Hark! The Muppet Christmas Carol is on Disney+. Photo: Buena Vista Pictures It’s the most wonderful, streaming-est time of the year! Holiday movies are everywhere this season, including new, original films on Disney+, Netflix, and Hulu to go along with some of your family’s favorites. That’s the good news. The bad news is that a lot of the classic holiday movies that you know and love by heart aren’t available for your subscription fee.
Mickey’s Christmas Carol This may be a short film, but it’s a major one in Disney history. This was the first time that Mickey was in a production like this in three decades, as the short premiered in Christmas 1983 with the rerelease of The Rescuers, although most people have probably seen it in one of its many television airings over the years.
Netflix The ugly truth is that Netflix likes to fill their catalogue with things that you can watch while you’re doing other activities like playing with your phone. And so, a lot of their holiday movies are disposable background noise, most of them having aired on basic cable in the past few years. No offense to people who dig the melodramatic variation on the holiday movie, but those are largely interchangeable. Just pick one and go.
A Very Murray Christmas Sofia Coppola directed this original Netflix special that landed on the streaming service way back in 2015 and remains like nothing else you could watch this holiday season. Bill Murray and Coppola are working from an old-fashioned “get the gang together” template like Bob Hope used to employ for holiday specials. The gang in this case includes George Clooney, Amy Poehler, Michael Cera, Maya Rudolph, Rashida Jones, and Miley Cyrus.
Home for the Holidays Jodie Foster’s sophomore directorial effort is this wonderfully cast dramedy starring Holly Hunter as a woman in the midst of a midlife crisis who comes home to spend the holidays with her deeply dysfunctional family. The reason this movie works and has a legion of die-hard fans is its remarkable ensemble, including Hunter, Robert Downey Jr., Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Dylan McDermott, Geraldine Chaplin, Steve Guttenberg, and a young Claire Danes.
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