From this Saturday at 12am Eastern, that’s 6pm Saturday in NZ, 4pm in Sydney and 5am in the UK, and repeated every four hours throughout the day, it’s the described Movies Happiest Season from 2020, Ernest Saves Christmas from 1988, and Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer from 1964.
Happiest Season is a 2020 American holiday romantic comedy-drama film directed by Clear Duvall, from a screenplay written by Duvall and Mary Holland.
With an ensemble cast consisting of Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Dan Levy, Holland, Victor Garber, and Mary Steenburgen, the film follows a woman who struggles to come out to her conservative parents while she and her girlfriend visit them during Christmas.
Duvall has said the film is a semi-autobiographical take on her own experiences with her family.
Produced by TriStar Pictures, the film was released in the United States on 25 November 2020, by Hulu, and internationally on 26 November by Sony Pictures Releasing and Entertainment One.
The film received positive reviews from critics, with praise for the cast.
The film won a GLAAD Media Award in April 2021 in the " Outstanding Film - Wide Release" category.
Directed by: Clea DuVall.
Screenplay by: Clea DuVall and Mary Holland.
Story by: Clea DuVall.
Produced by: Isaac Klausner and Marty Bowen.
Starring: Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Dan Levy, Mary Holland, Victor Garber and Mary Steenburgen.
Cinematography: John Guleserian.
Edited by: Melissa Bretherton.
Music by: Amie Doherty.
Production companies: TriStar Pictures, Entertainment One, Temple Hill Entertainment and TriStar Productions.
Distributed by: Hulu (United States) and Sony Pictures Releasing (International).
Release date: 25 November 2020 .
File Length: 102 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Box office: $2.1 million.
Ernest Saves Christmas is a 1988 American Christmas comedy film directed by John Cherry and starring Jim Varney.
This is the third film to feature Varney's character Ernest P. Worrell, and chronicles Ernest's attempt to help find a replacement for an aging Santa Claus.
Directed by: John Cherry.
Screenplay by: Ed Turner and B. Kline.
Story by: Ed Turner.
Produced by: Joseph Akerman.
Starring: Jim Varney, Douglas Seale, Oliver Clark, Noelle Parker , Gailard Sartain and Bill Byrge.
Cinematography: Peter Stein.
Edited by: Ian D. Thomas.
Music by: Mark Snow.
Production companies: Touchstone Pictures, Silver Screen Partners III and Emshell Producers Group.
Distributed by: Buena Vista Pictures Distribution.
Release date: 11 November 1988.
File Length: 87 minutes.
Country: United States.
Language: English.
Budget: $6.5 million.
Box office: $28.2 million.
Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer is a 1964 Christmas stop motion animated television special produced by Videocraft International, Ltd. (later known as Rankin/Bass Productions) and currently distributed by NBCUniversal Syndication Studios.
It first aired Sunday, 6 December 1964, on the NBC television network in the United States and was sponsored by General Electric under the umbrella title of The General Electric Fantasy Hour.
The special was based on the Johnny Marks song " Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" which was itself based on the poem of the same name written in 1939 by Marks' brother-in-law, Robert L. May.
Since 1972, the special has aired on CBS ; the network unveiled a high-definition, digitally remastered version of the program in 2005.
As with A Charlie Brown Christmas and How the Grinch Stole Christmas, Rudolph no longer airs just once annually but several times during the Christmas and holiday season.
It has been telecast every year since 1964, making it the longest continuously running Christmas TV special.
The 50th anniversary of the television special was marked in 2014, and a series of postage stamps featuring Rudolph was issued by the United States Postal Service on 6 November, 2014
Genre: Christmas, Animation, Family, Comedy.
Based on: "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer" by Johnny Marks.
Written by: Romeo Muller.
Directed by: Larry Roemer.
Narrated by: Burl Ives.
Composer: Johnny Marks.
Country of origin: United States, Canada and Japan.
Original language: English.
Production Producers: Arthur Rankin, Jr.
Cinematography: Tadahito Mochinaga.
File Length 50 minutes.
Production company: Videocraft International.
Original network: NBC.
Original release: 6 December 1964.
Followed by: Rudolph's Shiny New Year, (1976).
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