Random Best Christmas Scenes In Non-Christmas Movies (14 items)

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  (#6) The Color Purple

  • Oprah Winfrey, Whoopi Goldberg, Laurence Fishburne, Danny Glover, Rae Dawn Chong, Margaret Avery, Adolph Caesar, Carl Anderson, Leon Rippy, Dana Ivey, Akosua Busia, Leonard Jackson, Willard E. Pugh, Desreta Jackson, Susan Beaubian

  In The Color Purple, Sofia (Oprah Winfrey) is sentenced to a life of servitude as punishment for inciting a disturbance. Years into her sentence, the mayor's wife grants Sofia her first Christmas off to spend with her kids.

  The Christmas doesn't go quite as planned, since the mayor's wife cannot seem to function without Sofia's help. There is, however, a brief, endearing reunion between Sofia and her children by the Christmas tree. 
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  (#8) Boogie Nights

  • Julianne Moore, Mark Wahlberg, Heather Graham, Burt Reynolds, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Don Cheadle, Alfred Molina, William H. Macy, Nina Hartley, John C. Reilly, Thomas Jane, Luis Guzmán, Philip Baker Hall, Nicole Ari Parker, Summer Cummings, Veronica Hart, Tom Lenk, Melora Walters, Ricky Jay, Joanna Gleason, John Doe, Michael Penn, Michael Jace, Robert Ridgely, Jon Brion, Skye Blue, Diane Mizota, Anne Fletcher, Jack Riley, Laurel Holloman, Robert Downey Sr., Tony Tedeschi, Kai Lennox, Stanley DeSantis, Allan Graf, Channon Roe, Rico Bueno, Don Amendolia, Brian Kehew, Greg Lauren, Jack Wallace, Israel Juarbe, Sebastian La Cause, Sharon Ferrol-Young, Eric Winzenried, Eddie Garcia, Theo Mayes, Grace Bustos, Mike Gunther, Darrel W. Wright, Jami Philbrick, Jamielyn Kane, Melanie A. Gage, Jason Andrews, Lil' Cinderella, Coleman McClary, Laura Gronewold, Sean Welch, Nathan Prevost, Jonathan Quint, Dee Dee Weathers, Tom Dorfmeister, Patricia Forte, Lance MacDonald, Samson Barkhordarian, Lisa Ratzin, Melissa Spell, Alexander D. Slanger, Vernon Guichard II, Jose Chaidez, Michael Stein, Scott Fowler, Tyrone D. Dixon, Lexi Leigh, Jason 'Jake' Cross, Tim Soronen, Gregory T. Daniel, Dustin Courtney, Michael S. Stencil, Joe G.M. Chan, Goliath, Lawrence Hudd, Audrey Wiechman, Misty Tamburelli, Brad Braeden, Raymond Laboriel, George Anthony Rae, B. Philly Johnson, Leslie Redden, Selwyn Emerson Miller, Michael Raye Smith, Robin Sharp

  Boogie Nights approaches Christmas with a pretty grim attitude. Buck (Don Cheadle) is at a bakery buying donuts when an armed robber comes in and leaves Buck as the only survivor. Buck sees an opportunity to get a leg up in a world that has dismissed and discounted him his entire life and walks out with the bag of cash the robber was attempting to take.

  Boogie Nights celebrates Christmas cheer with a gruesome heist and a moral quandary.
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  (#14) One True Thing

  • Meryl Streep, Renée Zellweger, Lauren Graham, William Hurt, Diana Canova, Nicky Katt, Tom Everett Scott, Gerrit Graham, Patrick Breen, James Eckhouse, Lizbeth MacKay, Sloane Shelton, Mary Catherine Wright, Michele Shay, Stephen Peabody, David Byron

  In One True Thing, Meryl Streep plays a devoted housewife and mother whose cancer diagnosis compels her somewhat-estranged adult daughter (Renée Zellweger) to move home and care for her. Mother and daughter then go on a surprising and sometimes messy emotional journey together.

