Bringemovies
← Browse Movies
Battle of the Bulbs
TITLE DETAILS

Battle of the Bulbs

2010-12-18 · 89 min · ★ 4.9

Drama · Comedy · TV Movie

Bob and Stu are former best friends who still hold a grudge from an argument they had when they were teenagers. Now, they hope to settle the score with a different kind of competition: who can out-bulb the other in their town’s annual Christmas decorating contest.

Open detail page

Trailers are previews, not full movies.

No authorized playback source configured. Use the legal watch options below.

Production details

Directors
Harvey Frost
Production companies
Pitchblack Pictures, Lighthouse Pictures, Daniel L. Paulson Productions
Countries
Canada, United States of America
Status
Released

Top Cast

Daniel SternDaniel SternBob Wallace
Matt FrewerMatt FrewerStu Jones
Allison HossackAllison HossackMindy Wallace
Teryl RotheryTeryl RotheryMary Jones
Emily TennantEmily TennantSusie Wallace
Tim HenryTim HenryMr. Sutton
Ryan GranthamRyan GranthamTim Wallace
Maxine MillerMaxine MillerLesley McKane
Luis JavierLuis JavierJoe
Jorge VargasJorge VargasRaymond
C. Ernst HarthC. Ernst HarthWalter Duncan
Morgan BraytonMorgan BraytonHelen Duncan
Daryl ShuttleworthDaryl ShuttleworthFire Marshall
Ellie HarvieEllie HarvieDoris
Alf HumphreysAlf HumphreysMayor

Title information and images are supplied by TMDb. Explore our discovery guide for advice on comparing metadata and legal viewing options.

Where to watch

Availability provided by JustWatch via TMDb. Offers can change. Provider links are listed on TMDb; full playback requires a separately authorized source.

Availability not listed for this country.

Recommendations

Three Wise Men and a Baby
★ 7.5
Three Wise Men and a Baby2022Drama · Comedy · TV Movie

Three brothers get the surprise of their lives when they are forced to work together to care for a baby over the holidays. As they slowly get the hang of things, they find themselves on unexpected journeys of self-discovery and begin to rebuild their relationships as brothers, as well as the damaged romantic and professional relationships in their respective lives…all while rediscovering their love of Christmas.

Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh
★ 7.3
Merry Christmas, Drake & Josh2008Comedy · TV Movie

Step brothers Drake and Josh must give a foster family the best Christmas ever or face years in jail for a Christmas party gone wrong.

Click & Collect
★ 6.6
Click & Collect2018Comedy · TV Movie

To save his daughter's Christmas, Andrew goes on a road trip with Dev, his neighbour from hell, to buy an elusive Sparklehoof the Unicorn Princess.

The Christmas Shoes
★ 6.8
The Christmas Shoes2002Drama · TV Movie

Two separate stories mesh - in the first, a young music teacher, Maggie Andrews, begins dying of a heart condition and her son Nathan tries to get a pair of Christmas shoes for her before she dies. In the second, lawyer Robert Layton and his wife Kate are slowly drifting apart and the matter comes to a head during Christmas when Kate takes over for Maggie for the school choir.

The 12 Days of Christmas Eve
★ 6.1
The 12 Days of Christmas Eve2022Comedy · TV Movie

When Brian Conway, a successful businessman whose family relationships have suffered, gets in a car accident on Christmas Eve, Santa gives him twelve chances to redo the day and repair the relationships in his life, including with his daughter Michelle.

The Trailer Park Boys Xmas Special
★ 6.9
The Trailer Park Boys Xmas Special2004Comedy · TV Movie

In this holiday prequel, it’s 1997 and Sunnyvale Trailer Park is getting ready for the holiday season. Julian’s got a great idea to make money this Christmas, Ricky gets confused between God and Santa, and Bubbles tries to get the Boys together for an annual Christmas bonfire. Meanwhile, Mr. Lahey is thrilled because Christmas is the only day of the year that his wife Barb allows him to have a few drinks. Directed by series creator Mike Clattenburg, this hour-long special takes place before Jamie was J-Roc, before Randy and Lahey were a couple, and before the Shitmobile was missing a door.

Kristin's Christmas Past
★ 5.9
Kristin's Christmas Past2013Comedy · TV Movie

Kristin, a cynical 34-year-old, drinks a mysterious champagne on Christmas Eve and wakes up seventeen years in the past, sharing a room with her 17-year-old self. Given the chance to change the worst Christmas of her life, she attempts to fix past mistakes, only to discover surprising truths about her family that may help her mend her present-day relationships.

A Dog's Perfect Christmas
★ 7.2
A Dog's Perfect Christmas2026Drama · Comedy

When a medical emergency pulls the Goss family apart, determined dog Winstead will do all he can to bring his humans back together before Christmas Eve.

Mickey and Minnie Wish Upon a Christmas
★ 7.0
Mickey and Minnie Wish Upon a Christmas2021Comedy · TV Movie

After a series of mishaps, Mickey, Minnie and the gang are separated all over the world and must try to get back to Hot Dog Hills by Christmas Eve. A mysterious and jolly stranger shows up to tell them about The Wishing Star, which could be the secret to bringing everybody home in time to celebrate together.

