Can You Guess the Holiday Movie From 3 Clues?

By: Mark Lichtenstein
Estimated Completion Time
4 min
Can You Guess the Holiday Movie From 3 Clues?
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Everyone sees holiday movies at some point in their lives. We see them as kids, and again when we have kids, or our family produces new ones. How familiar are you with these holiday movies?
Bruce Willis, Airport, "Yippee ki yay"
Die Hard
Die Hard 2: Die Harder
"Die Hard 2: Die Harder" took place in Washington, DC, where Bruce Willis's character waits for his wife's flight.
Home Alone
Home Alone 2

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Julia Louis Dreyfus, Lights, "Clark, I think that it would be best for everybody if they all just went home... before things get any worse."
National Lampoon's A Christmas Vacation
"Christmas Vacation" is the best of the National Lampoon movies, a series written by former writers of the Harvard Lampoon paper.
National Lampoon: A Christmas Vacation
The Harvard Lampoon: A Christmas Vacation
National Lampoon's Vacation

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Santa, Will Farrell, Toys
Elf
"Elf" would not have worked as a film at all without the considerable comedy chops of Will Farrell, whose antics are the whole reason for the film to exist.
Die Hard
Scrooged
The Santa Clause

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1988, Bill Murray, The Ghost of Christmas Past
Scrooged
"Scrooged" was one of the best Christmas films to be made in the 1980s, and one of the finest comedies of the decade.
Ghostbusters
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Home Alone

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Stop motion animation, red light bulb, Father Christmas
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer
This classic holiday film was made with painstaking stop motion animation back in the days of celluloid Oxbury cameras.
Home Alone 2
White Christmas
Christmas With The Kranks

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Arnold Schwarzenegger, workaholic dad, "Those are my cookies!"
Jingle All The Way
Schwarzenegger does some of his best comedy in this Christmas movie.
Kindergarten Cop
Terminator 3
Commando

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Macaulay Culkin, booby traps, aftershave
Home Alone
"Home Alone" was the film that put the otherwise unknown Macaulay Culkin on the map, showcasing his knack for comedy and his considerable (if still very young) acting chops.
Home Alone 2
A Christmas Story
Die Hard

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Computer Graphics, Trains, 2004
The Polar Express
This film never quite found its audience, making enough money to justify making it, but not much more.
The Muppet Christmas Carol
A Charlie Brown Christmas
Dr. Suess's How The Grinch Stole Christmas

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Malls, a little person, alcohol
Bad Santa
Billy Bob Thornton's "Bad Santa" played up the idea of the sad, drunk, working man as a mall Santa, to wonderful comic effect. Still, the film is really dark.
Drunk Santa
Elf 2
A Bad Christmas

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Jim Carrey, classic storytelling, computer graphics
A Christmas Carol
This 2009 film was fully computer-animated, and based on the story by Charles Dickens.
The Mask
The Mask II
A Christmas Carol 2: The Return

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Tim Allen, Santa, $172.9 Million Box Office Take
The Santa Clause 2
In this inexplicably successful film, Tim Allen's titular hero has to get married, a wedding featuring various figures from pagan mythology.
The Santa Clause
The Santa Clause 3
The Santa Clause 4: The Revenge

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Denis Leary, criminals, "What is the matter with you? I thought mothers were sweet and nice a-a-and patient. I know loan sharks who are more forgiving than you. Your husband ain't dead, lady. He's hiding."
The Ref
In "The Ref," Dennis Leary plays a criminal whose getaway driver has driven away without him, leaving him to kidnap a couple who continue arguing and fighting the entire time.
Judgement Night
The Con
The Cop

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John Candy, Steve Martin, travel
Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
"Planes, Trains, and Automobiles" is the iconic John Candy film, as sadly, he didn't live many years more after its release.
Trains, Planes, and Automobiles
The Jerk
SCTV

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Steve Martin, "Lifesavers" hotline, "This means that we can have the baby in a hospital for free! All we have to do is swear that we're completely broke and have absolutely no way of supporting ourselves and never will."
Mixed Nuts
In this terribly reviewed film, Steve Martin plays an overworked father at a suicide hotline.
Cheaper By The Dozen
The Jerk
Bowfinger

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Horror, Valentine's Day, multiple directors
Holidays
A collection of short slasher films by several directors, "Holidays" includes a film titled "Christmas," starring Seth Green.
Valentine's Day
Father's Day
Christmas

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John Newton, soldier on leave, "I want to thank you for showing me how amazing love can make me feel."
The Christmas Card
In this Hallmark Channel original film, a soldier returns to the US to give his deceased friend's dogtags to his family, and finds the family he never had.
The Christmas Visit
The Christmas Party
The Christmas Soldier

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Mary Steenburgen, unemployment, "Gideon can make it so Dad's not dead any more!"
One Magic Christmas
In this film, an angelic visitor prompts a woman to mail her child's letter to Santa. Reading it, the mother learns the real meaning of Christmas.
The Magic Christmas
The Happy Christmas
The Magical Christmas

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Morris Chestnut, family, "If a tree loses its leaves, can it still be called a tree?"
The Best Man Holiday
In this film, the characters from "The Best Man Wedding" have a Christmas reunion.
The Maid of Honor Holiday
The Bridal Holiday
The Holiday Vacation

