EVERYBODY looks forward to the Christmas break. One of the best ways to spend it is to slouch around the living room watching your favorite movies with the people very close to you, armed with buckets and buckets of popcorn. Here are recommended home videos that you would want to watch again and again and again.
School is Cool
No matter how some loathe school, we still keep on coming to classes every day. Whether we admit it or not, we like school. We meet the best people we can ever meet in school and learn the most important lessons we’ll never find written in the books.
Cheaters (Jeff Daniels, Paul Sorvino, Jena Malone, Luke Edwards, Blake Heron)
A teacher of a public high school gives his students a chance to compete in an academic decathlon. When daily after-class reviews are not enough to win against a better-funded school, he finds the best answer to his problem: cheating. So he teaches them to cheat and lie. In the end, he is still the best teacher they’d ever had.
Deadman On Campus (Tom Everett Scott, Mark-Paul Gosselaar)
Two college students and dormmates are failing the semester! They discover a strange campus clause that grants straight A’s to the roommates of a suicide victim. The objective of the rule was to spare the remaining roomates from the added pressure of having to study hard after such a traumatic experience. Desperate to earn the exemption, the two guys start to search for a new suicidal roommate.
Teaching Mrs. Tingle (Helen Millen, Katie Holmes, Marissa Coughlan, Barry Watson)
Three best friends are falsely accused of cheating and are about to fail their History class. They have to prove their innocence and find their way out of an impossible situation. One of them is Leigh (Holmes), a student who has done the right thing all her life and must get an “A” to score that scholarship out of town.
Girls on Top
Superman is not always there every time we plunge into stressful situations. It’s a good thing there are real life wonder women who are not just about cool wardrobe and fabulous make-up. They also have real super powers to beat the bad guys and save the day.
Dick (Kirsten Dunst, Michelle Williams, Dan Hedaya, Will Ferrel, David Foley)
Two high school girls wander off during a class trip to the White House and meet President Richard Nixon. They end up being the official walker of his dog, Checkers, and secret advisors of Dick during the Watergate scandal. Colorful outfits plus a lively soundtrack, you’ll surely get hooked onto this history-challenging comedy.
Legally Blonde (Reese Witherspoon, Matthew Davis, Selma Blair, Luke Wilson, Victor Garber)
Elle Woods (Witherspoon) has it all. She is the president of her sorority, a Hawaiian Tropic girl, Miss June in her campus calendar. She dates the cutest fraternity boy and wants nothing more than to marry him. But he dumps her and packs up for Harvard Law to reunite with an old sweetheart from prep when she has to choose between the guy of her fantasies and the real guy next door.
Dude Where’s My Car? (Ashton Kutcher, Sean William Scott, Jennifer Garner, Marla Sokoloff, Hal Sparks)
They wake up one morning and their stash is gone, Jesse’s (Kutcher) car is gone, their girlfriends, the twins, and the boys can’t remember anything from the night before. They set out a journey to figure out what happened. As Jesse and Chester (Scott) retrace their steps, they discover that the night before, they had lost a suitcase full of cash, met a gorgeous gender-challenged stripper and six sexy alien women. And now they are caught up in the middle of an inter-galactic war with the fate of the universe in their hands!
Keeping the Christmas Spirit
Cold weather, beautifully wrapped presents under the Christmas tree, harmonic carols, and lots of bright colors in the street define Christmas time in the city. These things help on motivating people for celebrating the Yuletide season when everything just seem to be depressing. And when things are depressing, we cling to the most important people in out lives— our family.
Home Alone (Macaulay Culkin, Joe Pesci, and Daniel Stern, John Heard, Catherine O’Hara)
A large family accidentally leaves their youngest member, Kevin (Culkin), at home as they go off on their vacation in France for Christmas. He is forced to learn to feed himself, manage the house, and defend himself from burglars by undeniably strange traps .
Jingle All The Way (Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson, Robert Conrad)
Turbo Man action dolls are the Christmas craze and is absolutely the toy of the season. A neglected son wants nothing else but this gift for Christmas. So the guilty dad (Schwarzenegger) fights over everything that gets on his quest for that last piece of Turbo Man doll.
The Grinch (Jim Carrey, Anthony Hopkins, Molly Shannon, Jeffrey Tambor, Verne Troyer)
A freakish green monster living in the mountainside cave disguises himself as Santa Clause and steals the Christmas goodies from every single home in Whoville. This is the live-action adaptation of the famous Christmas tale by Dr. Seuss’ How The Grinch Stole Christmas.
