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To show that even if you don't have a traditional family, you can still be surrounded by love. >> i think some of the most moving depictions of christmas are people being thrown together. >> hey! >> merry christmas. >> merry christmas. >> they find a way to celebrate and they find a way to create community. >> there's a big difference between christmas movies and then the television episodic christmases. because these are characters we live with throughout the year, and then we're spending christmas with them, too. >> merry christmas, fonz. >> yeah, yeah, merry christmas, huh? merry christmas....

Not fight this. >> i don't see why this is even a debate. "die hard" wears its christmas movie-ness on its sleeve. >> it is set at a christmas party. >> john. >> it is about an estranged couple rekindling their love for each other at the holidays. >> there's the sweatshirt with "ho, ho, ho, now i have a machine gun," written on it in blood. >> ho, ho, ho. >> surely, the goriest christmas card that has ever been delivered. >> it's christmas in the service of just one of the great, perfect movies of all time. >> tell her that -- that she's the best thing that ever happened to a bum like me. >> t...

It's like you're in this rarified air and finding each other and being able to belong with each other in this bubble of christmas creates a deeper intimacy. >> just stay like that. >> they compose an alternate family with each other. so it's a really hopeful christmas movie, even though it takes place in a world that doesn't recognize the possibility of those characters' love. >> actually, i'm in love. >> there are few movies that redefine what a christmas movie could be. "love actually" is a great christmas movie because it uses the season in a way that we all recognize. >> it's really the ic...

Come on and sit on santa's lap. >> and then what? >> it depends whether you've been naughty or nice. >> well, you're santa. aren't you supposed to know? >> love is a magical thing. and if you put the holidays on top of it, it's like a present that's got a ribbon on it. >> we want to believe in true love, but we're not sure it exists. but at christmas, we're willing to believe in slightly different things, like three ghosts visiting you or a guy getting to see what the world would have been like if he hadn't been born. finding your true love is kind of like that. and at christmastime, it feels ...

Christmastime is because it feels like this old-fashioned fairytale. >> jimmy stewart and margaret sullavan play clerks at a gift shop and they hate each other. >> mr. kralik, i don't like you. >> and we know that secretly they're pen pals who've fallen in love. they just don't know that that's who they're writing to. >> my heart was trembling as i walked into the post office, and there you were, lying in box 237. >> it tells the story of recognizing that what you needed was right there all along. so this very simple setting where the two of them work becomes a magical place of transformation....