Christmas Comedy of Modern Era
by mainemoviefanaticDaisy | created - 04 Sep 2011 | updated - 06 Dec 2011 | PublicComedic Christmas Movies of the Modern Era. Be sure to check out my other Christmas lists.
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1. Christmas in Wonderland (2006)
PG | 95 min | Comedy, Crime, Family
Three children and their father move from Los Angeles, California to Edmonton, Alberta. When they go shopping at West Edmonton Mall, they find counterfeit cash, inadvertently help catch crooks, and make a discovery about Santa.
Director: James Orr | Stars: Matthew Knight, Chris Kattan, Cameron Bright, Preston Lacy
Votes: 2,466 | Gross: $0.08M
Part of a Holiday 4 Film Collector's Set with 3 dramas. If you like this family adventure, check out Unaccompanied Minors.
2. Mr. St. Nick (2002 TV Movie)
TV-G | 100 min | Comedy, Fantasy
King Nicholas XX is ready to retire and pass the throne to his son, Nick St. Nicholas. But he is a no-show, preferring his lavish seaside lifestyle and sexy girlfriend. Only a miracle can save Christmas.
Director: Craig Zisk | Stars: Kelsey Grammer, Elaine Hendrix, Brian Bedford, Ana Ortiz
Votes: 869
I really like this one.
3. Once Upon a Christmas (2000 TV Movie)
G | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
Discouraged by a lack of Christmas spirit, Santa wants to quit, but his daughter Kristin begs for one more chance to prove to him that there is hope for the world.
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: John Dye, Kathy Ireland, Mary Donnelly Haskell, Liz Torres
Votes: 944
4. Twice Upon a Christmas (2001 TV Movie)
TV-G | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
When the North Pole faces destruction at the hands of Santa Claus' malicious daughter, her long-lost sister must travel home and save Christmas.
Director: Tibor Takács | Stars: John Dye, Kathy Ireland, Mary Donnelly Haskell, Wayne Thomas Yorke
Votes: 691
5. Call Me Claus (2001 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 90 min | Comedy, Family
Lucy's a producer on a home shopping channel. She hires the real Santa as Santa. He has to find his replacement as the real Santa in 4 weeks. Lucy is unknowingly the only candidate left.
Director: Peter Werner | Stars: Whoopi Goldberg, Nigel Hawthorne, Brian Stokes Mitchell, Victor Garber
Votes: 2,828
6. Santa Claus: The Movie (1985)
PG | 107 min | Adventure, Family, Fantasy
The legend of Santa Claus is put in jeopardy when an unscrupulous toy manufacturer attempts to take over Christmas.
Director: Jeannot Szwarc | Stars: Dudley Moore, John Lithgow, David Huddleston, Burgess Meredith
Votes: 15,604 | Gross: $23.72M
7. The Santa Clause (1994)
PG | 97 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
When a man inadvertently makes Santa fall off his roof on Christmas Eve, he finds himself magically recruited to take his place.
Director: John Pasquin | Stars: Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Wendy Crewson, Eric Lloyd
Votes: 133,445 | Gross: $144.83M
8. The Santa Clause 2 (2002)
G | 104 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Scott Calvin has been a humble Santa Claus for eight years, but it might come to an end if he doesn't find a Mrs. Claus.
Director: Michael Lembeck | Stars: Tim Allen, Spencer Breslin, Elizabeth Mitchell, Eric Lloyd
Votes: 63,919 | Gross: $139.24M
9. A Christmas Story (1983)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Family
In the 1940s, a young boy named Ralphie Parker attempts to convince his parents, teacher, and Santa Claus that a Red Ryder Range 200 Shot BB gun really is the perfect Christmas gift.
Director: Bob Clark | Stars: Peter Billingsley, Melinda Dillon, Darren McGavin, Scott Schwartz
Votes: 168,638 | Gross: $20.61M
10. Unaccompanied Minors (2006)
PG | 90 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A group of unaccompanied minors bond while snowed in at the midwestern Hoover International Airport during the holiday season and ultimately create a makeshift holiday themselves.
