St. Charles Public Library - Winter Holiday Movies

A wild and wacky comedy about oddball characters in Los Angeles at Christmastime, centered around a suicide hotline service.

Christmas with the Kranks: When only child, Blair leaves the family nest, Luther and Nora decide to book an cruise and skip Christmas altogether. Their decision to boycott tradition has the whole neighborhood in an uproar, and when Blair calls on Christmas Eve to announce a surprise visit with her new fianče, the Kranks have just twelve hours to perform a miracle and pull themselves and their neighbors together to throw the best celebration ever. The...

When a veterinarian sets out to have the perfect Christmas, she assumes it's going to be with her longtime boyfriend. But when a storm shuts down the airport, she crosses paths with a doctor and his daughter. What transpires will give them all a Christmas more magical than they could've imagined.

Single mom Maggie is trying to maintain the balance of being devoted to son, Jordan, while having a career. Jordan needs help at school and meets Casey, a tutor. They quickly bond, and Casey becomes more like a father figure. What he wishes most, however, is for his mom to find happiness and love again at Christmas. With the help of faith and fate, Maggie discovers anything is possible.

Disillusioned journalist Tom Langdon must get from Washington, D.C. to L.A. in time for Christmas. Forced to travel by train, he begins a journey of rude awakenings, thrilling adventures, and holiday magic. He has no idea that the locomotives pulling him across America will actually take him into the rugged terrain of his own heart, as he rediscovers people's essential goodness and someone very special he believed he had lost.

It's Christmas and Miranda leaves Seattle with a suitcase full of presents to join her long lost family in Carlton Heath, where she will experience the joyful traditions she missed as a child. But this Christmas, she fears the warm welcome she received from the Whitcomb family will soon turn cold when Miranda receives an anonymous text from someone who threatens to expose her identity.

A misunderstood convict and a troubled GI meet on furlough and try to crowd a lifetime of love and laughter into eight days of happiness in this tender wartime love story.

"One of the most famous actresses in the world heads to the Christmas-obsessed town of Homestead, Iowa, to shoot a holiday-themed movie. She is thrown for a loop when she begins to have feelings for Matt, a local innkeeper and single dad. As she gets a taste of small-town life, she discovers the true meaning of Christmas"--Container.