10 Movies You Forgot Were Set At Christmas
1. The Proposition
Christmas is quite different in Australia, and to that end the brilliant, criminally underappreciated Nick Cave-penned Aussie Western The Proposition has few hallmarks of being a Christmas movie or transpiring in a Yuletide setting at all.
Yet the plot - which revolves around gangster Charlie Burns (Guy Pearce) being tasked with killing his older brother (Danny Huston) in order to save his younger brother (Richard Wilson) from the noose - takes place in the days leading up to Christmas, with Christmas Day itself being the deadline for Charlie to grease his elder sibling.
Tonally it may feel nothing like a Christmas film and, being set in the Australian outback, there's not a lick of snow to be seen, but beyond the holiday being mentioned numerous times, the story literally climaxes with Captain Stanley's (Ray Winstone) Christmas dinner being interrupted by the outlaws.
The real lesson here, though? If you've slept on The Proposition all these years, you owe it to yourself to change that, like, immediately.