A Bramble House Christmas
★ 6.4
A Bramble House Christmas2017Drama · TV Movie

While settling his father’s estate, Finn Conrad becomes suspicious as to why the man left a nurse $100,000. His dad knew her for less than two months before he died. Just before Christmas, Finn wants what to reclaim what he considers his family’s money, going undercover to investigate the bed and breakfast the nurse has recently taken over. When Finn meets Willa, he discovers she’s not a conniving gold digger at all, but a woman in need who put the money to good use. When she discovers his true identity, will it keep Willa from ever trusting him again?

Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special
★ 7.2
Pee-wee's Playhouse Christmas Special1988Comedy · TV Movie

Pee-wee Herman and pals are celebrating Christmas in the Playhouse in their own creative ways: Pee-wee makes a list for Santa Claus 1.5 miles long, teaches Little Richard how to ice skate, goes for a sleigh ride with Magic Johnson, enslaves Frankie Avalon and Annette Funicello into making Christmas cards, receives a long phone call from Dinah Shore, even has more musical fun with k.d. lang, the Del Rubio Triplettes and Charo! Finally, Big Red arrives and announces that Pee-wee's Christmas list was so big, he didn't have enough presents for all the children of the world. Will Pee-wee follow his own advice and help others?

Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery
★ 6.0
Who Killed Santa? A Murderville Murder Mystery2022Comedy · TV Movie

A holiday-hating detective is forced to solve a murder — and save Christmas — with help from famous trainees who must improv their way through the case.

Christmas...Again?!
★ 6.6
Christmas...Again?!2021Drama · Comedy · TV Movie

Rowena "Ro" is a high-spirited 11-year-old hoping to add more spunk to her Christmas celebrations when her parents’ divorce is going anything but smoothly.

A Very Brady Christmas
★ 6.3
A Very Brady Christmas1988Drama · Comedy · TV Movie

Almost 20 years after the start of the original "Brady Bunch" the kids are grown up and have kids of their own. Everyone is having a wonderful time back at the family house for Christmas, until Mike learns of a structural problem in one of the buildings he designed. As he is inspecting the problem, the building collapses, trapping him inside. As the whole family waits by the pile of rubble, they fear the worst. Will Dad be all right?

Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas
★ 6.4
Zoey's Extraordinary Christmas2021Drama · Comedy

On her first holiday without her father, Zoey attempts to create a magical Christmas for her family just like the ones Mitch used to do.

Naughty or Nice
★ 6.0
Naughty or Nice2012Drama · Comedy · TV Movie

Krissy Kringle receives a delivery intended for Santa Claus. A magical book that shows if a person has been naughty or nice. She uses the book's power to find out about those around her, which leads to some very unusual and unintended results. Krissy realizes that everyone has some good and some not so good in them.

The Bridge Part 2
★ 6.2
The Bridge Part 22016Drama · TV Movie

The second-half of the movie picks up in the present day, seven years later, with Ryan returning home from being on the road touring as a professional singer and Molly working at her father's corporation.

A Veteran's Christmas
★ 6.5
A Veteran's Christmas2018Drama · TV Movie

Captain Grace Garland, a decorated U.S. veteran, returns home after two tours of Search and Rescue in Afghanistan. After being separated from her beloved K9 partner, Grace must rediscover the magic of Christmas. When she finds herself stranded in the town of River’s Crossing a couple weeks before Christmas, the local judge, Joe Peterson, offers her a place to stay on his property and takes it upon himself to show Grace everything she has been missing; Christmas, family, community, and love.

The Best Christmas Pageant Ever
★ 6.8
The Best Christmas Pageant Ever2024Drama · Comedy

The Herdman kids are undeniably the worst kids in the history of the world. They lie, steal, cheat, bully and overall terrorize their small community. But this Christmas, they're taking over their local church Pageant – and they just might unwittingly teach a shocked little town the true meaning of Christmas.

Angels in the Snow
★ 6.4
Angels in the Snow2015Drama · TV Movie

The affluent, yet troubled Montgomery family hits the road for a special Christmas in the mountains.

Similar titles

One December Night
★ 6.4
One December Night2021Comedy · TV Movie

Two music managers must put their history aside to oversee the televised reunion performance of their rock star fathers with a fractured past.

Ice Palace
★ 6.3
Ice Palace1960Drama

Alaska: America's last great wilderness frontier. A land of primitive grandeur, of glaciers, mountains and ice-fields. And of ambitious cannery tycoon Zeb "Czar" Kennedy and rugged activist leader Thor Storm, two rough-hewn men whose bitter 40-year rivalry mirrored their powerful land's struggle for statehood.

Christmas Time
★ 5.4
Christmas Time2017Comedy

Two estranged brothers try to reconnect at Christmas but there's something that one of them can't get past...the other thinks he's a time traveler.

Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July
★ 6.4
Rudolph and Frosty's Christmas in July1979TV Movie

Winterbolt is trying to make the North Pole his evil wonderland, and it is up to Frosty the Snowman, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer and others to stop him.

