Some rays of sunshine trickle into Willie’s dark, boozy world in the form of a horny bartender with a Saint Nick fetish ( Lauren Graham of “ Gilmore Girls”) and an overweight, underloved kid who frequently finds himself a target of bullies. Billy Bob Thornton, a born outlaw if ever there was one, plays Willie Stokes, a piece-of-shit crook moonlighting as a mall Santa Claus, with his pint-sized, foul-mouthed partner Marcus as an attending elf. Which is to say there’s bouts of sloppy jacuzzi sex, conspicuous binge-drinking and more creatively colorful profanity than a hundred “ South Park” episodes. There’s rum in the egg nog in Terry Zwigoff’s “Bad Santa,” and maybe a little bit of puke too: unlike some of the more kid-friendly entries on this list, this no-holds-barred comedy is a 100%, unapologetically adults-only affair. But the two are as good as ever when given a chance, the film makes good use of the music throughout, and there’s a level of imagination at play that should still capture the attention of kids who aren’t checking Twitter every five minutes…
Surprisingly convoluted plot wise and even surprisingly scary by the time bogeymen invade at the end, the film perhaps suffers in comparison to Laurel & Hardy’s best by letting the comedy take a back seat to the plot and adventure elements. The two play Stannie and Ollie, two toymaker’s assistants who live in a shoe in Toyland who try to raise money to stop the evil Silas ( Henry Kleinbach) from forcing Bow Peep ( Florence Roberts) to marry him against his will. If it does not quite encompass Laurel & Hardy’s finest hour, the film is certainly one of their most imaginative and family-friendly efforts.
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Perhaps a Christmas movie more out of its association with a shitload of toys than because of a seasonal vibe (though Santa Claus does make an appearance), “Babes In Toyland,” a very loose adaptation of the operetta of the same name, is another movie that became a holiday TV staple, airing on New York’s WPIX for many years. The Christmas backdrop elevates the fairy tale feel of the story, even if it’s a bittersweet one for much of its running time, and the perfect climax to a perfect film warms your heart like chestnuts roasting on an open fire. Though often incredibly funny, Wilder’s film stands apart from other holiday films by its rich vein of melancholy, and none more so than during arguably the movie’s most memorable stretch, involving a Christmas party where everyone finds out everything that’s going on, and Lemmon finds MacLaine having attempted suicide in his apartment, and then spends several days with her while she recuperates. Kubelik ( Shirley MacLaine), who is in fact the mistress of his boss Sheldrake ( Fred MacMurray). Billy Wilder’s film, maybe the greatest romantic comedy ever made, stars Jack Lemmon as an ambitious, lonely office drone who lets his higher-ups use his apartment for their extra-marital affairs. Perhaps more than anything else, this makes “The Apartment” a Christmas movie: though it spans a few months and climaxes memorably on New Year’s Eve, the film makes as great a use of the holidays as anything else here. If a Christmas-time setting is useful for anything, it’s often to play up a sense of loneliness in a character -the holidays are meant to be a time to spend with loved ones and family, and you can isolate a character beautifully by the simple means of surrounding them with festive revels.
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