Holiday movies are as much a part of many of our holiday traditions as stockings by the fire or marathon cookie-baking sessions.
If you're like me, it isn't really the holiday season until I hear that department store Santa bark "Ho, ho, ho!" as he pushes Ralphie down the slide in A Christmas Story.
Do you hear Will Ferrell's voice from Elf scream, "I know him," every time someone mentions the jolly old elf? I know it isn't just me.
Is kicking it old school in Seneca Falls with George and the gang from It's A Wonderful Life your thing? It turns out, you're not alone.
Also not alone are the millions of kids (of all ages) that watch Home Alone and wonder exactly what Kevin's parents do for a living to afford that house and all of those luxurious vacations.
Looking for some trivia about your Christmas favorites to amaze your friends over some hot cocoa at your next watch party? Look no further. Click through as we break it down for you.
Sorry, no major awards coming your way marked "Fragile."
Scoring at the box office wasn't in the (Christmas) cards for many holiday movies that have become classics.
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Home Alone tops the leader board with an astounding $258.8 million dollars when it opened in 1990. Those are superhero-movie type numbers, people.
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Holiday movies don't always have the biggest budget, so it takes less for the studios to make their money back. That means more holiday movies.
But looking at this graph, that isn't always true. There's a lot of red on the ledger The Polar Express and 2009's A Christmas Carol. (That's the one with Jim Carrey as Scrooge.)
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Say it isn't so, infographic. A Christmas Story has only earned a lifetime gross of $20.6 million.
And yes, Die Hard is a Christmas movie.
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The biggest loser is The Nutcracker in 3D.
No biggie. Just go see the actual Nutcracker performed by your local ballet in three actual dimensions.
Then, come home and watch Gremlins. Again.
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It took three years of agonizing stop-motion production to bring Jack Skellington and Sally to life in The Nightmare Before Christmas. It takes three seconds to fall in love with Danny Elfman's music from the movie.
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Billy Bob Thornton went mega-method and got drunk to be the drunk Santa in Bad Santa.
Jim Carrey sat in a makeup chair for eight hours to become the Grinch.
No surprise that it was Bad Santa that got the sequel.
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Who knew that Walter from Elf lives in the Ghostbusters apartment building?
Meanwhile, Kevin and his family were living large. The house used for Home Alone sold for over $1.5 million in 2012.
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