Let It Snow.
At a glance,
Let It Snow (2019) looks like one of those thousands of annoying, syrupy Christmas romance movies, but it’s actually surprisingly heartfelt and sweet. It tells several intertwining stories of troubled, yet hopeful teens as they try to figure out life. Julie (Isabela Moner) has been accepted at Columbia University but is reluctant to leave her sick mother. She meets pop star Stuart Bale (Shameik Moore) and makes a connection with him while eating at a run-down restaurant called “Waffle Town” (the “W” has fallen off the sign; say it out loud). Waffle Town employee Dorrie (Liv Hewson) is having girl trouble, as well as best-friend trouble. Tobin (Mitchell Hope) is secretly in love with his best friend “Duke” (Kiernan Shipka). And aspiring DJ Keon (Jacob Batalon) hopes to throw a huge party in Waffle Town as a snowstorm approaches. Joan Cusack co-stars as a strange woman who drives around wearing tin foil, and who helps out brokenhearted Addie (
By Joia DaVida Dec 11, 2020
There’s nothing like Christmas in Chicago and Hollywood filmmakers have produced several films set in Chi-town, the midwestern city who embraces many warm and small town traditions that make transplanted Chicagoans across the nation feel homesick.
So curl up on your couch with your remote and a nice cup of hot cocoa and enjoy these nostalgic
Chicago Christmas movies, no matter where you live.
Here is our top ten list of Christmas movies that take place in the Windy City:
10. A Bad Moms Christmas (R)
After the success of Bad Moms in 2016, Mila Kunis, Kristen Bell, and Kathryn Hahn are back again for another raunchy romp in the Windy City. Amy (Mila Kunis) struggles to get ready for the Christmas holiday when she is notified that her mom (Christine Baranski) is coming for a visit, meanwhile Carla (Kathryn Hahn) and Kiki (Kristen Bell) have already received their unexpected mom’s (Susan Sarandon and Cheryl Hines) arrivals. T