Right now Amazon’s running a limited-time sale on holiday movies in the Instant Video store, and many of the classics you like to watch every year are currently priced at $6.99 each to own!
Note that no specific end date has been listed for the sale, so act quickly to get the videos you want. The sale includes such titles as (descriptions below from IMDB):
Planes, Trains and Automobiles (R, 4.5/5 stars, $6.99 to own in SD)
A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving with an obnoxious slob of a shower curtain ring salesman as his only companion.
– Written by Kenneth Chisholm
It’s A Wonderful Life (unrated, 5/5 stars, $6.99 to own in SD)
Presented in the original black and white.
George Bailey spends his entire life giving up his big dreams for the good of his town, Bedford Falls, as we see in flashback.
But in the present, on Christmas Eve, he is broken and suicidal over the misplacing of an $8000 loan and the machinations of the evil millionaire, Mr. Potter.
His guardian angel, Clarence, falls to Earth, literally, and shows him how his town, family, and friends would turn out if he had never been born. George meant so much to so many people; should he really throw it all away?
– Written by Tommy Peter
How The Grinch Stole Christmas + Horton Hears A Who (unrated, 4.5/5 stars, $6.99 to own in SD)
How The Grinch Stole Christmas!
A grumpy hermit hatches a plan to steal Christmas from the Whos of Whoville.
– Written by Murray Chapman
Horton Hears A Who!
Horton The Elephant struggles to protect a microscopic community from his neighbours who refuse to believe it exists.
– Written by Kenneth Chisholm
Scrooged (PG-13, 4.5/5 stars, $6.99 to own in SD)
Frank Cross runs a US TV station which is planning a live adaptation of Dickens’ Christmas Carol.
Frank’s childhood wasn’t a particularly pleasant one, and so he doesn’t really appreciate the Christmas spirit.
With the help of the ghosts of Christmas past, present and future, Frank realises he must change.
– Written by Rob Hartill
Irving Berlin’s White Christmas (unrated, 5/5 stars, $6.99 to own in SD)
Having left the Army following W.W.II, Bob Wallace and Phil Davis team up to become a top song-and-dance act.
Davis plays matchmaker and introduces Wallace to a pair of beautiful sisters (Betty and Judy) who also have a song-and-dance act.
When Betty and Judy travel to a Vermont lodge to perform a Christmas show, Wallace and Davis follow, only to find their former commander, General Waverly, as the lodge owner.
A series of romantic mix-ups ensue as the performers try to help the General.
– Written by Norman Cook
SpongeBob SquarePants: It’s A SpongeBob Christmas! (G, 4/5 stars, $6.99 to own in SD)
Note that this program is done in the Claymation animation style, not SpongeBob’s usual 2D animation.
Plankton, Mr. Krabs’ nemesis, vows to get his Christmas wish – obtaining the Krusty Krab’s secret Krabby Patty formula – by turning everyone bad in Bikini Bottom with the help of his special jerktonium-laced fruitcake.
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