A variety of holiday movies to select from, with black actors having been largely overlooked in mainstream media for a long time
It’s time to enjoy this holiday season with the best black rom-coms from your favorite black A-listers.
Here’s a list of our favorite black actors and actresses in Christmas movies to enjoy this season:
1. Ice Cube – “Friday After Next” (2002) –
Although this isn’t a traditional Christmas movie, it is an entertaining film. Additionally the film having set during the holiday season and will depicts similar events that take place in the
“hood”
During this time. The film will have Ice Cube and Mike Epps star as Craig and D-Day.
Having been robbed and left penniless on Christmas Eve, they are hired as security guards out of desperation to recoup their rent, nonetheless, they will get into more problems.
2. Jacob Latimore – “Black Nativity” (2013) –
In this musical-drama, Latimore will play Langston, a street-smart teenager sent to live with his grandparents in New York for Christmas. Upon arriving in the city, his luck fails him as he is first robbed of his possessions and accused of stealing a wallet. As a result, he ends up police custody.
3. Regina King – “This Christmas” (2007) –
King plays Lisa Whitfield in this family drama centered around the holiday season, where the six Whitfield siblings return to their mother’s house to celebrate Christmas after being away for four years. As they gather for dinner on Christmas Eve, Lisa’s cheating husband prompts her to suggest her siblings give up their share of the family business. Problems arise as personal issues gradually unfold.
4. Danny Glover – “Almost Christmas” (2016) –
Danny Glover stars as Walter Meyers in this comedy-drama. Although he is a retired automotive engineer, particularly he lost his wife ten months earlier. As the holiday season sets in, he invites his four albeit dysfunctional children, along with other family members, with hopes that they can all set aside their problems for a nice traditional Christmas holiday. Upon their arrival, Walter begins to realize that it is indeed impossible to have a perfect Christmas without his beloved wife.
5. Morris Chestnut – “The Best Man Holiday” (2013) –
This romantic comedy-drama features Chestnut in a leading role as Lance Sullivan and revolves around a reunion of college friends. Undoubtedly long-forgotten romances and disagreements will rekindled as the friends reunite after fifteen long years apart. Nevertheless Lance’s wife (Monica Calhoun) invites the college friends for Christmas and consequently, simultaneously old tensions resurfaces.
#Clique, what are your thoughts on these films?