Director: Paul Feig | Stars: Dyllan Christopher, Tyler James Williams, Gia Mantegna, Quinn Shephard
Votes: 12,429 | Gross: $16.65M
If you like this family adventure, check out Christmas in Wonderland.
11. Christmas in the Clouds (2001)
PG | 96 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
During the holidays at a ski resort in Utah run by a Native American tribe, the overworked manager and a widowed woman from the big city overcome mistaken identities and intrusive guests in their pursuit of romance.
Director: Kate Montgomery | Stars: Timothy Vahle, Sam Vlahos, Mariana Tosca, M. Emmet Walsh
Votes: 890
Romantic Comedy based on mistaken identity.
12. Christmas Do-Over (2006 TV Movie)
PG | 90 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Kevin tries to be involved with his son and ex-wife's family for Christmas. During dinner, he thought his Christmas *day* couldn't be more screwed; his son suddenly wishes it was Christmas ... See full summary »
Director: Catherine Cyran | Stars: Jay Mohr, Daphne Zuniga, David Millbern, Adrienne Barbeau
Votes: 1,415
Christmas meets Groundhog Day.
13. All I Want for Christmas (1991)
G | 92 min | Comedy, Family, Romance
A brother and sister attempt to bring their divorced parents back together for Christmas.
Director: Robert Lieberman | Stars: Harley Jane Kozak, Jamey Sheridan, Ethan Embry, Kevin Nealon
Votes: 5,595 | Gross: $14.81M
Family Adventure - children trying to get their parents back together.
14. Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus (2004 TV Movie)
96 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
Santa's son and successor is looking for a suitable Mrs. Claus before he can take over the family business.
Director: Harvey Frost | Stars: Steve Guttenberg, Crystal Bernard, Dominic Scott Kay, Thomas Calabro
Votes: 1,592
Double Feature with A Boyfriend for Christmas
15. A Boyfriend for Christmas (2004 TV Movie)
TV-G | 94 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
On Christmas Day, Santa brings two lonely people together. But can love overcome deception?
Director: Kevin Connor | Stars: Kelli Williams, Patrick Muldoon, Charles Durning, Bruce Thomas
Votes: 3,441
Double Feature with Single Santa Seeks Mrs. Claus
16. Holiday in Handcuffs (2006 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 86 min | Comedy, Drama, Family
A struggling artist working as a waitress kidnaps one of her customers to take home to meet her parents at Christmastime.
Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: Melissa Joan Hart, Mario Lopez, Timothy Bottoms, Markie Post
Votes: 7,555
Triple Feature with Snow/Snow 2
17. Snowglobe (2007 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 86 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A young woman discovers a Christmas-themed dreamworld inside a magical snowglobe.
Director: Ron Lagomarsino | Stars: Christina Milian, Erin Karpluk, Hilda Doherty, Jason Schombing
Votes: 2,783
Triple Feature with Santa Baby 2/Christmas in Boston
18. The Holiday (2006)
PG-13 | 136 min | Comedy, Romance
Two women troubled with guy-problems swap homes in each other's countries, where they each meet a local guy and fall in love.
Director: Nancy Meyers | Stars: Kate Winslet, Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Jack Black
Votes: 323,125 | Gross: $63.22M
Romantic Comedy at the holiday.
19. Unlikely Angel (1996 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 95 min | Comedy, Fantasy
Dolly Parton portrays a country-music performer who meets an untimely demise, but cannot enter heaven until she performs a good deed back on Earth: to reunite a workaholic widower with his children for Christmas.
Director: Michael Switzer | Stars: Dolly Parton, Roddy McDowall, Brian Kerwin, Allison Mack
Votes: 1,226
20. Eve's Christmas (2004 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 96 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
A wealthy and successful career woman gets a second chance in life when a magical wish transports her back in time eight years to when she walked away from her fiance to lead a business life in New York.
Director: Timothy Bond | Stars: Elisa Donovan, Sebastian Spence, Cheryl Ladd, Winston Rekert
Votes: 1,221
21. A Dennis the Menace Christmas (2007 Video)
G | 83 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
To make sure that his beloved neighbour, Mr Wilson, has the perfect Christmas, the neighbourhood's lively six-year-old boy, Dennis Mitchell, makes a long list of things one needs to make it work. However, is Mr Wilson willing to change?