  One part of the movie takes place over Christmas, and if you can make it through the tree-lighting scene with dry eyes, your heart must be made of ice.
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  (#11) Mean Girls

  • Lindsay Lohan, Rachel McAdams, Amanda Seyfried, Tina Fey, Amy Poehler, Lacey Chabert, Lizzy Caplan, Tim Meadows, Ana Gasteyer, Daniel DeSanto, Neil Flynn, Jonathan Bennett, Diego Klattenhoff, Daniel Franzese, Jonathan Malen, Eve Crawford, Jack Newman, Bruce Hunter, Laura DeCarteret, Clare Preuss, Dan Willmott, Talia Russo, Marc Allen, Alisha Morrison, David Reale, Dwayne Hill, Darryl Armstrong, Kaylen Christensen, Sima Fisher, Rajiv Surendra, Krysta Carter, Ely Henry, Chris Ploszczansky, Julia Chantrey, Tara Shelley, Jan Caruana, Elana Shilling, Wai Choy, Michelyn Emelle, Jill Morrison, Bathsheba Garnett, Les Porter, Olympia Lukis, Noelle Boggio, Kristen Bone, Stefanie Drummond, Megan Millington, Nicole Crimi, Shannon Todd, Andreja Punkris, Jo Chim, Randi Lee Butcher, David Sazant, Erin Jarvis, Tyson Fennell, Sharron Matthews, Valerie Casault, Molly Shanahan, Miranda Edwards, Erin Thompson, Danielle Nguyen, Jessie Wright, Jacky Chamberlain, Jeff Moser, Ky Pham, Stephan Dickson, Michelle Hoffman, David Aherne, Graham Kartna, Nicholas A. Catalano, Alexandra Stapley, Ayo Agbonkpolo, Jordan Dawe, John Gadsden, Lucila Grzetic

  The Christmas scene from Mean Girls is one of the most memorable moments in a movie filled with memorable moments. Cady (Lindsay Lohan) and the Plastics take to the stage at the school talent show to perform a choreographed dance to "Jingle Bell Rock."

  Their dance moves shock Cady's parents. After the music pauses and Gretchen accidentally kicks the CD player into another student's face, there's an awkward silence. Cady begins singing where the song left off. The other girls join in, Ms. Norbury hops on the piano to accompany them, and the whole crowd is swept up in the holiday spirit.
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  (#3) Steel Magnolias

  • Sally Field, Dolly Parton, Shirley MacLaine, Daryl Hannah, Olympia Dukakis, Julia Roberts, Tom Skerritt, Dylan McDermott, Kevin J. O'Connor, Sam Shepard

  The Christmas scenes in Steel Magnolias capture the essence of the entire film: they're warm, witty, sentimental, and hilarious. The exchange between M'Lynn (Sally Field) and her daughter Shelby (Julia Roberts) is one of the highlights.

  Shelby, a diabetic who was advised not to have children, tells her mother she's pregnant. M'Lynn is less than thrilled, to which Shelby responds, "There may be risk involved, but that's true for anybody... I would rather have 30 minutes of wonderful than a lifetime of nothing special."
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  (#2) Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone

  • Emma Watson, Daniel Radcliffe, Julianne Hough, John Hurt, John Cleese, Maggie Smith, Alan Rickman, Richard Harris, Bonnie Wright, Julie Walters, Rupert Grint, Tom Felton, Robbie Coltrane, Verne Troyer, Warwick Davis, Richard Griffiths, Fiona Shaw, Leslie Phillips, Zoë Wanamaker, Matthew Lewis, Derek Hough, David Bradley, Devon Murray, Ian Hart, Alfred Enoch, Sean Biggerstaff, Geraldine Somerville, Chris Rankin, Oliver Phelps, Jamie Waylett, James Phelps, Elizabeth Spriggs, Adrian Rawlins, Danielle Tabor, Joshua Herdman, Harry Melling, Richard Bremmer, Ray Fearon, Terence Bayler, Stefan Pejic, Richard Ried, Derek Deadman, Nina Young, Miles Richardson, Eleanor Columbus, Harry Taylor, Lisa Osmond, Luke Youngblood, David Holmes, Simon Fisher-Becker, Paul Marc Davis, David William James Elliott, Leilah Sutherland, David Brett, Will Theakston, Scot Fearn, Ben Borowiecki, Emily Dale, Jean Southern, Darren Tough, Jacob Saunders, Bernadette Jane Vanderkar, Paul Grant, Charles Saunders, Michael Saunders, Will Howes, Oliver Lavery-Farag, Kieri Kennedy, Nicholas Read, Cath Peakin, Holly-Ann Filtness, Bianca Sowerby, Amy Puglia

  Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone doesn't skimp on the magic in any sense of the word. One of the movie's most powerful scenes focuses on the magic of the holidays rather than the supernatural. 

  There is the majesty of the Great Hall decked out in holiday decor, and the adventures of the friends who are spending their first Christmas together at Hogwarts. But most of all, there is the try-not-to-ugly-cry moment when Harry realizes that he actually received Christmas gifts for maybe the first time ever.

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