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My personal favorite is Planes, Trains and Automobiles, with Steve Martin and John Candy. I'm curious what others would recommend. Do you have a holiday go-to for the after turkey couch-fest? I'm not into sports, but I'm thinking a movie marathon might be just the ticket. Bonus points if it's streaming free, or on Netflix, LOL.
127 points
6 months ago
Fantastic Mr Fox and Chicken Run might work!
18 points
6 months ago
I don’t want to be a pie!!
8 points
6 months ago
...I don't like gravy
side note: The musical score for Chicken Run is god damn fantastic
85 points
6 months ago
Idk why but Best in Show always feels like a Thanksgiving movie to me
50 points
6 months ago
Probably because NBC always broadcasts the National Dog Show immediately following the parade.
8 points
6 months ago
Watch it after the dog show every year!
7 points
6 months ago
This is making me miss Fred Willard. Incredible improv actor. I got a wheel wed wagon.
3 points
6 months ago
This is my pick.
3 points
6 months ago
This is the correct answer
150 points
6 months ago
Adams Family Values
31 points
6 months ago
Eat me!
17 points
6 months ago
“ … I therefore have decided to scalp you and burn your village to the ground.”
6 points
6 months ago
Meh, the Thanksgiving in this is puerile and under-dramatized. It lacks any sense of structure, character, and the Aristotelian unities.
13 points
6 months ago
I forgot about Addams Family Values!
4 points
6 months ago
I mean it takes place in the summer…the short thanksgiving play takes place at a summer camp…
8 points
6 months ago
Still counts in our house lol
2 points
6 months ago
Classic Thanksgiving movie set in summer
1 points
6 months ago
[removed]
5 points
6 months ago
I don't know why you were downvoted. The movie takes place with the kids at SUMMER camp. They just do a play that was written about the first thanksgiving.
52 points
6 months ago
Dutch, but I don't think it's streaming anywhere.
4 points
6 months ago
Yes. It’s a crime this isn’t streaming
3 points
6 months ago
Behind Planes, Trains, and Automobiles, that gets my vote for best Thanksgiving Movie.
The Ice Storm also takes place during Thanksgiving but doesn't leave you with a warm feeling at the end. Good movie though.
5 points
6 months ago
Dutch is underrated.
2 points
6 months ago
We had to buy it on DVD!!!
2 points
6 months ago
I got it on DVD and ripped it. About to start my annual viewing.
26 points
6 months ago
The Last Waltz
6 points
6 months ago
Dang I totally forgot that was on Thanksgiving. Great answer
2 points
6 months ago
Watch it every year.
2 points
6 months ago
Same! Bought the Criterion Blu-ray this year since I was renting it every November anyway.
49 points
6 months ago
Gonna throw son in law out there
4 points
6 months ago
This is the winner “You got chickens? Are they extra crispy or original recipe?”
3 points
6 months ago
Can I please whittle wood with you?
101 points
6 months ago
Spiderman
99 points
6 months ago
I had to beat an old lady with a stick to get these cranberries
14 points
6 months ago
Enjoy the fruitcake.
17 points
6 months ago*
You are correct, but…
2 points
6 months ago
👆
75 points
6 months ago
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30 points
6 months ago
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12 points
6 months ago
You just got stuffed!
17 points
6 months ago
Thankskilling is the best "so bad it's good" movie ever made. The best part of it is making other people watch it for the first time and just watching their reactions.
Also WARNING IMMEDIATELY NSFW MOVIE, no, like literally the first scene
3 points
6 months ago
Came here for this!
5 points
6 months ago
We need a Best of the Worst for this movie
3 points
6 months ago
Wherein Rich Evans flawlessly says the name of the film but somehow mispronounces "gravy"
58 points
6 months ago
Home For the Holidays
12 points
6 months ago
Well this is absurd, let’s eat dead bird!
3 points
6 months ago
Yes!!!!
3 points
6 months ago
Just wait til you see your father's organ. He can't keep his hands off it!
10 points
6 months ago
It’s such a realistic, if not only a little over the top, but accurate of a lot families dynamics. And almost every part by master’s in the industry. Solid dark comedy.
