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17 Best Hanukkah Movies to Watch and Stream in 2023. Holidays. 17 Best Movies to Watch During Hanukkah. Stream these films during all eight nights with friends and family. By Alesandra Dubin...
- An American Tail (1986) This sweet animated classic opens on the first night of Hanukkah, when Fievel's father gifts him his signature blue hat. The sweet young mouse is eventually separated from his family, who are fleeing cats (an allegory for pogroms) in Russia for a happier, safer new life in America.
- Fiddler on the Roof (1971) This beloved musical honors the unique Jewish struggle to preserve and celebrate their identity and escape persecution.
- Call Me By Your Name (2017) You probably associate Call Me By Your Name more with peaches than, say, potato latkes, but the film features not only two Jewish main characters, but also an ending scene directly from the holiday.
- The Hebrew Hammer (2003) This 2003 comedy focuses on the Jewish Mordechai Carver who is determined to save Hanukkah from the evil Damian Claus—the deviant son of Santa.
Dec 26, 2019 · With Charles Fleischer, Sid Haig, Caroline Williams, P.J. Soles. A group of Jewish young adults are in for a Festival of Frights. With the help of a Rabbi, they deduce that they are being targeted because they have violated Judaic law and that their only chance of survival is to embrace their faith.
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- Hanukkah on Rye. A holiday film that is very reminiscent of Jewish classic Crossing Delancey, Hanukkah on Rye feels like one of the first holiday romcoms that embraces Jewish culture rather than just transposing the Christmas film template onto Hanukkah.
- The Night Before. Although Christmas gets its fair share of screentime in The Night Before, there’s plenty of Hanukkah representation in this holiday-themed buddy comedy.
- Eight Crazy Nights. Consider Adam Sandler as Hanukkah’s greatest celebrity ambassador. He co-wrote and starred in the raunchy animated comedy Eight Crazy Nights back in 2002, partially in an attempt to give Jewish audiences a Hanukkah film.
- Eight Gifts of Hanukkah. Lifetime and Hallmark have been on the Christmas train for quite some time now, but Eight Gifts of Hanukkah represents the latter channel's first film that entirely revolves around the Jewish holiday, rather than being a mashup of Christmas and Hanukkah, as we’ve seen before.
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- 'Eight Crazy Nights' In 2002, Adam Sandler pulled double duty in the animated Eight Crazy Nights, which followed a troublemaker who gets sentenced to community service reffing a youth basketball team over the holiday season alongside an elf-like head referee, both voiced by the lead actor in this Hanukkah-themed comedy.
- 'Love, Lights, Hanukkah!' In 2020, Hallmark Channel made history when it premiered its very first Hanukkah-centered film with Love, Lights, Hanukkah! Starring Boy Meets World alum Ben Savage in his Hallmark debut alongside Mia Kirshner and Marilu Henner, the film followed a young woman who, upon learning she's Jewish, discovers a whole new world of traditions and falls in love with more than just the newfound holiday.
- 'The Night Before' In 2015, comedic minds Seth Rogen, Joseph Gordan-Levitt and Anthony Mackie came together in the holiday comedy The Night Before, about three Jewish best friends whose holiday tradition consists of gathering on Christmas Eve.
- 'All I Want Is Christmas' Taking some cues from films like Home Alone and the lesser-known Christmas movie I Saw Mommy Kissing Santa Claus,All I Want For Christmas is your typical story of a young Jewish boy heading on a holiday vacation to Florida who decides to swap places with a kid on his way to Christmastown in attempt to celebrate Christmas.
Dec 19, 2022 · From classic Hanukkah movies like ‘Eight Crazy Nights’ and Christmukkah episodes of ‘The OC’ to new entries like Hallmark’s ‘Hanukkah on Rye,’ now streaming on Peacock, these are our ...
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Dec 20, 2022 · Entertainment. 10 Hanukkah movies to watch this year. Talia Lakritz. Updated. Dec 20, 2022, 6:25 AM PST. Seth Rogen shows off his Hanukkah sweater in "The Night Before." Sony Pictures....
