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Spiritual sequels to The House Without A Christmas Tree

posted 11 years ago by smbautista
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There is a 1989 Christmas film called Prancer and it has a 2001 sequel called Prancer Returns. I consider these films to be the spiritual sequels to The House Without A Christmas Tree.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prancer_(film)
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0098115
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0273995

There is a reindeer in both films but otherwise The House Without A Christmas Tree is very similar to Prancer and to a lesser extent Prancer Returns.

The entire Prancer film is on Youtube. Here is a link to it:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sEGP5Ofxp2I

The entire Prancer Returns film is on Youtube. Here is a link to the first part:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mPO6Hjzz6BQ

You should watch these films, they are two of the greatest films I've ever seen! Who here has seen them? O:-)

[–] dollpenguin 11 years ago

I agree that the Prancer films are both excellent Christmas movies. Thank you for reminding me of these movies as I had forgotten about them. Maybe I will rewatch them this Christmas season. I have never seen The House Without a Christmas Tree, but plan to watch it for the first time tonight.

"Its nothing personal when bombs explode" - Chuck Palahnuik

[–] smbautista 11 years ago

Check out the IMDB forums for those two films. All three films are great! What did you think of The House Without A Christmas Tree?

[–] sandvette9 9 years ago

I'm a retired fourth grade teacher and for many years I'd read The House Without a Christmas Tree along with The Thanksgiving Treasure to my kids around those holiday times. They loved them. There was also a book by the same author and same characters called A Dream for Addie that took place around Easter. Those books along with certain Judy Blume books were their favorites. There would always be a run at our school library and the public one for copies of the books so the kids could follow along. I tried to read to them everyday either after lunch or before dismissal time. Unfortunately, the last few years before I retired after 32 years, there was hardly any time left for that activity due to to all the ridiculous testing and review that went along with "No Child Left Behind". I hear it has gotten even more insane since I left. I loved teaching until that program just "sucked" all the pleasure out of teaching! So sad.

[–] smbautista 8 years ago

That's great that you read the books! I checked out the Wikipedia article and there are three other films with these same characters and there are books as well. I don't know much about that teaching program but hopefully things go well in the future. This is a great movie! :-)