1999 Christmas Movies

"109: 1999 Christmas Movies with Emily St. James" is the 128th overall episode of *Podcast Like It's 1999* covering the films, television and pop culture of 1999, hosted by Phil Iscove and Kenny Neibart. The episode was released on December 25, 2019.

## Description

"This jolly old, merry old Christmas we are joined once again by one of our absolute favorites returning guests Vox’s Emily St. James to talk about the Christmas Cinema of 1999. We get into the Cheese, Shmaltz, Corny and maybe even Horny? Stuff that was released for or around Christmas in 1999 and what it says about how we were treating Christmas in ‘99. We also reminisce about our own Christmas’ that year and genuinely have a Merry old time talking to one of our nicest friends."

## Kenny's Intro

"Hello, and welcome to *Podcast Like It's 1999*, the podcast where we talk about the films **and TV movies and direct to DVD Mickey animated features of 1999 from the North Pole** here in 2019."

## Historical Information

"Mickey and his friends tell three stories including "A Very Goofy Christmas" and "Mickey and Minnie's Gift of the Magi.""

*Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas* was straight to VHS/DVD on November 9, 1999. It has 40% on Rotten Tomatoes from critics and 66% from audiences. Roger Ebert did not review the film.

"It's Christmas Eve 1850, and the melancholy Scrooge finds himself alone at home when he sees before him the ghost of Jacob Marley, his long-time friend and business partner who died seven years earlier. Marley warns Scrooge that he will repent, even in death, for all the suffering he has caused others, and he has only one chance to escape his fate."

*A Christmas Carol* aired on the TNT Network on December 5, 1999. It has 72% on Rotten Tomatoes from audiences. Roger Ebert did not review the film.

## Ratings

**Mickey's Once Upon a Christmas**
 **Phil** | N/A
 **Emily** | -

**A Christmas Carol**
 **Phil** | N/A
 **Emily** | -

## Movies/TV Mentioned

Go, Eyes Wide Shut, Kacey Musgraves Christmas Special, Ghosts of Girlfriends Past, basically every Christmas Carol adaptation, Scrooged, Stingiest Man in Town, A Charlie Brown Christmas, X-Files, Community, Mary Tyler Moore, Thirty Something, My So Called Life, Friends, The Simpsons, Doctor Who, Lost, Watchmen TV, ER, The West Wing, Groundhog Day, Muppet Christmas Carol, Loki, Detective Pikachu, Edge of Tomorrow, Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Shaun of the Dead, Baby Driver, Once Upon a Time in Hollywood, The Last Jedi, Knives Out, Parasite, Marriage Story, 20th Century Women, Beginners, Greenberg, The Squid and the Whale, The Grand Budapest Hotel, The French Dispatch, A.I. Artificial Intelligence, Space Jam, Cats, The Rise of Skywalker, A Goofy Movie, Elf, Frozen II, The Fifth Element, Eternals, Love Simon, Beauty and the Beast, Avengers: Endgame, Captain Marvel, Black Panther, Black Widow, Christmas with the Kranks, Iron Man 3, A Christmas Story, Prancer, Vacation series, Animal House, Entourage, The Sopranos, Hindsight, Saturday Night Live, Magnolia, Margaret, Home Alone 2, Mr. Robot, Spirited Away, The Ten Commandments, Sound of Music, Titanic, Saving Christmas, Four Christmases, Fred Claus, Jingle All the Way