Meet Me in St. Louis
Second viewing, this might be a perfect post-Christmas movie? There's so much holiday fare to watch in the lead-up to the 25th, it's hard to make space for everything. Meet Me in St. Louis could certainly work as a pre-Christmas offering, but it's also a fantastic little "year in review" flick. Charting this family's misadventures from Summer into Autumn and the climax arriving at Christmas. 369
But the story's aims are always about after Christmas, what future awaits them in the new year and whether they'll make it to the fabled World's Fair. It's a film about renewal and finding the path meant for you, making it a perfect New Year's movie. But it also introduced "Have Yourself a Merry Little Christmas" to the world, so you can't stray too far from that holiday's shadow.
So? Post-Xmas, Pre-New Years. That's where I'm landing on it. I'm very serious (ha) about seasonal movie watching and it's always fun to find precisely where a beloved flick neatly slots into the yearly rotation.
Blu-ray
HD 583