Director: Ron Oliver | Stars: Maxwell Perry Cotton, Robert Wagner, Louise Fletcher, Isaac Durnford
Votes: 2,235
22. The 12 Dogs of Christmas (2004 Video)
G | 102 min | Drama, Family
A girl who uses dogs to teach people about the true meaning of Christmas during the Depression.
Director: Kieth Merrill | Stars: Jordan-Claire Green, Tom Kemp, Susan Wood, Adam Hicks
Votes: 1,029
23. Deck the Halls (2006)
PG | 93 min | Comedy, Family
Two neighbors have it out after one of them decorates his house for the holidays so brightly that it can be seen from space.
Director: John Whitesell | Stars: Matthew Broderick, Danny DeVito, Kristin Chenoweth, Kristin Davis
Votes: 33,170 | Gross: $35.09M
24. Christmas with the Kranks (2004)
PG | 99 min | Comedy, Family
With their daughter, Blair, away in Peru, Luther and Nora Krank decide to skip Christmas all together until she decides to come home, causing an uproar when they have to celebrate it at the last minute.
Director: Joe Roth | Stars: Tim Allen, Jamie Lee Curtis, Dan Aykroyd, M. Emmet Walsh
Votes: 57,602 | Gross: $73.78M
25. Jingle All the Way (1996)
PG | 89 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
A father vows to get his son a Turbo Man action figure for Christmas. However, every store is sold out, and he must travel all over town and compete with everybody else in order to find one.
Director: Brian Levant | Stars: Arnold Schwarzenegger, Sinbad, Phil Hartman, Rita Wilson
Votes: 116,178 | Gross: $60.57M
26. Elf (2003)
PG | 97 min | Adventure, Comedy, Family
Raised as an oversized elf, Buddy travels from the North Pole to New York City to meet his biological father, Walter Hobbs, who doesn't know he exists and is in desperate need of some Christmas spirit.
Director: Jon Favreau | Stars: Will Ferrell, James Caan, Bob Newhart, Zooey Deschanel
Votes: 310,890 | Gross: $173.40M
27. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (2000)
PG | 104 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
On the outskirts of Whoville lives a green, revenge-seeking Grinch who plans to ruin Christmas for all of the citizens of the town.
Director: Ron Howard | Stars: Jim Carrey, Taylor Momsen, Kelley, Jeffrey Tambor
Votes: 291,607 | Gross: $260.04M
28. Christmas Vacation (1989)
PG-13 | 97 min | Comedy
The Griswold family's plans for a big family Christmas predictably turn into a big disaster.
Director: Jeremiah S. Chechik | Stars: Chevy Chase, Beverly D'Angelo, Juliette Lewis, Johnny Galecki
Votes: 220,177 | Gross: $71.32M
It's part of the Vacation Collection 4 pack.
29. Christmas Vacation 2: Cousin Eddie's Island Adventure (2003 TV Movie)
TV-14 | 83 min | Comedy
A holiday to the South Pacific goes awry when Cousin Eddie's family and a tour guide are shipwrecked on an island.
Director: Nick Marck | Stars: Kate Simmons, Jake Thomas, Randy Quaid, Fred Willard
Votes: 3,863
30. His and Her Christmas (2005 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 89 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Tom Lane is the star columnist for the media conglomerate owned San Francisco Sun newspaper. The company is thinking about increasing Tom's exposure by producing a new television show ... See full summary »
Director: Farhad Mann | Stars: Dina Meyer, David Sutcliffe, April Telek, Kyle Cassie
Votes: 738
Double Feature with Will You Merry Me?
31. Will You Merry Me? (2008 TV Movie)
PG | 89 min | Comedy, Romance
Rebecca and Hank are ready to marry, and must now meet each others families who couldn't be more different. Set during two important religious holidays, the couple must go through the anxiety-filled process of meeting the in-laws.
