Best Tv Movie Movies of 2011
1.
Geek Charming
4.6
6.5/10
Dylan Schoenfield is the pink princess of the upscale Los Angeles Woodlands Academy. She has the coolest boyfriend, the most popular friends, and a brand-new it bag that everyone covets. But when she accidentally tosses her Serge Sanchez bag into a fountain, this princess comes face-to-face with her own personal frog, self-professed film geek Josh Rosen. In return for rescuing Dylan's bag, Josh convinces Dylan to let him film her for his documentary on high school popularity. Reluctantly, Dylan lets F-list Josh into her A-list world, and is shocked to realize that sometimes nerds can be pretty cool. But when Dylan's so-called prince charming of a boyfriend dumps her flat, her life and her social status comes to a crashing halt. Can Dylan win the Woodlands Academy Fall Formal Blossom Queen crown? Can Josh win the Woodlands Academy 10th Annual Film Festival? Can Dylan, with Josh's help, pull the pieces together to create her own happily-ever-after?
Starring:
Sarah Hyland, Matt Prokop, Sasha Pieterse, Lili Simmons, Vanessa Morgan
Directed by:
Jeffrey Hornaday
Release date:
2011-11-11
2.
Phineas and Ferb the Movie: Across the 2nd Dimension
4.4
7.4/10
Perry's worst fear comes true when Phineas and Ferb finds out that he is in fact Secret Agent P, but that soon pales in comparison during a trip to the 2nd dimension where Perry finds out that Dr. Doofenshmirtz is truly evil and successful.
Starring:
Vincent Martella, Ashley Tisdale, Thomas Brodie-Sangster, Caroline Rhea, Richard O'Brien
Directed by:
Robert Hughes, Dan Povenmire
Release date:
2011-08-05
3.
Good Luck Charlie, It's Christmas!
3.9
6.5/10
Teddy Duncan's middle-class family embarks on a road trip from their home in Denver to visit Mrs. Duncans Parents, the Blankenhoopers, in Palm Springs. When they find themselves stranded between Denver and Utah, they try to hitch a ride to Las Vegas with a seemingly normal older couple in a station wagon from Roswell, New Mexico. It turns out that the couple believes they are the victims of alien abduction. The Duncan's must resort to purchasing a clunker Yugo to get to Utah, have their luggage stolen in Las Vegas, and survive a zany Christmas with Grandpa and Grandma Blankenhooper.
Starring:
Bridgit Mendler, Mia Talerico, Leigh-Allyn Baker, Bradley Steven Perry, Jason Dolley
Directed by:
Arlene Sanford
Release date:
2011-12-02
4.
Ice Age: A Mammoth Christmas
3.9
6.5/10
When Sid accidentally destroys Manny's heirloom Christmas rock and ends up on Santa's naughty list, he leads a hilarious quest to the North Pole to make things right and ends up making things much worse. Now it's up to Manny and his prehistoric posse to band together and save Christmas for the entire world!
Starring:
Billy Gardell, Ray Romano, John Leguizamo, Queen Latifah, Denis Leary
Directed by:
Karen Disher
Release date:
2011-11-24
5.
6 Days to Air: The Making of South Park
3.9
7.7/10
Viewers will get a look at Parker and Stone's thought process as they approach a new episode and the 24/7 grind they subject themselves to each time the show is in production. The documentary also includes in-depth interviews with Parker and Stone about their working partnership and reflections on highlights from their careers.
Starring:
Trey Parker, Matt Stone, Bill Hader, Anne Garefino, Frank C. Agnone II
Directed by:
Arthur Bradford
Release date:
2011-10-09
6.
12 Dates of Christmas
3.8
6.3/10
12 Dates of Christmas is a romantic comedy that follows Kate (Amy Smart), a young woman who re-lives the same first date on Christmas Eve over and over again. In an attempt to win back her ex-boyfriend on Christmas Eve, Kate ends up ruining her blind date with Miles (Mark-Paul Gosselaar), a handsome guy she's been set up with. In a strange twist of fate, Kate is given the chance to re-live Christmas Eve twelve times! Kate decides to embrace what Christmas Eve has given her -- a loving family, great friends and Miles, who turns out to be a great guy! However, just as she seems to think she has gotten it right, the clock strikes midnight and Kate must live Christmas Eve once again. Under these weird new circumstances, Kate learns to take risks and enjoy what she's been given. Thanks to the gift of Christmas Eve, Kate finds happiness by finally trusting fate.
Starring:
Amy Smart, Mark-Paul Gosselaar, Benjamin Ayres, Laura Miyata, Audrey Dwyer
Directed by:
James Hayman
Release date:
2011-12-11
7.
