Christmas Vacation = Movies! “Les Miserables” and “Django Unchained” Top My List [VIDEO]

I love seeing family and friends at Christmas but I have to admit that I always find time to sneek away for a movie during my presious time off. This Christmas the Hollywood powers that be have a couple of really good openings for uas and I plan on seeing them both.

Check them out:
"Les Miserables" is rated (PG-13) and it opens Christmas Day.
"Les Miserables" is the classic novel written in 1862 by Victor Hugo, the guy who also wrote "The Hunchback of Notre Dame". The new movie adaptation is a version of the world's longest-running musical.
Hugh Jackman plays Jean Valjean, a man imprisoned for stealing bread, who spends decades on the run from a ruthless police inspector Russell Crowe.
Anne Hathaway plays Fantine, a prostitute dying of tuberculosis, and Amanda Seyfried plays her daughter Cosette, who's rescued as a child by Jean Valjean and then raised as his own.
All the singing was recorded live, so the actors wore ear pieces while a piano player followed whatever pace they set.
Nearly all of the songs are from the original 1985 musical, but they did write one new song just for the movie. It's called "Suddenly" and it's performed by Hugh Jackman in the middle of the movie, after he saves the orphaned Cosette from being forced to work for Helena Bonham Carter and Sacha Baron Cohen.

"Django Unchained" (R) and hits theaters on Christmas Day.
Jamie Foxx plays Django, a freed slave who teams up with a bounty hunter to track down some outlaws and free his wife from a ruthless plantation owner. She's played by Kerry Washington from ABC's "Scandal".
It's directed by Quentin Tarantino, and the bounty hunter is Christoph Waltz . . . who won an Oscar for his role as a Nazi in Tarantino's "Inglourious Basterds". Leonardo Dicaprio is the plantation owner, andSamuel L. Jackson is his right-hand man.
Some of the other honkies with cameos in this movie are Gerald McRaney, Don Johnson, Tom Wopat from "Dukes of Hazzard", and Jonah Hill.