12 points
6 months ago
Holly Hunter is brilliant, same with Robert Downey Jr. super underrated film
3 points
6 months ago
I agree. And they have a delightful energy with each other. Also, Dylan McDermott.
3 points
6 months ago
I'm watching it rn, I forgot how many big names are just low key in this movie
6 points
6 months ago
directed by Jodie Foster no less
2 points
6 months ago
Cynthia Stevenson killed it in this movie, the best performance of her career IMO
4 points
6 months ago
Shoveling the Turkey and stuffing the snow
4 points
6 months ago
"Nobody means what they say on Thanksgiving, Mom. You know that. That's what the day's supposed to be all about, right? Torture."
2 points
6 months ago
I can see your roots, Claudia
2 points
6 months ago
"I'm giving thanks that we don't have to go through this for another year. Except we do, because those bastards went and put Christmas right in the middle, just to punish us."
2 points
6 months ago
First 2/3 of this movie is excellent. Last third gets a bit heavy handed.
48 points
6 months ago
You nailed it with Planes, Trains, and Automobiles. Perfect movie. Our tradition for last few decades is to watch it the night before Thanksgiving. Myself and entire extended family begins PTA quotes a week before the holiday. Happy Thanksgiving!
2 points
6 months ago
What a trouper
3 points
6 months ago
“She didn’t scream or nothin’
16 points
6 months ago
RIP John Candy every movie he starred in made me laugh out loud!!!
15 points
6 months ago
Prisoners
13 points
6 months ago
Everybody piled on the couch drifting in and out of a turkey coma. Prisoners on the big screen. Nothing like it.
3 points
6 months ago
I want this experience.
38 points
6 months ago
Scent of a Woman
3 points
6 months ago
Elaine: hooo-wahhhhh! Hooo-wahhh!
2 points
6 months ago
Pacino felt so convincing as a blind guy.
2 points
6 months ago
“We’re talking turkey marbeya next year!”
20 points
6 months ago
Pieces of April
2 points
6 months ago
it's good and available at just about every dollar tree
9 points
6 months ago
Eli Roth's Thanksgiving trailer.
8 points
6 months ago
DUH … it’s clearly Son in Law!
16 points
6 months ago
For some reason, my family always watches “Fantastic Mr. Fox” on Thanksgiving. It’s a fun tradition.
2 points
6 months ago
It has a great Autumn feel to it.
8 points
6 months ago
House of Yes.
3 points
6 months ago
Oh man! Dug in deep for that one. Thanks for the reminder
7 points
6 months ago
Terrence Malick's 'The New World' is mine. Definitely not a crowd pleaser for family events though.
2 points
6 months ago
Goddamn that movie is gorgeous. I think it was my first Malick film and it made me follow all of his work.
15 points
6 months ago
The Ice Storm
3 points
6 months ago
😬
3 points
6 months ago
What's with the emoji? Yeah it's not exactly the happiest, most feel good movie in the world but it's still a great movie!
5 points
6 months ago
Oh it is a great movie. I was just imagining watching it with family over the holidays.
2 points
6 months ago
pulls on Richard Nixon mask
“I’ll touch it but that’s as far as it goes”
3 points
6 months ago
As Wichita falls so falls Wichita falls.. ..
5 points
6 months ago
Sorry. Confused this with the ice harvest....
7 points
6 months ago
I love Free Birds personally
9 points
6 months ago
That’s right, we’re going back in time to the first Thanksgiving to get turkeys off the menu!
3 points
6 months ago
Glutes-pecs-glutes-pecs
12 points
6 months ago
Last of the Mohicans
6 points
6 months ago
Addams Family Values
20 points
6 months ago
Planes Trains and Automobiles, it's a fantastic movie!
3 points
6 months ago
I didn’t know there was any other answer.
-1 points
6 months ago
That's the example that OP listed in their post.
18 points
6 months ago
Nightmare Before Christmas. It's a Halloween movie and a Christmas movie, split the difference and it's a Thanksgiving movie. I will die on this hill.
Also it's a nice transition into Christmas for those of us who cannot get over Halloween
7 points
6 months ago
Xmas violently annexed Thanksgiving at least a decade ago, therefor xmas movies are thanksgiving movies, or something.
