Top Five Holiday Movies

With the holidays here, many of us will be spending a lot of time with those people who are most important to us. Along those lines, I surveyed some of my family and friends, specifically those with whom I have watched the most movies during my lifetime, and asked for their five (5) favorite holiday movies. Coincidentally, they are the people (excluding the priest) who stood closest to me on the wedding altar. Feel free to discuss or add to you Netflix queue.

My List:
1. It's a Wonderful Life
2. About a Boy
3. Millions
4. Home Alone
5. Die Hard

About a Boy is a subtle Christmas movie, starting and ending with the holiday and relying on the royalties from "Santa's Super Sleigh." If that is too much of a stretch, you can switch it out with Brazil, which takes place completely at Christmastime, even though I do not really consider it to be a Christmas movie.

Jenn, my bride:
1. Love Actually
2. Millions
3. While You Were Sleeping
4. Family Man
5. Muppet Christmas Carol

K.C. (Br. Philip), my brother and best man:
1. It’s a Wonderful Life
2. Home Alone
3. Die Hard
4. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
5. Millions

I guess it makes sense that my brother and I would have so many similar favorite movies. We used to watch Home Alone every year together. We even quoted the Pepsi commercial at the beginning of the VHS tape. Unfortunately, the more current dvd did not retain the commercial.

Jamie, one of the groomsmen:
1. Bad Santa
2. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
3. Christmas Story
4. National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation
5. Love Actually

Brian, the other groomsmen: (in no particular order)
It's A Wonderful Life
Miracle on 34th Street
Christmas Eve on Sesame Street
Muppet Family Christmas
National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation

I welcome you to leave your suggestions for overlooked holiday films as a comment here or in an email.