Movie Night: Christmas: Grandma Got Run Over by a Reindeer, Nightmare Before Christmas, The Christmas Box

**^ Grandma Got Run Over By a Reindeer:   This is a TV movie produced in 2000 and shown on Cartoon Network every year, which is where Tony and I watched it.  It presents Grandma's bakery and fruit cake store, which has a prime location for being sold and making millions.  Of course the cousin the the young man wants the money, and schemes to get it.  Grandma, after being run over by Santa's sleigh is taken to the hospital and the North Pole.  She has amnesia and the cousin prepares to sell the shop, tricking grandfather to give her power of attorney.  Someone needs to rescue her, and restore the meaning of Christmas.  The music makes this show, and includes the original song.  Tony enjoyed it, but it seemed to go a bit long, and the trial of Santa was boring.

***^The Nightmare Before Christmas:  This is a Tim Burton classic.  It presents Halloween taking over Christmas in the form of Jack; Jack who has become bored with Halloween.  So they kidnap Santa, and Jack takes off on the sleigh,is delivering a different type of Christmas--which quickly offends the population.  He is seen as an imposter, and blown from the sky.  In the meantime, the Buggie man has been torturing Santa, which wasn't suppose to happen.  If something doesn't change Christmas will be ruined.
I enjoyed this movie for the most part; even with the gross Halloween stuff.  I am not sure of the theme.  Maybe it is that you have to know who you are and stay in your place.

****The Christmas Box.  This is a 1995 made for TV movie.  This movie is based on the Richard L. Evans book of the same name.  It Stars Richard Thomas as Richard, father of a young family, Annette O' Toole as his wife, and Maureen O'Hara as Mrs. Parkin, the widow who needs someone to live with her in her old age.  Mrs. Parkin asks Richard, "What was the first gift of Christmas?"  Much of the Movie revolves around this theme, the first give of Christmas.  There are also dreams of angels, and a Christmas Box containing old letters.  These lead to the discovery that the widow had a daughter, who died at five years old, and angel child.  It also leads to the realization that the gift of Christmas was a baby.  The mistery seems to be overplayed, and not that much of a thing, but the theme of putting priorities on what is important is something which comes home to me.