Top Ten Non Christmas, Christmas Movies
Christmas movies don’t always have to be about Christmas (you know, kids, presents, relatives). Here are ten movies set around Christmas but aren’t necessarily about Christmas.
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10. On Her Majesty’s Secret Service – James Bond falls in love and gets married and though our intrepid agent saves the world with alarming regularity, he has his long term commitment issues cured by an evil mastermind who celebrates Christmas.
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9. Three Days of the Condor – How better to spend the holidays than on the run after finding all your co-workers shot dead by a renegade cabal within the U.S. intelligence community?
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8. The Jacket – A Gulf War veteran is subjected to a sadistic experimental treatment for mental illness only to discover he died fourteen years earlier. Then he sleeps with Keira Knightly. Merry Christmas.
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7. Frozen River – To raise money for a double wide a woman smuggles illegal immigrants into the United States across the Canadian border. The double wide is her Christmas present to her sons.
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6. Enemy of the State – An old law school buddy slips a computer disk in your shopping bag as you buy lingerie for your wife’s Christmas present. Now the government will destroy your life to get it back.
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5. Donnie Brasco – An undercover cop develops an unhealthy relationship with an aging gangster. The cop’s wife disapproves when he misses Christmas with the family.
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4. Lethal Weapon – In an infinitely wise move, the LAPD pairs a retiring cop with a suicidal partner and sends them after international drug dealers. In return, the drug dealers kidnap the retiring cop’s daughter from under the Christmas tree.
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3. McCabe and Mrs. Miller – A gambler moves west to start a brothel at the turn of the century. Things go well until a potential buyout goes south. Let it snow, let it snow, let it snow.
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2. Eyes Wide Shut – Drugs, debauchery and orgies behind closed doors of the financially privileged. No one likes to be alone during the holidays.
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1. Die Hard – A cop must save his ex-wife from robbers masquerading as terrorists by blowing up a building during the company holiday party.
Posted: December 9th, 2009 under Commentary.
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