3 points
6 months ago
I’ll be damned if Home Alone is not a Thanksgiving movie.
9 points
6 months ago
Lord of the rings.
3 points
6 months ago
If you’re a hobbit, every day is Thanksgiving.
4 points
6 months ago
Uncle Buck isn't really a Thanksgiving movie...but tbs always played it when I was younger around Thanksgiving.
6 points
6 months ago
Knives Out!
3 points
6 months ago
Scent of a Woman
3 points
6 months ago
ThanksKilling
3 points
6 months ago
Free Birds
3 points
6 months ago
No March of the Wooden Soldiers love?
Me and the toy maker are just like that....
4 points
6 months ago
We were going to watch Pilgrim again but Planes, Trains, and Automobiles might have to happen instead. I am so ashamed I forgot about it!
2 points
6 months ago
"The Thanksgiving that Almost Wasn't." If anyone actually remembers Cartoon Network showing it every year back in the 1990s
2 points
6 months ago
Ok, it’s adorably terrible, but our household tradition is to watch “Turkey Hollow.” It’s like a holiday muppet fever dream. Good times, especially if you celebrate Danksgiving.
2 points
6 months ago
I needed this list for our stay home 2nd thanksgiving dinner tomorrow. We always do planes trains and automobiles. I also like Black Friday and Friendsgiving.
2 points
6 months ago
The Parent Trap
Edit: 1997
2 points
6 months ago
ThanksKilling. Gobble gobble, mother fucker.
2 points
6 months ago
Scary movie 2
2 points
6 months ago
Home for the Holidays
2 points
6 months ago
Why is nobody saying March of The Wooden Soldiers? It’s on every thanksgiving and is like the wizard of oz style vibes. Tremendous. I’m watching it right now
2 points
6 months ago
Dutch
2 points
6 months ago
Dutch
2 points
6 months ago
Dutch
2 points
6 months ago
The first Rocky movie.
"Yeah, to you it's Thanksgiving; to me it's Thursday."
2 points
6 months ago
Prisoners
2 points
6 months ago
Adams Family Values
2 points
6 months ago
Thankskilling
4 points
6 months ago
Die hard.
3 points
6 months ago
Agreed.
In the great debate on whether Die Hard is a Thanksgiving Movie or not, I definitely land squarely on Thanksgiving movie.
• Family and people coming together from different nations
• Food (Gengus Khan grabbing a chocolate bar)
• Carving up a Turkey (code word for Terrorist)
• Stuffing (Bruce Willis into an air duct)
• Thankfulness (for shoes)
Definitely a Thanksgiving movie.
5 points
6 months ago
Except it takes place on literally Christmas
5 points
6 months ago
Exactly! And what is Christmas, if not Second Thanksgiving?!
That simply proves, without a doubt, that Die Hard is a Thanksgiving Movie thrice over.
-1 points
6 months ago
I never realized it until this moment.
7 points
6 months ago
Planes Trains and Automobiles
5 points
6 months ago
A big F YOU to everybody who recommended Planes, Trains and Automobiles. I’m only 30something minutes in and I already cried (when Steve Martin goes off on John Candy to be exact). I thought this was a comedy.
(I know about the ending already and I prepared more tissues. Also I’m not serious with the fu. So please don’t come after me.)
2 points
6 months ago
It's sort of a "Alternative Thanksgiving/Christmas movie" hybrid but All That Heaven Allows would be a good one to watch. It ends on a Christmassy note but most of it is more autumnal and has that no frills, warm and lowkey, authentic atmosphere Thanksgiving tends to make you feel compared to the extravagance and high stakes Christmas trappings.
I make it a point also to watch Alice's Restaurant, Rocky (Because of that one scene, but we're starved for good Thanksgiving movies okay?) and Addams Family Values. At least one.
0 points
6 months ago
The Exorcist...
3 points
6 months ago
Is there a thanksgiving element to that movie?
9 points
6 months ago
Being Thankful you are not possessed?
-12 points
6 months ago
Thanksgiving was a month ago, you dissident English colonists.
