Thanksgiving Movies
For the people who will not be planted in front of the television to watch a myriad of sports events on Thanksgiving Day, there are actually Thanksgiving movies to be enjoyed. There are apparently so many of these that lists of the top five to the top ten best movies that take place around Thanksgiving appear all over the Internet. While most of these lists include many of the same movies, you can find a couple of different ones here and there if you spend some time looking. Read the summaries provided and that should help you make up your mind which ones you want to see and which ones you want to avoid.
One of the most popular of the Thanksgiving Movies is 1973’s A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving. While this movie was made for television and most likely targeted children, you can find DVDs of this movie to watch at home. Also as you watch this movie, you will understand that Charlie Brown and the gang are not necessarily just for kids. Adults find a lot of enjoyment from the hidden messages in this comic strip world brought to the screen.
The 1995 film, Home for the Holidays, has Holly Hunter playing the part of a single mother. She loses her job and finds out her daughter will not be coming home for Thanksgiving all on the same day. This is one of the more well known Thanksgiving movies that centers around a dysfunctional family and how they spend Thanksgiving Day.
The year 2000 offers the movie, What’s Cooking? The plot follows four very different families as they get ready for Thanksgiving Day dinner. It covers all of the usual holiday family stress with many great actors portraying the different family members. These include Kyra Sedgewick, Julianna Margulies, and Mercedes Ruehl.
In 2003, an indie holiday film called Pieces of April treated the public to a delightful holiday movie. Starring Katie Holmes as April, the black sheep of her dysfunctional family, this movie centers around her attempts to cook Thanksgiving dinner for her family. She is trying to do all of this in her New York apartment which is very tiny. One of the sweeter Thanksgiving movies, it has it all when it comes to holiday and family emotions.
Even if you cannot get someone to watch these movies with you on Thanksgiving, there is no reason that you cannot closet yourself and watch them anyway.
