Thanksgiving Movies

[emptyspool]

Anyone have favorite Thanksgiving movies? Mine are below. I love them all. Pieces of April is the newest and most poignant.

Trains, Planes and Automobiles

Alice's Restaurant

Pieces of April

[rosen]

Home For The Holidays, w/ Holly Hunter. Here is what Netflix has to say:

"Claudia Larson is heading home for yet another chaotic and exasperating family Thanksgiving. But a new visitor offers some interesting possibilities. If they can duck the flying turkeys, this romance may just have a chance."

I think this movie is both very cute & a hoot. I really like Hunter, & all the supporting cast.

[Curiosity Hears]

Another big vote for Home for the Holidays. Absolutely love this movie. :)

[manetta]

Hannah and Her Sisters gets my vote. I am looking forward to watching it tonight.

[GingerPow]

Well, it's not a movie exactly - I love "Charlie Brown's Thanksgiving." I've told the kids for years that we'll have toast and popcorn for Thanksgiving dinner sometime. ;)

"Trains, Planes, Automobiles" first came to mind, as well as "Miracle on 34th Street" because Chris Cringle is discovered during the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. "Holiday Inn" is a good one too, as it is about an inn that is open only on holidays, with Thanksgiving being one of them.

I'll have to rent "Home for the Holidays." I don't think I've seen that one.

[Gilgamesh37]

I'm going to have to re-watch Home for the Holidays --I rented it when it first came out on video and just remember hating it. The only character I liked was Robert Downey Jr's--everyone else I found loathsome, and I just wanted to reach into the screen and slap some sense into Holly Hunter. (um, yeah....I get a little too involved in movies sometimes.....)

[little_bopeep]

I suspect that Ralphie will make an appearance Thursday night. :p

[Clover]

I enjoyed What's Cooking? (www.amazon.com/Whats-Cooking-Mercedes-Ruehl/dp/B000092T3G/sr=1-1/qid=1164242119/ref=sr_1_1/102-5218009-0946518?ie=UTF8&s=dvd), about the issues of four families of different ethnicities celebrating Thanksgiving in Los Angeles. It's directed by Gurinda Chadha, who did Bend It Like Beckham.

[sab1976]

Another vote for Home For The Holidays. I love that movie! Not Thanksgiving related but I liked Beautiful Girls a lot too. Came out a year later.

[Robyncz]

I'm going to have to re-watch Home for the Holidays --I rented it when it first came out on video and just remember hating it. The only character I liked was Robert Downey Jr's--everyone else I found loathsome, and I just wanted to reach into the screen and slap some sense into Holly Hunter. (um, yeah....I get a little too involved in movies sometimes.....)

You're not the only one. I know a lot of people who really didn't like this movie. I loved it. First off, I adore Rober Downey Jr. Personal disasters aside (or maybe because of them)he is a superb actor. And he and Holly Hunter were brillian together. I think the characters and the relationships between the family members is fascinating.

I need to get this out and watch it again!

[Peggy]

Home for the Holidays is my favorite Thanksgiving movie! :D In fact, we just watched the first half of it tonight during dinner. It's our annual preparation for the visit home. We will watch the last half when we return on Sunday!! ;)

Favorite line... "I can't wait for G** D@**! Christmas". My Dad used to say that every year after he had survived the annual Thanksgiving family theatrics at our house.

Peggy

[JellyBean22]

Planes, Trains & Automobiles is our favorite :)
Would like to watch it sometime today while I'm cooking, but with 3 football games on I might be outnumbered :rolleyes:

[sab1976]

This thread has prompted me to add Home for the Holidays to my Amazon Wishlist. I need to watch it now!

[SheRa]

LOOOVE Pieces of April (just watched it on Friday) and of course the Peanuts Thanksgiving cartoon. :D