It's A Wonderful Lifetime: Tracing our love of holiday films
Advertisement But why is that so often the case? Why don’t we mind that so many holiday films—especially on cable—follow almost the exact same story beats, save an ornament factory here and a “but something’s missing” big city podcast producer there. And why do we so often return to the same well of holiday classics come December, even if we’ve seen them a million times before? To get to the root of these questions for our Why We Love series, we consulted a list of holiday movie experts, including actors, podcasters, screenwriters, and academic experts versed in the field. Life...
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