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Nov 9, 2023 · Indeed, the city has played host to several great Christmas flicks in its own right. In putting together this list of the best of them, we avoided the avalanche of Lifetime and Hallmark movies...
- Emma Krupp
Watching A Bad Moms Christmas today made me realize: a lot of Christmas movies are set in Chicagoland. Think about it: Christmas Vacation, The Santa Claus movies, the aforementioned ABMC, Home Alone. A Christmas Story is set in nearby northern Indiana.
- Home Alone (PG) Chris Columbus and John Hughes team up to create one of the most famous Christmas movies of all time. This Guinness record holder, as the highest grossing live-action comedy for 27 years, which catapulted Macaulay Culkin into one of the most famous child stars for his performance as Kevin McCallister.
- Office Christmas Party ( R ) Not only does this hilarious and raunchy Christmas film take place in Chicago, it’s also actually filmed there! It’s obvious that the teams who brought us films such as The Switch and The Hangover chose to include the Windy City as one of the characters in this ensemble cast that also includes Jennifer Aniston, Jason Bateman, T.J.
- While You Were Sleeping (PG) On Christmas day Peter (Peter Gallagher) is pushed off the platform onto the tracks while waiting for a train and Chicago Transit Authority token collector, Lucy (Sandra Bullock) jumps down to save his life before the train comes.
- Surviving Christmas (PG-13) Wealthy douchebag Drew Latham (Ben Affleck) invites his girlfriend Missy (Jennifer Morrison) on a first class trip to Fiji for Christmas vacation.
Dec 7, 2022 · by Marah Eakin December 7, 2022. Throughline Films shoots Crafted for Christmas at OatFlow Cafe in Long Grove, Illinois. Kirk Williamson for Chicago Reader. Why do so many Christmas movies take...
- Marah Eakin
- Office Christmas Party (2016) - Stream on Paramount+
- A Bad Moms Christmas (2017) - Stream on Fubo TV
- Surviving Christmas (2004) - Stream on Paramount+
- Christmas Lost & Found (2018) - Stream on PlutoTV
- The Princess Switch (2018) - Stream on Netflix
- Christmas with The Kranks (2004) - Stream on Starz
- Christmas Vacation (1989) - Stream on HBO Max
- Planes, Trains, and Automobiles (1987) - Rent on Amazon Prime
- Home Alone (1990) - Stream on Disney+
In Office Christmas Party, a disastrous year for a company in downtown Chicago leads to threats of numerous layoffs and pay cuts. Desperate to keep the company's spirits up, an employee puts together an elaborate Christmas party, even inviting the Chicago Bulls' Jimmy Butler to make an appearance. However, after hearing that the office is being shu...
Though shot completely in Atlanta, A Bad Moms Christmas is set in Chicago. The story follows up on the original film and centers on Mila Kunis, Kathryn Hahn, and Kristen Bell as they spend the holidays with their own moms (played by Susan Sarandon, Christine Baranski, and Cheryl Hines). Fortunately, according to the Chicago Sun-Times, Kathryn Hahn,...
Some holiday films are poorly received but become more beloved with age...others, however, just remain poorly received. Surviving Christmas, starring Ben Affleck, Christina Applegate, and Catherine O'Hara, had great potential to be a holiday classic. RELATED: Ben Affleck's 5 Best (& 5 Worst) Movies, According To IMDb The film centers around a neuro...
No city is safe from the endless array of cheesy made-for-TV Christmas movies, and Chicago has its own with Lifetime's Christmas Lost & Found. In the film, Whitney, a high-strung busy New York City businesswoman returns home to Chicago for the first time in years. Her grandmother gives her the family's precious heirloom ornaments, but Whitney carel...
After seeing the success Hallmark and Lifetime were having with cheesy Christmas films, Netflix decided to get in the game too. Their most notable entry is Vanessa Hudgens' The Princess Switch, which stars the former High School Musicalactress as Stacy, a baker in Chicago (who, of course, is recently single). RELATED: 10 Romantic Holiday Movies To ...
Based on Skipping Christmas, the popular novel by John Grisham, Christmas with the Kranksstarred Tim Allen and Jamie Lee Curtis as two parents who decide to skip Christmas after discovering their daughter won't be coming home for the holidays. The movie is set in a Chicago suburb but was actually filmed in a now-demolished studio backlot outside of...
1989'sChristmas Vacation, the third film in the Vacationseries, is a perennial favorite that continues to be watched religiously by fans more than 30 years after its release. The film follows the Griswold family in their Chicago suburb home as they host their cantankerous extended family for what's supposed to be a joyous Christmas. RELATED: 10 Bes...
1987's Planes, Trains, and Automobiles is a comedy classicthat's still loved today. It's about two men in New York City (played by comedy legends Steve Martin and John Candy) who are desperate to make it back to Chicago in time for Thanksgiving. However, after bad weather diverts thair plane to Kansas, the two try everything they can to get home, t...
The world has never quite been the same since Kevin McCalister was left home alone on the days leading up to Christmas back in 1990. As everyone knows, in Home Alone Kevin fights off the "Wet Bandits" using some fantastic one-linersand a few truly creative inventions using household objects '90s technology. The movie is based in the Chicago suburb ...
Sep 12, 2022 · Chicago has been a city that filmmakers love to shoot in, and it's one of those cities that becomes a character itself, just like New York or Los Angeles. Several Christmas films take place there, as do many coming-of-age flicks and mob movies, and the movies' setting is part of what makes them great.
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Dec 21, 2023 · But if you’re newer to Chi-Town, then allow us to introduce the best Chicago Christmas movies that’ll transport you to the beloved city and get you in the holiday spirit.