The Night Before Christmas
★ 7.5
The Night Before Christmas1941Comedy

It's snowy and cold outside, and warm inside where Jerry squeezes past a mousetrap to cavort under a present-laden Christmas tree. Mistaking the sleeping Tom for a plush toy, Jerry wakes him and a mad chase ensues.

Debbie Macomber's A Mrs. Miracle Christmas
★ 6.6
Debbie Macomber's A Mrs. Miracle Christmas2021Drama · TV Movie

When a family faces loneliness and loss of faith, Mrs. Miracle swoops in to renew their Christmas Spirit, and they experience a holiday of heavenly proportions.

You, Me and the Christmas Trees
★ 6.5
You, Me and the Christmas Trees2021Drama · Comedy · TV Movie

An arborist helps a fourth generation Christmas tree farmer whose evergreens are dying just before the holiday. As she tries to get to the root of the problem before the town tree lighting, they begin to fall in love.

A Lot Like Christmas
★ 6.1
A Lot Like Christmas2021Comedy · TV Movie

Jessica Roberts owns the most popular Christmas Tree lot in the picturesque New England town of Hudson Springs. But when big-city marketing executive, Clay Moore moves a "Big Box" store into the area and starts selling trees, Jasmine finds her business in jeopardy. As their professional competition escalates, Jasmine and Clay run into another complication - they start falling for each other.

A Dickens of a Holiday!
★ 6.8
A Dickens of a Holiday!2021Comedy · TV Movie

To make the 100th anniversary of her hometown's Victorian festival a success, Cassie invites action movie star and former high school classmate Jake to play Scrooge in A Christmas Carol.

Sugar Plum Twist
★ 6.1
Sugar Plum Twist2021Drama · Comedy · TV Movie

After failing to get the coveted role of the Sugar Plum Fairy in this year's production of The Nutcracker, Vivíana Serrano joins forces with Natalia, to create a surprise reprise of the Dance of the Sugar Plum Fairy...with a Latin twist.

Christmas for Keeps
★ 5.4
Christmas for Keeps2021Comedy · TV Movie

At Christmastime, a close-knit group of childhood friends returns home after 10 years to take part in the celebration of life of their beloved high school teacher.

Before Christmas
Not rated
Before Christmas2016Drama · Comedy · TV Movie

An orphan finds a family, old couple that has no children, day before Christmas. The twists and turns of this melodramatic comedy is inspired by timeless words of Branislav Nušić.

No Man of Her Own
★ 6.9
No Man of Her Own1950Drama

A penniless pregnant woman adopts the identity of a rich woman killed in a train crash.

Scrooge
★ 6.1
Scrooge1935Drama

Ebenezer Scrooge, the ultimate Victorian miser, hasn't a good word for Christmas, though his impoverished clerk Cratchit and nephew Fred are full of holiday spirit. In the night, Scrooge is visited by spirits of the past, present, and future.

Noel
★ 5.8
Noel2004Drama

With Christmas Eve just around the corner in bustling New York, five lonely and sad strangers find their lives inadvertently intersected.

A Miser Brothers' Christmas
★ 5.9
A Miser Brothers' Christmas2008TV Movie

Santa Claus and the mischievous brothers Heat Miser and Snow Miser are the targets of yuletide treachery when the North Wind tries to take Santa's place.

Santa Claus
★ 6.7
Santa Claus2014Comedy

One night, a burglar in a Santa Claus costume is surprised by Victor, a young boy who believes he is the real Santa Claus. Victor then follows him, and they embark on an unexpected adventure that will change their lives.

Angel Falls Christmas
★ 5.3
Angel Falls Christmas2021Comedy · TV Movie

A devoted doctor with little time for the Christmas spirit is in desperate need of an intervention from the unlikeliest of places.

Much Ado About Christmas
★ 6.0
Much Ado About Christmas2021Comedy · TV Movie

Haley is a wealthy heiress known for her acts of kindness. Haley meets hopeless romantic Claud, and she keeps her wealthy family a secret. When Claud pitches an ad campaign to Haley's mom and Haley's secrets are revealed, things get...complicated.

Christmas Time Is Here
★ 4.4
Christmas Time Is Here2021Drama · Comedy · TV Movie

Nia Moore ia a successful small-town real estate agent trying to sell a resort to her client, Julian. Much to Nia's dismay, the only resort that Julian wants to buy belongs to her widower father, Patrick. Patrick is ready to retire, but Nia wants to keep the property and the family memories it holds.

Your favorites

Recently viewed

Watch

Choose an authorized server.

Full video from an operator-configured authorized source. Official trailers use a separate player. If a server fails, retry or select another authorized server.

Legal watch options

Official trailer

Trailer preview only. Press Play to start.

Privacy choices

Favorites stay in your browser. Movie images load from TMDb. YouTube trailers contact YouTube only after you allow external media and choose a trailer. Advertising consent, if ads are enabled, is managed separately by the operator’s certified CMP.

Privacy policy

After allowing external media, choose the trailer button to load its player.