As the title suggests.
Mixed Nuts (1994) A suicide hotline cannot make enough money to stay open because being a suicide hotline is not profitable. They don’t charge for their services. The landlord is a total asshole, a caricature of a bad landlord, which is great. Don’t want to write any spoilers but the ending is hilarious and I’m sure people of this community would enjoy it.
Out of the more popular one’s, I’d say: Jingle All the Way (overworked dad doing all kinds of stupid stuff so his son could consume a product, and you have the police raising an “illegal” factory that is just providing a product where there’s demand, just what the shops do); Krampus (2016) (family forgets “true spirit of Christmas” because they’re obsessed with consuming, but unlike other movies on the same theme the ending is different).
How do you do spoilers? >!Is it like reddit?!<
Xmas capitalism: miracle on 34th street.
Xmas communism: It’s a wonderful life.
I could write an essay on the first one, because its super-insidious capitalist propaganda.
Jingle all the way rules tho. It does seem to be making fun of xmas-time consumerism, and the lengths people go to, to screw each other over to get that toy.
The scenes in the shopping mall are what Black Friday sales look like today, fighting and all. But back then it was considered ridiculous enough to be a comedy movie scene.