The Garden Theatre has announced its programming lineup for the holiday season. Starting on Black Friday and running through Christmas Eve, the selection features cheerful classics, from Jim Henson to Jimmy Stewart to Dr. Seuss to Bruce Willis.

On Black Friday, November 29, Elf will be screened as part of the $5 Family Matinee series, which is free for members. The following day, A Christmas Story, the definitive Christmas film, is on the schedule. This series continues throughout December with The Muppet Christmas Carol, The Polar Express, the 2018 animated The Grinch, and a rare exhibition of the cherished Rankin & Bass work, Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, on Christmas Eve.

The $5 Family Matinee series is underwritten by jaZams, YWCA Princeton, Color Me Mine Princeton, and McCarter Theatre Center.

A Garden tradition is the annual presentation of Frank Capra’s parable It’s a Wonderful Life, starring Princeton University alumnus Jimmy Stewart ’32. Another Hollywood holiday classic, It Happened on 5th Avenue, will play on the big screen before patrons will have the opportunity to join Turner Classic Movies’ writer Hannah Jack in discussion for the Deep Focus Online Seminar series. Home Alone and Die Hard, which are the Garden’s December picks in their Retrograde series, are also scheduled.

The Garden Theatre is at 160 Nassau Street. Dates, times, and tickets can be found at the box office or at princetongardentheatre.org/specials/.