A Baker's Dozen of Holiday Movies

The holiday season is upon us, and we are inundated with holiday movies. For instance, ABC Family is once again running its "25 Days of Christmas" program that features at least one Christmas movie a day for 25 days. In the interest of helping readers sort the wheat from the chaff, I offer the following list of holiday movies worth viewing:

1. A Charlie Brown Christmas (Charles Schultz)
2. A Christmas Carol (George C. Scott, David Warner, Susannah York, Roger Rees)
3. Die Hard (Bruce Willis, Alan Rickman, Bonnie Bedelia, Reginald VelJohnson)
4. Elf (Will Ferrell, Bob Newhart, James Caan, Zooey Deschanel)
5. The Family Man (Nicholas Cage, Tea Leoni, Don Cheadle)
6. Groundhog Day (Bill Murray, Andie MacDowell)
7. The Holiday (Cameron Diaz, Jude Law, Kate Winslet, Jack Black, Eli Wallach)
8. How the Grinch Stole Christmas (Boris Karloff)
9. It's a Wonderful Life (Jimmy Stewart, Donna Reed, Henry Travers, Lionel Barrymore)
10. Miracle on 34th Street (Maureen O'Hara, Edmund Gwenn)
11. Rudolph, the Red-Nose Reindeer (Burl Ives)
12. The Santa Clause (Tim Allen, Judge Reinhold, Eric Lloyd, David Krumholtz)
13. White Christmas (Bing Crosby, Danny Kaye, Rosemary Clooney, Vera-Ellen)

Note: the list appears in alphabetical order and does not pretend to be exhaustive. On another day, I might have included other movies on the list (e.g., Love Actually, Polar Express, Home Alone) than those listed above.