Thanksgiving 2016 is barely a week away. With menus and invitations out, you might want to add a bit of entertainment to your thanksgiving family dinner. As you decide to experiment with new or stick to the traditional Thanksgiving recipes, we have compiled a list of old and new Thanksgiving movies for you. Checkout our Best Thanksgiving Movies list and tell us which one is your favorite.
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Best Thanksgiving Movies
Holidays means reconnecting with family members far and near. And when there is extended family around, some sparks are bound to fly. Add some humor to your Thanksgiving Day and form lifelong memories with these amazing Thanksgiving themed movies.
Son in Law (1993)
You know how dangerous college can be :) Rebecca is off to college. But by the end of her semester she has fallen in love with Crawl. With a name like crawl you know what it means. She is headed home for Thanksgiving and she going to surprise her parent by introducing Crawl to them.
Director: Steve Rash
Stars: Pauly Shore, Carla Gugino, Lane Smith
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (1987)
Tales of Thanksgiving travels are many. But it gets extra tedious for those like Neal Page. Neal is a control freak. When his flight home gets delayed and re-routed he gets increasingly frustrated. His troubles are compounded by company of talkative co-traveler. Waiting times at the airport and early snow, this one definitely makes one of the top contenders for the best Thanksgiving movies list.
Director: John Hughes
Stars: Steve Martin, John Candy, Laila Robins
Home for the Holidays (1995)
In a classic family reunion, Claudia – a single mother – decides to spend Thanksgiving with her parents and the extended family. A stuffy brother-in-law, a conservative sister, and a gay brother are ready to plague her with the usual questions. But what is nagging her the most is her daughter’s plans for Thanksgiving.
Director: Jodie Foster
Stars: Holly Hunter, Anne Bancroft, Robert Downey Jr.
Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
Directed by Woody ALlen with Mia Farroe and Michael Caine, the movie tells an intertwined stories of extended family members that begin and with Thanksgiving dinners. The movie is loosely based on Swedish drama Fanny and Alexander.
Director: Woody Allen
Stars: Mia Farrow, Dianne Wiest, Michael Caine
Pieces of April (2003)
April Burns lives in a small apartment in Lower East-Side Manhattan, away from her somewhat dysfunctional family. But her bonds compel her to reconnect with them and her mother, who probably won’t see another Thanksgiving because of her illness. The heart-warming take is April’s journey into finding out the importance of family ties and making new friends along the way. With holiday travel and troubled family ties this one surely deserves to be on the Best Thanksgiving movies list.
Director: Peter Hedges
Stars: Katie Holmes, Oliver Platt, Patricia Clarkson
The Vicious Kind (2009)
Caleb is troubled and his break-up with Hannah has made him paranoid and angry. When he sees his visiting young brother with a girlfriend Emma during Thanksgiving, the ghosts of his relationship begin to haunt him. He first tries to break them up, but then secretly fall for Emma.
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Director: Lee Toland Krieger
Stars: Adam Scott, Brittany Snow, Alex Frost
What’s Cooking? (2000)
America is a melting pot of ethnicities and peoples around the world. In this British-American comedy, four diverse families – Jewish, African-American, Vietnamese, and Latino – decide to elebrate Thanksgiving together. But they all have their own way of celebrating and cooking the traditional Thanksgiving Dinner. Come, join this group to share and solve their unique problems.
Director: Gurinder Chadha
Stars: Joan Chen, Julianna Margulies, Mercedes Ruehl
Hollidaysburg (2014)
In a low-key movie with a fresh cast, Holidaysburg waeves a tale of group of friends as the decide to celebrate Thanksgiving in the small town of Holidaysburg in Pennsylvania. The movie tells a story of these friends and typical issues concerning family and romance.
Director: Anna Martemucci
Stars: Rachel Keller, Tobin Mitnick, Claire Chapelli
Awkward Thanksgiving (2014)
Some families are so entangled in a web of drama from relationships, financial issues, and so on that lead to big blow outs or worse, long awkward silences. This is the story of one of those families.
Director: Henrique Couto
Stars: Geoff Burkman, Mike Canestaro, Tara Clark
Did you find something for your Thanksgiving week? or is there another movie that you think that needs to be on the Best Thanksgiving Movies list. Share your Holiday favorites with us.
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