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Tangential Holiday Movies

Inspired by a thread my sister started on Facebook (whether she meant it to go in this direction or not is beside the point), I started wondering about movies that happen during the holidays where the holidays themselves are tangential to the plot (the action genre — and Home Alone for that matter — has been covered elsewhere).

I can think of several off the top of my head:

• Metropolitan is set during the holiday break from college.
• Desk Set has a Christmas party — and everybody getting fired for Christmas when the new computer goes haywire — but isn’t so much about Christmas.
• The Apartment establishes the pattern of events before the main plotline starts on Christmas Eve.
• When Harry Met Sally plays out over several holidays (the Christmas tree shopping, the big NYE climax) but it’s not really about them.

What other movies can you think of where the holidays are tangential to the plot?

Hey, Americans, dudes.

tbridge:

Christmas Season starts the day after American Thanksgiving. That’s just how it is. You want to start on 1 December, fab. Great. But Advent technically starts tomorrow, so technically British Christmas Season, as determined by the Church of England, starts tomorrow on 29 November. Just sayin.

inthefade:

bobbbyg:

sniffyjenkins:

Are you seriously putting up your trees and stuff already? Really? It’s effing November.

Wow. And I thought it was us Brits who lived in the future.

Look! There goes one of our flying cars right now.

Happy Easter!

Would everyone please stop what they are doing for a moment (yes, put down those Christmas lights that you are nailing to your house) and listen to this highly intelligent British woman? Thank you.

Christmas belongs in December. Period.

In our defense, it is November 28 and it’s a weekend. We’ve got to get this shit done while we can. It’s sort of not cold out today, which means we’re going to drag our Christmas stuff out of the garage because it could very well be blizzarding or at least freezing next weekend.

Plus, the is the first year since decades ago that I’m actually into the whole Christmas thing.

So, nyah.

In my high school chorus, Christmas music started in about October (right after the fall concert, if not before) because we had to have everything ready to go for corporate/charity events pretty early. Plus there was a radio station that would occasionally call us for stuff early so they could put it in canned promo spots. And that doesn’t even include the “turkey song” version of the Carol of the Bells, performed live on the radio every year (“gob gobble gob, gob gobble gob”).

Forget it, Jake. It’s Chinatown.