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Day 29: A holiday movie that makes you laugh....

A newish one...
Dashing through the Snow
 

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Day 29: A holiday movie that makes you laugh
I last saw this when I was 9 years old and I cried laughing then.
I'm not 100% sure it'd hit the same way if I watched it now.
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Day 29: A holiday movie that makes you laugh

Another take on ol' Chuckie D's Christmas story. Except in this one, Ebenezer Blackadder is the kindest, gentlest, givingest man in all of Victorian England. On Christmas Eve, the Spirit of Christmas (Robbie Coltrane) shows up to congratulate him on being the nicest man in England, and takes him into the past to see his ancestors, the protagonists of Blackadder II and Blackadder the Third. After seeing two versions of a distant future, one if he chose to be as good as he was now, and one if he chose to be more like his ancestors, Ebenezer learns "the very clear lesson that bad guys have all the fun." God save us, everyone...

With Rowan Atkinson, Tony Robinson, Steven Fry, Hugh Laurie, Jim Broadbent, Miranda Richardson, and Robbie Coltrane, they could read the Terms and Conditions of your health care plan and it would be hilarious. This is better.

Blackadder's Christmas Carol (1988)

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"'Christmas' has an H in it, Mr Baldrick. And an R. Also an I and an S; also a T, an M, an A, and another S. Oh, and you've missed out the C at the beginning."
 
@lavendersilk
Just to clarify today's prompt... it says "A holiday movie... with a Christmas party... that ISN'T a Christmas movie..."
A holiday movie that isn't a Christmas movie, but still has a Christmas party? That's gotta be a very narrow niche.
Or did you mean a non-holiday movie?
 
Unhelpful. :ROFLMAO:

I'll just go with any old movie with a Christmas party.
Like the creepily unsettling Christmas party after the Lufthansa heist, when Robert DeNiro is getting paranoid and starts berating everyone who's spending the stolen money, leading to him eventually kill off all the accomplices and anyone who could be a witness. Joyeaux Noel!


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@lavendersilk today is a hard one. I'm thinking about repeating one the movies I posted already. There's another one I can post that is a stretch.

I have two good possibilities for tomorrow though. 😁
 
Day 30: A holiday movie with a Christmas party that isn't a Christmas movie

But the inclusion of a Christmas party makes a movie a Christmas movie? πŸ₯Ί I don't make the rules so I will do my best to keep to the spirit of the prompt! Desk Set fits more or less 😊

 
Day 30: A holiday movie with a Christmas party that isn't a Christmas movie

But the inclusion of a Christmas party makes a movie a Christmas movie? πŸ₯Ί I don't make the rules so I will do my best to keep to the spirit of the prompt! Desk Set fits more or less 😊

Nah. It's just part of the setting. For me a Christmas movie means the theme of Christmas runs throughout the movie not just a scene.
 
Nah. It's just part of the setting. For me a Christmas movie means the theme of Christmas runs throughout the movie not just a scene.
Fair. But I'm still going to consider these movies Christmas movies in my house so I have an excuse to rewatch them in December πŸ€·πŸ»β€β™€οΈ
 
Day 30: A holiday movie with a Christmas party that isn't a Christmas movie

You have movies with a Christmas party where the focus in absolutely on the holiday. Then you have movies with a Christmas party where the focus is absolutely on the party. The Thin Man is very much the second. Nick Charles retired from the detective game when he married Nora, a wealthy heiress. But the detective game wanted another try. There is a mystery, and a murder, and one of the grandest Christmas Eve parties ever thrown (I would love to spend a Christmas Eve in an expensive hotel throwing a party). It is also the drinkingest drinking movie of all time. ("Highballs and cocktails - the long and short of it," as Nick says, which is an utterly but subtly filthy line in context.) But all of it pales to the chemistry between Myrna Loy and William Powell as Nora and Nick Charles. (Raymond Chandler, who wrote the novel of the same name, based their banter on his on-again-off-again relationship with the brilliant playwright Lillian Hellman.) There is such a respect and trust in the interplay between Loy and Powell, something that is rare in any day and age. Nick and Nora are fantastic on screen, and were the first couple on film where the marriage wasn't the end of adventuring, it was the start. They are romantic and sexy and fun, and the movie was such a joy it spawned multiple sequels. I recommend this movie any time of the year, but especially during the holidays. Don't forget the cocktails.

"The important thing is the rhythm. Always have rhythm in your shaking. Now a Manhattan you shake to fox-trot time, a Bronx to two-step time, a dry martini you always shake to waltz time." (Please stir my martini, Nick, but do so at waltz time).

The Thin Man (1934)
 
Day 31: A holiday movie with a New Year's Eve party

A holiday movie, not a holiday movie, argue amongst yourselves -- it is widely considered the finest film ever made. And it has a New Year's Eve party scene. An epic New Year's Eve party scene. Even has a New Years Kiss. Well, a New Year's Kiss of Death. Probably shouldn't have helped to try to murder your brother there, Fredo. There are lines civil people do not cross.


The Godfather Part II (1974)

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Happy New Year, everyone! Make a resolution not to betray your crime boss brother! He may get cross if you break his heart.
 
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Day 31: A holiday movie with a New Year's Eve party

since the Godfather 2 was taken I will take the 2nd best movie with a New Year's party...the train scene takes place on New Year's Eve...
 
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