Best Christmas Movie Evah!

I guess everybody has to blog about this. Favorite movies, favorite carols, favorite memories, favorite yadas.

First let me get this out of the way.

I love Jimmy Stewart.

I adore Jimmy Stewart.

And every time "It's a Wonderful Life" comes on, I want to bitch-slap everybody in it.

Especially Jimmy Stewart.

"Miracle on Whatever-that-was Street?" Bah, humbug.

"A Christmas Story?" Yawn.

Now, I do like "While You Were Sleeping" bunches. That's a lovely feel-good Christmas-time movie, and that cute Sandy Bullock, I could just eat her with a spoon.

BUT -- the best Christmas movie ever HAS to be filled with salaciousness, with tawdriness, with back-biting and scheming and strategizing and passion and love and love lost and mayhem.

Mommy has been locked up in prison for ten years but has been granted a holiday leave -- by Daddy. (One can hardly blame him -- Mommy raised an army against him and tried to take him out.)

Daddy's sleeping with oldest son's fiance. Oldest son is coming home and might, ahem, object.

Middle son and youngest son have their own "issues."

Ah, family values! Just what a little Christmas story needs.

Katherine Hepburn!

Peter O'Toole!

Anthony Hopkins!

Timothy Dalton!

What more could you possibly ask for?

The Lion in Winter.

"What family doesn't have its ups and downs?"

Go forth and see it!