-The things that make the best holiday travel movies
involve the characters either getting back to something,
whether that's family or love, or finding something,
like self-awareness or a sense of purpose or Christmas spirit.
-I feel like a lot of holiday movies center around travel
or have some sort of travel aspect.
I think it's just part of holidays in general.
The cheese factor, for sure.
You know, unrealistic expectations for relationships,
a nice ending that really pulls together
the whole movie at the end and gives you
that feel-good feeling. -
♪ Keep a-knockin' but you can't come in ♪
♪ Come back tomorrow night and try it again ♪
-Up here, you morons. Come and get me.
-How can we talk about holiday travel movies
without talking about the absurd plots of "Home Alone"?
-Kevin! -Aah!
-How does a family, like, lose track of their child enough
to have, like, sequels to a movie?
It's a pretty good way to make people feel, like, superior.
Like, as much of a mess as my holiday travel is,
at least I did not forget a kid.
-My favorite holiday travel movie is "Elf."
One of my favorite scenes is when he leaves Santa's workshop
and is saying goodbye to all the creatures,
and the narwhal comes out and says, "Bye, Buddy.
Hope you find your dad."
So, that is when he leaves and travels to New York
is one of my favorite scenes. -
♪ Hey, mama, oh, boy Ooh, buddy, oh, boy ♪
-My favorite holiday travel movie has to be
"How the Grinch Stole Christmas."
There is one scene, after the Grinch has successfully
pulled off his heist of all the Christmas trees
and the presents from everyone's homes,
and he gets back into his sleigh,
and the gas tank is empty,
and I believe that the majority of the travel done in the story
is on the spiritual level.
The Grinch goes from internalizing
his outsider status
to being accepted as a part of this community.
Then at the end, his heart grows and he starts to feel things.
-I love "White Christmas."
I watch it every year while I'm wrapping presents.
-You've got everything you want? -Yes.
-Except the most important thing.
-What's this? -A girl.
-Well, I'll get around to that one of these days.
-The plot of "White Christmas" revolves around
Bob Wallace and Phil Davis, who are singers,
and they meet up with the Haynes sisters,
and they all travel to Vermont to put on a gig at a ski resort,
which turns out to not have snow.
There is a delightful scene on the train,
where they sing about all the snow
and the things they want to do in the snow in Vermont,
and my husband teases me about that song every year.
♪ - A white Christmas with no -No -Snow -Snow ♪
-My favorite Christmas travel movie of all time is "Carol."
So, essentially, what happens is Therese and Carol
become friends.
Therese is infatuated with Carol
and is intrigued by her and her lifestyle
and is so curious who this mysterious woman is.
We're following their love through their vacation drive.
-I also like, for childhood purposes, "Rudolph."
When he goes to the North Pole --
it'd be nice to sometime in my life go to the North Pole.
There's this one part where they travel
to the Land of Misfit Toys -- the Island of Misfit Toys.
It's a long passage, but they go through a lot of trials.
They even go through an abominable snowman.
It's kind of cool, too, for Rudolph to find this place
where he belongs with people who also don't belong.
-It's my nose. It keeps giving us away.
After travelling and moving around so much,
it kind of is an analogy that you find --
collect friends along the way, your found family.
-My favorite movie is "Love, Actually."
Not to give away any spoilers, but everybody at the end
of the movie kind of is getting off the airplane.
Everybody was waiting at the gate for everybody to walk off,
and of course, it was really dramatic.
The very, very end of the movie, they show all these real people
being reunited with their families,
and they kind of zoom out, so it's all about, like,
how everybody kind of is the same
and humans crave connection and love and family,
and I just think it, like, pulls together, like,
the meaning of the holiday season in a really nice way.