These are Fresno’s top 5 favorite Christmas movies

Earlier this week I took a very unscientific poll. I asked people on Facebook to name the Christmas movies they HAVE to watch every Christmas.

Per your answers, here are Fresno’s top 5 Christmas movies.

1. Elf 

To my surprise, this 2003 movie starring Will Ferrell as a human who thinks he’s a, you know, is Fresno’s favorite Christmas movie. Not sure how to take this news.

2. National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation 

This choice is not as much a surprise as Elf, but it is kinda weird that a 1980s movie starring Chevy Chase ranks number two.

3. A Christmas Story

Coincidentally, another 1980s film ties for second with Christmas Vacation. As I said in the Facebook post, there’s a reason this cult classic gets played for 24 hours straight every year on cable.

4. White Christmas 

Perhaps you think this 1954 film starring Bing Crosby introduced the classic Christmas song of the same name. It did not. (That was 1942’s Holiday Inn, which also starred Crosby.)

5. Die Hard 

Some of you think you’re cute. But I can kind of see why this movies ranks. For a non-Christmas Christmas movie, I’d go with The Sound of Music or The Wizard of Oz, but that’s just me. Clearly.

Honorable mentions

Here are the movies that got multiple mentions but couldn’t crack the top five.

• Love Actually 
• Home Alone
• It’s a Wonderful Life
• A Muppet Christmas Carol

Don’t see your favorite movie on this list? Either you have better taste than everyone else in Fresno or … Merry Christmas!

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Jason Farris

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I grew up in Fresno. Relaxed in its calm breezes, listened with my dad to the crack of the bat at little league baseball games when I was a kid and now take my son to do the same at minor league games. I broadened my mind at its schools (I went to high school right here at San Joaquin Memorial, and to college at Fresno State!) I love that if I drive for two hours in one direction, I can be in the mountains. For two hours in another, luxuriating on a California beach. I can enjoy the cosmopolitan atmosphere of San Francisco or Los Angeles, but still be able to come home to relaxation, calm, and quiet.

I love where I live, and I also love what I do. I'm lucky to be able to work in a profession in which I get to build relationships; one that has me meeting new people each and every day and helping them to build new lives in my beloved city. I'm lucky enough to work in a profession in which I can marry cutting-edge technologies and marketing techniques to good, old-fashioned, nose-to-the-grindstone work. I am lucky enough to work in a profession that allows me to work as an advocate for my clients; to use every tool at my disposal to get a job done well for them, and with as little stress and expense as possible.

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