CT's Favorite Christmas Movie is 'Last Christmas'

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We will all gather as a family before Christmas and put on a classic movie, one that epitomizes the season for us. What movie is that for you? A Christmas Carol? Christmas Vacation? Or, maybe Home Alone? Recently Preply set out to find the most popular Christmas movie in each state, they used Google Data to get their answers. The Nutmeg State has spoken, CT's favorite Christmas movie is Last Christmas?

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I'd never seen the movie so I did some research before setting out to judge and criticize this choice. Last Christmas is a romantic comedy that came out in 2019 and this is the plot description from IMDB:

"Kate is a young woman subscribed to bad decisions. Working as an elf in a year round Christmas store is not good for the wannabe singer. However, she meets Tom there. Her life takes a new turn. For Kate, it seems too good to be true."

Kate played by Emilia Clarke and the movie takes place in the U.K.

This would be the moment, I typically set out on a few different rants as to why this is an awful choice but I like the selection (we'll come back to that).

Normally, I'd complain because it's a newer movie, and ask how could this film stack up to classics like It's a Wonderful Life? Then, I'd make some speech about how Americans are far too fascinated with British pop culture and we have made an anti-patriotic choice...blah, blah, blah.

I like the selection because I'm an unabashed lover of romantic comedies. Even bad romantic comedies have the ability to make you feel good in a world full of bad. Film is about escapism, a departure from the ugly realities of life, and life has been seriously ugly lately.

While I am a fan of genres like horror, suspense and true crime, they don't allow for an escape from the warts real life displays. However, romantic comedies do take you away to a special, happy place where life is filled with awkward laughs and pretty people falling in love.

I've never seen Last Christmas but I'm putting on my list right now (stops writing to add movie to movie list). This movie will never be on my all-time favorite Christmas movie list, and it won't be a Christmas tradition in my house, but I can understand why CT residents Googled it again and again.

P.S. New York chose Home Alone and New Jersey had the same selection we did.

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