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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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Pennsylvania: Happiest Season

Release Year: 2020

Directed By: Clea DuVall

Starring: Kristen Stewart, Mackenzie Davis, Mary Steenburgen, Victor Garber, Alison Brie, Aubrey Plaza, Dan Levy, Mary Holland, Ana Gasteyer, Burl Moseley, Sarayu Blue, Jake McDorman, Lauren Lapkus, Timothy Simons

One of the biggest and most glaring blind spots in the Christmas movie genre is the lack of representation from all angles. A vast majority of holiday movies are about white families or white couples falling in love, and straight ones at that. While certainly the first but perhaps the most visible from a mainstream standpoint, Hulu’s Happiest Season break down some holiday barriers. Kristen Stewart stars as Abby, who plans to propose to her girlfriend, Harper (Mackenzie Davis), while home in Pennsylvania for her parents’s annual Christmas party.

But there’s one catch: Harper hasn’t yet come out to her conservative parents (Mary Steenburgen, Victor Garber). Currently, Happiest Season holds a 91% rating on Rotten Tomatoes as critics issue positive reviews ahead of its November release. The film comes from director Clea DuVall and features maybe one of the strongest comedic casts ever assembled for a holiday comedy. Without question, Happiest Season is a much-needed and long-awaited entry in not only the small collection of queer romantic comedies but the even smaller collection of queer Christmas movies.

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