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Christmas on screen in the 1980s: 13 essential profiles from the decade, each with its cast, story, and where to watch it now.
Scrooge McDuck was literally born for this role.
All Ralphie wants is a Red Ryder BB gun. You'll shoot your eye out, kid.
A commodities broker and a con man swap lives on a bet — over Christmas.
George C. Scott's Scrooge: the most commanding of the straight adaptations.
Never feed them after midnight — the Christmas gift that ate Kingston Falls.
The killer-Santa film that parents picketed out of theaters in 1984.
A weary mother, a Christmas angel, and a letter to the North Pole.
Two mismatched cops, one Christmas in Los Angeles.
Santa needs a successor. Ernest is available. Heaven help us all.
A New York cop, an LA skyscraper, twelve terrorists, one Christmas Eve.
Bill Murray is a TV executive Scrooge, and his ghosts fight dirty.
A little girl, an injured reindeer, and a town that needs to believe.
Clark Griswold just wants a good old-fashioned family Christmas. The house has other ideas.