Beyoncé: Live at Glastonbury 2011
3.6
7.6/10
Sunday night's Pyramid Stage has never quite seen a headliner like Beyoncé. The former Destiny's Child singer watched from side of stage as husband Jay-Z blew Noel Gallagher and half of Pilton away with an extraordinary set three years ago, and returned in 2011 to take on Glasto for herself. The Texan's stunning entrance confirmed that Knowles knows how to put on a show, and one of the biggest crowds the Pyramid stage has ever seen were delighted to be greeted by Sasha at her fiercest. This set, peppered with Prince and Kings Of Leon covers alongside the biggest hits of Beyoncé's career will be remembered long after the grass has re-sprouted on the fields of Worthy farm.
Starring:
Beyoncé Knowles
Release date:
2011-06-26
8.
Trading Christmas
3.6
7.0/10
Emily (Faith Ford) misses her daughter Heather (Emma Lahana), who is attending college in Boston. Since her father died, Heather is sensitive to her mom’s dependence on long-standing holiday traditions. This Christmas, Heather has planned a trip to Phoenix with her boyfriend, but tells her mother she is staying on campus to study. After Emily arranges a house-swap with Charles (Tom Cavanagh), an English professor from Boston who wants Washington State’s solitude in order to finish his novel, Emily hops on a flight to Boston to surprise Heather for Christmas. Unaware of the house swap, Emily’s best friend, Faith (Gabrielle Miller) walks in on Charles at Emily’s house and in Boston, Ray, Charles’ brother (Gil Bellows) responds to a 911 call only to find Emily at Charles’ condo. Will Christmas travel calamities lead to cross-country romances? Or have there been one too many surprises already?
Starring:
Tom Cavanagh, Faith Ford, Gil Bellows, Gabrielle Miller, Emma Lahana
Directed by:
Michael Scott
Release date:
2011-11-26
9.
Holy Flying Circus
3.6
7.1/10
A fantastical re-imagining of the events of 1979, when Monty Python made Life of Brian and the debate about what is an acceptable subject for comedy was blown wide open.
Starring:
Stephen Fry, Darren Boyd, Charles Edwards, Rufus Jones, Phil Nichol
Directed by:
Owen Harris
Release date:
2011-10-19
10.
Fragments: Surviving Pieces of Lost Films
3.5
7.7/10
Among the pieces featured in Fragments are the final reel of John Ford's The Village Blacksmith (1922) and a glimpse at Emil Jannings in The Way of All Flesh (1927), the only Oscar®-winning performance in a lost film. Fragments also features clips from such lost films as Cleopatra (1917), starring Theda Bara; The Miracle Man (1919), with Lon Chaney; He Comes Up Smiling (1918), starring Douglas Fairbanks; an early lost sound film, Gold Diggers of Broadway (1929), filmed in early Technicolor, and the only color footage of silent star Clara Bow, Red Hair (1928). The program is rounded out with interviews of film preservationists involved in identifying and restoring these films. Also featured is a new interview with Diana Serra Cary, best known as "Baby Peggy," one of the major American child stars of the silent era, who discusses one of the featured fragments, Darling of New York (1923).
Starring:
Baby Peggy, King Baggot, Theda Bara, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks
Release date:
2011-04-03
11.
Christmas Magic
3.5
6.7/10
Carrie Bishop (Booth) lives for her successful career as an event planner in New York City, but her life changes in an instant after a nasty car accident in a snowstorm. Carrie suffers head trauma and regains consciousness in Central Park with an older man, Henry (Derek McGrath, "Little Mosque on the Prairie"). Henry is Carrie's spirit guide and is there to help her "pass over" to Heaven. But before Carrie can move on, she must fulfill one last task on Earth - a type of Angel Duty. Henry tells Carrie that she must help guide a widowed, young restaurant owner, Scott Walker, (McGillion) who has recently considered suicide because his beloved restaurant/catering business is utterly failing. Carrie befriends Scott and his 8-year-old daughter and immediately displays a knack for promoting the restaurant. But time isn't on Carrie's side on this mission. She has until midnight Christmas Eve to turn the eatery around...
Starring:
Kiara Glasco, Lindy Booth, Paul McGillion, Derek McGrath
Directed by:
John Bradshaw
Release date:
2011-12-18
12.
Dear Santa
3.5
6.5/10
Crystal, a rich party girl, finds a little girl's letter to Santa asking for a new mother, and she vows to win over the father and daughter before the holidays.
Starring:
Amy Acker, David Haydn-Jones, Gina Holden, James Dugan, Patrick Creery
Directed by:
Jason Priestley
Release date:
2011-08-11
13.
Laurel & Hardy: Their Lives and Magic
3.4
7.5/10
The lives of Stan Laurel (1890-1965) and Oliver Hardy (1892-1957), on the screen and behind the curtain. The joy and the sadness, the success and the failure. The story of one of the best comic duos of all time: a lesson on how to make people laugh.
Starring:
Bart Williams, Booth Colman, Chuck McCann, Ingo Appelt, Irv Hyatt
Directed by:
Andreas Baum
Release date:
2011-12-29
14.
