas, she stumbles upon a mystery in the school’s forbidden attic. Will Mandie ignore the warning to flee or try to get to the bottom of the strange noises beyond the boarded-up doors? Uncovering the truth may lead to telling a lie, but it might also unlock the memories of a long-forgotten Christmas.
Twenty-eight-year-old Georgia is convinced the man of her dreams is "the one that got away" back in high school. When Georgia learns of her high school reunion a week before Christmas, she's ecstatic to finally have her chance to win Craig back. But as she gets to relive high school for a night, she begins to realize it might not be Craig at all who got away, but Ben, an old friend with whom she'd fallen out of touch.
Santa's sled crash-lands in the desert where some children and a herd of magic camels help get him back in the air.
A successful American family retreat to their summer home on the banks of Lake Erie to find meaning in life, illness, loss, and change this Christmas. With a successful career in the wine business, and two amazing children, what more can a family ask for. But this Christmas will change the Austin family forever with Suzie falling ill. With Andrew struggling over his wife's ill health and the children trying to find peace and solace on their own, only a miracle can help them through this Christmas.
A Short Film by Lars Ostenfeld.
Inspired by Hans Christian Anderson's fairytale, this Danish film tells the story of a Christmas tree from a most unusual angle - through the 'voice' of the tree itself. The tree has big ambitions, doing everything it can to grow so tall that it reaches the sky. Featuring extraordinary photography, the film follows the adventures of its life from sapling to maturity, culminating in a triumphal Christmas Day. Along the way, viewers experience the natural - and human - world from a strangely moving perspective.
Neste especial de Natal, Scooby-Doo e a gangue participam de uma parada natalina na qual encontram uma torre de relógio abandonada e assombrada com um passado complicado. Enquanto isso, um misterioso boneco de neve assombra as ruas acompanhado por uma terrível nevasca, ameaçando fechar a loja de brinquedos da cidade para sempre.
A modern version of the classic Dickens tale, in which Eddie Scrooge is a mean loan shark who sees the error of his ways.
The Nutcracker and the Mouse King is a story written in 1816 by E. T. A. Hoffmann in which young Marie Stahlbaum's favorite Christmas toy, the Nutcracker, comes alive and, after defeating the evil Mouse King in battle, whisks her away to a magical kingdom populated by dolls. In 1892, the Russian composer Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky and choreographers Marius Petipa and Lev Ivanov turned Alexandre Dumas père's adaptation of the story into the ballet The Nutcracker, which became one of Tchaikovsky's most famous compositions, and perhaps the most popular ballet in the world.
George, o macaquinho mais curioso do mundo, estrela mais uma história divertida e educativa. Nesta nova aventura, George e O Homem do Chapéu Amarelo estão contando os dias para o Natal.
Para o investigador Peter Hunter, a onda de crimes realizados há anos em uma cidade tinham algo em comum: todas envolviam o departamento de polícia. O que ele não esperava era o fato de ser uma das vítimas desta conspiração. Agora existem duas opções: abandonar o caso ou perder a vida.
Nesse especial de Natal, Darby incentiva seus amigos a tornarem-se “superdetetives”. Na noite de Natal, Pooh e seus amigos encontram a sacola mágica de brinquedos do Papai Noel junto a uma pequena rena perdida. Agora, os “superdetetives” precisam encontrar um jeito de mandá-los de volta ao Pólo Norte. Nessa divertida aventura, eles logo vão descobrir o verdadeiro espírito de Natal.
Bob the Tomato and Larry the Cucumber appear as Cavis Appythart and Millward Phelps, respectively--two jingle writers based loosely on Gilbert and Sullivan. The setting is 1880s London, and they've written a musical called "The Princess and the Plumber", which they plan to open on Christmas Eve. Cavis thinks the production will "teach London how to love". But children at nearby St. Bart's Church are planning a nativity play for the same evening, and they plan to feature the Star of Christmas, a religious artifact unseen by the public for decades. The London Post Gazette writes a front-page story about the nativity play and the Star, and Cavis and Millward hatch a plan to make their musical better than the children's play. In the end, they learn about the true meaning of Christmas.
Baseado em uma história verídica onde mineiros de carvão ficaram subterrâneo presos em uma caverna na véspera do Natal de 1951.