Director: Nisha Ganatra | Stars: Wendie Malick, Cynthia Stevenson, Vikki Krinsky, Tommy Lioutas
Votes: 821
Double Feature with His & Her Christmas
32. Snijeg (2008)
100 min | Drama
Post traumatic life of the Bosnian Muslim widows and daughters after their husbands and fathers were murdered by Bosnian Serb Army. Plot is set in post war eastern Bosnian village near town of Zvornik.
Director: Aida Begic | Stars: Zana Marjanovic, Jasna Beri, Sadzida Setic, Vesna Masic
Votes: 1,150
Triple Feature with Snow 2/Holiday in Handcuffs
33. Snow 2: Brain Freeze (2008 TV Movie)
84 min | Family, Fantasy
It's three days before Christmas, and Nick Snowden forgets about spending early Christmas with his wife, Sandy due to pressure at work. After a fight, Nick walks through a magical mirror ... See full summary »
Director: Mark Rosman | Stars: Tom Cavanagh, Ashley Williams, Lynley Hall, Janelle Cooper
Votes: 1,169
Triple Feature with Snow/Holiday in Handcuffs
34. Santa Baby (2006 TV Movie)
PG | 89 min | Animation, Comedy, Fantasy
Mary Class is a highly successful business executive - who just happens to be the daughter of Santa Claus. But when her father falls ill, Mary returns to the North Pole and the life she ... See full summary »
Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg, Ivan Sergei, George Wendt, Kandyse McClure
Votes: 1,845
35. Santa Baby 2: Christmas Maybe (2009 TV Movie)
PG | 80 min | Comedy, Family, Fantasy
When Santa goes missing, his daughter, Mary must save Christmas!
Director: Ron Underwood | Stars: Jenny McCarthy-Wahlberg, Mig Macario, Dean McDermott, Lorette Clow
Votes: 1,178
Triple Feature with Christmas in Boston/Snowglobe
36. Christmas in Boston (2005 TV Movie)
G | 90 min | Comedy, Romance
Gina and Seth have been pen pals for 13 years and now will have the chance to meet. Both used their best friends pictures to send to each other and now will let their friends meet.
Director: Neill Fearnley | Stars: Marla Sokoloff, Patrick J. Adams, Lindy Booth, Jonathan Cherry
Votes: 2,403
Triple Feature with Santa Baby 2/Snowglobe
37.
The Wonderful World of Disney (1997–2023)
Episode:
Santa Who?
(2000)
Not Rated | 92 min | Adventure, Comedy, Drama
Santa suffers a case of amnesia on the eve of his busiest season.
Director: William Dear | Stars: Leslie Nielsen, Steven Eckholdt, Robyn Lively, Max Morrow
Votes: 2,146
Double Feature with A Chance of Snow
38. A Chance of Snow (1998 TV Movie)
Not Rated | 87 min | Drama
After signing her divorce papers, a woman heads out to her Minnesota airport with her sister and daughters for a flight to her mother's home. At the airport, her sportswriter husband shows ... See full summary »
Director: Tony Bill | Stars: JoBeth Williams, Michael Ontkean, Barbara Barrie, Dey Young
Votes: 271
Double Feature with Santa Who?
39. If You Believe (1999 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 91 min | Comedy, Drama, Fantasy
A jaded book editor has nearly given up on happiness, until she bumps her head and gets a visit from her spunky younger self (Hayden Panettiere). Now, the cheerful, carefree seven-year old helps adult Susan rediscover her inner child.
Director: Alan Metzger | Stars: Ally Walker, Tom Amandes, Hayden Panettiere, Meredith McGeachie
Votes: 807
Double Feature with A Different Kind of Christmas
40. A Different Kind of Christmas (1995 TV Movie)
TV-PG | 90 min | Comedy, Drama, Romance
Although admitting, if confronted with the information, that he is also known by the name Robert George, a man moves into the town of Greendale in June purporting to be Santa Claus, ... See full summary »
Director: Tom McLoughlin | Stars: Shelley Long, Barry Bostwick, Nathan Lawrence, Nancy McLoughlin
Votes: 459
Double Feature with If You Believe
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