Essential Holiday Collection, Blu-ray (A Christmas Story, Elf, The Polar Express, National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation) (Blu-ray)

Synopsis

'Tis the Season for Family Fun - HAPPIER HOLIDAYS!

4-film collection in one Blu-ray box set. Bonus Extras with each movie, including "Elf" FOCUS POINTS that take you inside the making of the film while you watch the movie!

FILM SYNOPSIS:
The Polar Express – All the enchantment, all the joy – all aboard The Polar Express! Tom Hanks stars in the event-packed tale filmed in dazzling performance capture animation.

Santa Claus does not exist. Or does he? For one doubting boy (voice of Daryl Sabara and Tom Hanks), an astonishing event occurs. Late on Christmas Eve night, he lies in bed hoping to hear the sound of reindeer bells from Santa's sleigh. When to his surprise, a steam engine's roar and whistle can be heard outside his window. The conductor (voice of Tom Hanks) invites him on board to take an extraordinary journey to the North Pole with many other pajama-clad children. There, he receives an extraordinary gift only those who still believe in Santa can experience.

Get up, get on, and get ready for the ride of your life! it's Christmas Eve, and you're about to roller-coaster up and down mountains, slip-slide over ice fields, teeter across mile-high bridges and be served hot chocolate by singing waiters more astonishing than any you can imagine. You're on The Polar Express!

Tom Hanks stars in and Robert Zemeckis directs this instant holiday classic filmed in dazzling performance-capture animation that makes every moment magical. "Seeing is believing," says a mysterious hobo who rides the rails with you. You'll see wonders. And you'll believe. All Aboooooard!

National Lampoon’s Christmas Vacation – The movie with a squirrel in the Christmas tree – and a house full of nuts. Holiday traditions are disasters waiting to happen for Chevy Chase, Beverly D’Angelo and Randy Quaid.

This holiday season Clark Griswold vows his clan will enjoy "the most fun-filled old-fashioned family Christmas ever." Before you can sing "Fa-la-la-la-lah," he decks the halls with howls of folly in the perennial favorite National Lampoon's Christmas Vacation.

Seeing is believing. There are 25,000 lights on the roof. An exploding turkey on the dining room table. A SWAT team taking seige outside. A festive supporting cast and a John Hughes script full of wit, heart and sheer goofiness. Yule love it!

Elf – Buddy isn’t like Santa’s other elves. He’s 6’3”. He’s human. And he’s coming to New York to find his father. Will Ferrell in a yuletide-bright forever charmer.

After inadvertently wreaking havoc on the elf community due to his ungainly size, a man raised as an elf at the North Pole is sent to the U.S. in search of his true identity.

Once upon a Christmas Eve, an orphan baby crawled into Santa's bag of gifts and was taken to the North Pole. Raised by Papa Elf (Bob Newhart), Buddy (Will Ferrell) comes to realize he doesn't fit in with the other elves. Determined to find a place where he belongs, Buddy searches for his real dad - in New York City! In the Big Apple, Buddy finds out why his dad (James Caan) is on the Naughty list! But most importantly, he sees that the world is seriously lacking in Christmas spirit. Which causes Santa all kinds of problems!

So with the help of a beautiful department store elf (Zooey Deschanel), Buddy tries to teach his dad and the world the true meaning of Christmas spirit and to prove to everyone that Santa (Ed Asner) really exists!

A Christmas Story – All nine-year-old Ralphie Parker wants is the ultimate Christmas present: a Red Rider BB-Gun; the problem: convincing his parents! Peter Billingsley, Darren McGavin and Melinda Dillon in a funny, nostalgic, triple-dog-dare delight.

The funniest thing about Christmas, according to Jean Shepherd’s over-the-top holiday comedy, is spending it with your own family. In 1940s Indiana, nine-year-old Ralphie dreams of his ideal Christmas gift: a genuine Red Ryder 200-shot Carbine Action Air Rifle. But when his gruff dad and doting mom regularly respond with “You’ll shoot your eye out!” Ralphie mounts a full-scale, hint-dropping, Santa-begging campaign. In this tale you’ll be caught up in all kinds of childhood calamities from snowsuit paralysis to the yellow-eyed Scotty Farkus affair to the dreaded tongue-on-a-frozen-flagpole gambit.