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Joseph Gordon-Levitt, fatherhood, "Your sweater! Don't you dare throw up in here! Swallow it like a girl would!"
The Night Before
This stoner comedy is about three friends who have celebrated Christmas together since 2001, when one of them lost both his parents. Now older, they consider ending the tradition.
The Night Before X-Mas
A Night Before
Stoned on Christmas

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Ben Affleck, pretending to be family, terrible reviews
Surviving Christmas
This critically panned film is about a man returning to his childhood home, where a new family now lives, to attempt to reconnect with a family even if it isn't his.
Fred Claus
Earnest Saves Christmas
The Bishop's Wife

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Jonathan Taylor Thomas, New York, "First the ground rules. If you say too many stupid things, I'll have to slug you."
I'll Be Home For Christmas
In this film, a young man deals with disappointments in his family and growing up, during the Christmas holiday.
I'll Get Home For Christmas
Home for Christmas
Disney's I'll be Home For X-Mas

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John Cho, drugs, "Back of the line, Tech Support!"
A Very Harold & Kumar 3D Christmas
This stoner comedy is a sequel to "Harold & Kumar Escape from Guantanamo Bay" (2008).
A Harold & Kumar Christmas
A Harold & Kumar X-Mas
Star Trek

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Vince Vaughn, criminality, "You're gonna get hooked on that thing. I can see it now. Sixteen thousand bags of Cheetos later, you'll wake up, you're 35, you're overweight, you're crying about your life in front of the soaps."
Fred Claus
In this film, Santa bails out his criminal brother, making him come to the North Pole to make toys to work off his debt, and help him when an efficiency expert makes St. Nick's life Hell.
Santa's Claws
Jim Claus
The Santa Clause 2

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Jim Varney, Santa, "It worked great. Victory is at hand. Now we have to move onto what I like to call 'Plan B.'"
Ernest Saves Christmas
"Ernest Saves Christmas" was part of a long series of films in which Jim Varney plays an idiot named Ernest. These films were often sold by ads on cable TV.
A Redneck Christmas
Ernest Saves X-Mas
A Very Varney Christmas

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Olivia Hussey, Margot Kidder, sorority house
Black Christmas
Glen Morgan's slasher flick takes place on a college campus on Christmas.
Christmas of Death
X-Mas
Ex-mas

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1969, Animated, "And so, I put the magic eggs into my hat. Abracadabra, to coin a phrase."
Frosty The Snowman
"Frosty the Snowman" is one of the most iconic of Christmas movies, enshrining the title song in the American musical lexicon.
Gumby Christmas
Mickey's Christmas
Bugs Bunny Does Christmas

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Cary Grant, a hypothetical cathedral, "For some time now, every time I pass the cemetery, I feel as though I'm apartment hunting."
The Bishop's Wife
In this 1947 film, a Bishop looking to build a cathedral is visited by an angel who attempts to help, but also gets a little too much attention from the Bishop's wife, prompting the Bishop to challenge Heaven itself.
The Bishop's Christmas
A Magical Christmas
Christmas Cathendral

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Irving Berlin, Bing Crosby, "I'll take a bowl of... coffee."
Holiday Inn
In this classic musical, Fred Astaire and Bing Crosby burnish their credentials of giants of the genre.
Holiday Hotel
A Christmas Holiday
A Bing Crosby Christmas

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Japan, broken glass, "The police have themselves an RV."
Die Hard
"Die Hard" takes place at an office Christmas party in the fictional Nakitomi Tower in Los Angeles.
Christmas in Japan
Samurai Santa
Uke Nagashi

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Potential crazy old man, Macy's, "I believe, I believe, I believe."
Miracle on 34th Street
This 1947 classic enshrined Macy's in the national mythology, and made the company's New York flagship store synonymous with Christmas.
Santa In New York
Santa Saves The Day
The Savior of Christmas

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Hugh Grant, London, a one-hit wonder
Love, Actually
In "Love, Actually," Hugh Grant plays the son of the writer of a one-hit wonder that has kept him living in style all his life.
Four Weddings and a Funeral
Three Weddings and a Funeral
Richard Curtis Breaks Your Heart Again

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Michael Keaton, PVC suit, cool car
Batman Returns
In this Batman sequel, Batman faces both Catwoman and The Penguin
Catwoman
Batman
Birdman

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Cute creature, Zach Galligan, food after midnight
Germlins
When a man gets his son a unique Christmas present, everything goes wrong, spawning a race of monsters on Christmas.
The Evil Dead
Ghoulies
Army of Darkness

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Eddie Murphy, Dan Aykroyd, money
Trading Places
In this film, a wealthy businessman (Aykroyd) has his wealth transferred to a transient (Murphy) in a bet between two wealthy masters of the universe.
Beverly Hills Cop III
A Vampire in Brooklyn
National Lampoon's Vacation

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Frank Capra, James Stewart, an Angel
It's A Wonderful Life
"It's A Wonderful Life" is the story of a man at the end of his rope, considering suicide on Christmas because he fears his family would be better off without him. An angel shows him otherwise.
Mr. Smith Goes To Washington
Michael
The Prophecy

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