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Best Christmas movies set in each state

ByReed Gaudens|
HOME ALONE - Eight year old Kevin MacAllister (Macaulay Culkin) gets lost in the shuffle as his large, upper-middle class suburban family rushes to make a plane that will ferry them off to their Christmas vacation in France; Kevin, having been banished to an attic room as punishment, is subsequently forgotten. At first this is a dream come true, as for the first time in his young life he has no one to answer to but himself, and he takes full advantage of his newfound freedom, eating junk food and watching late-night horror flicks. But when the bumbling Wet Bandits Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern) target his house for a robbery, Kevin must step up to defend his home; he sets a maze of booby traps so elaborate that only an eight year old imagination could concoct them. (20TH CENTURY FOX)MACAULAY CULKIN
HOME ALONE - Eight year old Kevin MacAllister (Macaulay Culkin) gets lost in the shuffle as his large, upper-middle class suburban family rushes to make a plane that will ferry them off to their Christmas vacation in France; Kevin, having been banished to an attic room as punishment, is subsequently forgotten. At first this is a dream come true, as for the first time in his young life he has no one to answer to but himself, and he takes full advantage of his newfound freedom, eating junk food and watching late-night horror flicks. But when the bumbling Wet Bandits Harry (Joe Pesci) and Marv (Daniel Stern) target his house for a robbery, Kevin must step up to defend his home; he sets a maze of booby traps so elaborate that only an eight year old imagination could concoct them. (20TH CENTURY FOX)MACAULAY CULKIN
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Missouri: Meet Me in St. Louis

Release Year: 1944

Directed By: Vincente Minnelli

Starring: Judy Garland, Margaret O’Brien, Mary Astor, Lucille Bremer, Tom Drake, Marjorie Main, Harry Davenport, Henry H. Daniels, Joan Carroll, June Lockhart, Robert Sully, Hugh Marlowe, Chill Wills, Darryl Hickman, Donald Curtis

Surely, you know the song “Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas.” But do you know where that holiday standard originated? Judy Garland, perhaps best known to most younger generations as Dorothy Gale from The Wizard of Oz, debuted the classic jingle in Meet Me in St. Louis, a beloved romantic musical film. Garland stars in the classic as one of four sisters preparing for the 1904 St. Louis World’s Fair and their education in all things life and love. Meet Me in St. Louis tells its story in a series of seasonal vignettes, beginning in the summertime and culminating in Christmastime.

Judy Garland notched another big-screen hit with Meet Me in St. Louis, which wound up the second highest-grossing film release of 1944 and scored four Academy Award nominations. The film has been adapted twice for television in 1959 and 1966 and on Broadway in 1989. As the source of a huge element of Christmas tradition, Meet Me in St. Louis has been referenced in a number of modern Christmas movies, such as The Family Stone, Deck the Halls and fellow seasonal vignette film Sex and the City. Have yourself a merry little Christmas with the true blue American classic Meet Me in St. Louis.

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