Annie Claus Is Coming to Town
3.3
6.4/10
This year, Santa’s daughter takes her first trip away from the North Pole during the Christmas season hoping to find adventure and love in sunny California. While Santa watches his daughter through a magic snow globe, Annie arrives in L.A. and becomes friends with the owner of Candy Cane Inn, Lucy, and her daughter, Mia. She also quickly lands a job at Wonderland Toys. Wonderland Toys’ owner, Ted is struggling to stay in business selling old-fashioned toys in a digital world. Annie soon realizes that she wants Ted’s business to thrive because she has feelings for this Christmas traditionalist.
Starring:
Maria Thayer, Sam Page, Randy J. Goodwin, Vivica A. Fox, Ryan Bittle
Directed by:
Kevin Connor
Release date:
2011-12-10
15.
A Christmas Kiss
3.3
6.3/10
Wendy Walton is the best designer in Boston... but no one knows it yet. Hoping to kick-start her career, Wendy has left work with the local theatre to take a job as an assistant to Priscilla Hall, the most prestigious designer in the city. Ms. Hall works Wendy around the clock, which is how Wendy finds herself trapped in an elevator late one night with an incredibly handsome stranger. Wendy and the mystery man share an impulsive, romantic, life changing kiss before the doors open and Wendy runs out, leaving him behind. The next day at work, Wendy answers the door to find the handsome gentleman standing in front of her.
Starring:
Elisabeth Röhm, Laura Breckenridge, Brendan Fehr, Jerrika Hinton, Laura Spencer
Directed by:
John Stimpson
Release date:
2011-11-12
16.
The Murder at Road Hill House
3.3
6.7/10
In 1860, Inspector Jack Whicher of Scotland Yard is sent to rural Wiltshire to investigate the murder of the three-year-old boy Saville Kent, who was snatched from his bed at night and murdered.
Starring:
Paddy Considine, Peter Capaldi, Tom Georgeson, William Beck, Emma Fielding
Directed by:
James Hawes
Release date:
2011-04-25
17.
Desperately Seeking Santa
3.3
6.1/10
Jennifer, a young, ambitious executive running promotions at a failing Boston mall comes up with a genius promotional gimmick to save her workplace and position herself for advancement: hold a "Hunky Santa" contest to replace the old Mall Santa. David, a local man trying to save his family's pizzeria, ultimately wins the contest and sparks fly between him and Jennifer. However, complications ensue when it comes to light that the company Jennifer works for is the same one trying to run David's family out of business.
Starring:
Laura Vandervoort, Nick Zano, Paula Brancati, John Bregar, Patrick Garrow
Directed by:
Craig Pryce
Release date:
2011-11-27
18.
A Holiday Engagement
3.2
6.0/10
Thirty-something Hillary Burns has spent her life trying to get the approval of her parents, most specifically her judgmental mother, Meredith Burns, thus far without success. Part of that approval for Hillary is to marry the right man. That's why Hillary is so happy that she is engaged to successful lawyer Jason King, who she will bring home to meet the family for the first time at their Thanksgiving get-together weekend in a week's time. However, Hillary's life starts to fall apart when simultaneously she loses her part-time newspaper writing job when the newspaper itself folds, and Jason dumps her as he tries to focus on his career which is seemingly more important to him than Hillary. On the advice of her best friend Sophie, Hillary - who feels she can't go home without Jason, especially as her two sisters' lives seem to meet their mother's approval - decides...
Starring:
Bonnie Somerville, Shelley Long, Jordan Bridges, Sam McMurray, Haylie Duff
Directed by:
Jim Fall
Release date:
2011-11-28
19.
Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy
3.1
5.8/10
Based on the events surrounding the murder of British student Meredith Kercher.Hayden Panettiere (Heroes) and Marcia Gay Harden (Academy Award winner for Pollock) star in the Lifetime Original Movie Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy based on the international headline-grabbing story of the now infamous American exchange student accused by Italian authorities of brutally killing her roommate. Amanda Knox: Murder on Trial in Italy poses the question of whether Knox (Panettiere), the Seattle honors student accused of murdering her college roommate Meredith Kercher (Amanda Fernando Stevens) in 2007 with her boyfriend Raffaele Sollecito (Paolo Romio) and acquaintance Rudy Guede (Djirbi Kebe), actually committed the crime or was herself a victim.
Starring:
Hayden Panettiere, Vincent Riotta, Paolo Romio, Marcia Gay Harden, Amanda Fernando Stevens
Directed by:
Robert Dornhelm
Release date:
2011-02-21
20.
Christmas Lodge
3.1
6.4/10
Mary Tobin has wonderful memories of family gatherings at the Christmas Lodge. When she arrives for a weekend vacation, she quickly realizes that the lodge that she loves has fallen into serious disrepair. With a lack of funds and a looming deadline, she not only restores the Christmas lodge's charm but finds love along the way.
Starring:
Erin Karpluk, Michael Shanks, Rukiya Bernard, Rebecca Toolan, John Innes
Directed by:
Terry Ingram
Release date:
2011-10-11
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