christmas movie, set in new york, poor boy rich girl

This film, directed by then Columbia University Mark Millhone, takes a sardonic look at the holiday season from a struggling writer’s point of view.

Spoiled socialite will learn a lesson after her father asks her to work in a family homeless center.

A tale of a boy from a wealthy family who during his work at the post office steals Christmas gifts from the wealthy to give to the poor people of Stockholm.

A savvy but overlooked real estate developer in New York is tasked with closing the deal of a lifetime with an eccentric billionaire in her small Vermont hometown. Once there, she competes with a ruthless rival, must face her estranged Hispanic family, reconnects with her childhood sweetheart. Along the way, she learns that the true magic of Christmas is forgiveness, family, and… horses.

With the holidays approaching, a young party planner arranges a special Christmas party for a New York toy store. When a powerful corporation threatens to shut her down, she decides to follow her heart, moving forward with the party plans and finding true love in time for Christmas.

Sometimes, life just seems to hand you exactly what you need – particularly at Christmastime. Riley is scraping bottom when she miraculously lands a job with a wealthy New York City entrepreneur. He’s a bad-boy socialite type who is poised to play Scrooge by closing one of his factories just before Christmas, which would devastate an entire town. It’s left to Riley to talk him out of it and turn him into a man of virtue rather than shame.

When a 13-year-old girl befriends a defiant antisocial child of the streets, the mismatched runaways set off to the Big Apple to find their own adventure.

A girl loses her parents and husband and is left driving a limo trying to get by raising her young son. An interesting but strange rich man hires her limo on Christmas eve and has her drive him to various ice rinks where he gives out $100 bills to the people there. The news media catches on and starts following him.

With money running low, nine New Yorkers forgo their annual Christmas in Aspen and head to Pennsylvania for a murder-mystery weekend.

Set in a city centre branch of a city bank, the film depicts a love affair between a young career-track man and a woman in a general employment position over an on-the-job marriage. The film reflected the world at the end of the economic bubble, with men in career-track positions at major city banks as symbols of the elite and the economic boom in terms of bad loans and other unforeseen aspects of the economy. The film provides an insight into the elites of the bubble era, including the romance between a handsome young male career-track employee of a major city bank and a female general staff member, the in-branch affair between an outstanding corporate loan section manager and a female general staff member, and the depiction of Christmas Eve as the biggest event of the year for lovers and the human drama surrounding the day.