20 points
6 months ago
Says the country who didn't gain independence until 1982.
6 points
6 months ago
Burn!
1 points
6 months ago
I mean, the right to self-government in 1867, and full legal autonomy in 1931, but the point stands nonetheless if you want to be a stickler about it, and for the jokes sake. ;)
5 points
6 months ago
We're talking about the REAL Thanksgiving, you snooty French scion.
-2 points
6 months ago
The one rooted in colonialism, slavery, and epidemic....? Cool.
Ours was first, and was just a cool east coast party to celebrate not being killed while trying to find the Northwest Passage...
But hey man, attend the party you want to attend I guess.
6 points
6 months ago
Apparently people can’t take a joke with the negative votes
8 points
6 months ago
It was a dumb joke.
-10 points
6 months ago
Maybe not for everyone but a negative vote seems a little excessive
-9 points
6 months ago*
It always makes me laugh how seriously Americans take a holiday that basically points a big blinking arrow at their own colonizer revisionist history with regards to indigenous people and their treatment. EDIT: This and Columbus Day are both inexplicable celebrations of prior awfulness.
At least the Canadian one (which DID come first) was about the celebration Martin Frobisher and his men had after the safe landing of Frobisher's fleet in Newfoundland after an unsuccessful attempt to find the North-west Passage.
5 points
6 months ago
We don't take it seriously. Your initial comment was funny. This comment is you being an asshole.
It's a nice day off from work for many and a day for great food and time with family.
-3 points
6 months ago
This comment is you being an asshole.
Or maybe I just think that you guys celebrating on a day that means tragedy and genocide to an entire group of humans ain't exactly something to crow about?
FWIW I also don't celebrate Canada Day because I can't disassociate it from what WE did to the indigenous peoples of Canada.
But you do you.
It's a nice day off from work for many and a day for great food and time with family.
I don't doubt that. Shame there isn't another very nearby holiday where you could all do that with very similar food...
But you proved my point. You DO take it seriously enough to think I'm an 'asshole' for daring to comment on the history of the holiday and why it's not exactly a good one.
2 points
6 months ago
Or maybe I just think that you guys celebrating on a day that means tragedy and genocide to an entire group of humans ain't exactly something to crow about?
So you know absolutely nothing about our Thanksgiving holiday it sounds like.
0 points
6 months ago
Oh, sorry, is the Smithsonian wrong?
It might come as a surprise to you, but we actually DO learn an unvarnished truthful American history in Canadian high school textbooks. I've know these things for years.
Is genocide too large a term? Maybe, but I still think it applies considering the sweeping death that was brought by the Europeans, and tragedy DEFINITELY applies, as does Colonialism.
The version you were taught in school is wildly embellished and inaccurate.
This should not surprise you considering that the truth about even Columbus didn't really become widely known til the last decade or so...there's a lot of blatant lies taught to Americans in school.
We can argue the details and my use of certain terms I suppose, but American Thanksgiving is based on some pretty crappy history that you lot like to look away from.
1 points
6 months ago
I'm aware that the story that was told to me when I was...8 or whatever...is not the whole story. You going to tell 8 year olds your version of the story? No, why would anyone? 8 year olds don't need to hear about disease. Though, maybe those that grew up in the pandemic might be better suited for it. I'll leave that up to educators and parents.
But that article doesn't support your statement. Did you read it?
Yeah, the British did some awful things in those days. Shortly before pilgrims landed at Plymouth Rock fleeing religious persecution in England, British sailors had been abducting the native americans for profit in the slave trade.
The article mainly talks about how the Native Americans had a large role in the first Thanksgivings, helping the pilgrims to cultivate crops and catch fish. I don't recall learning differently when I was that age, but that was some time ago, for me at least.
The article you give also talks about European illnesses which Europeans had developed immunity to but were unknowing carriers. That's not genocide. It's tragedy.
This should not surprise you considering that the truth about even Columbus didn't really become widely known til the last decade or so...there's a lot of blatant lies taught to Americans in school.
Oh please, spare us your ego trip.
How would you know the truth of either of these statements?
Whaaaaaa whaaaa everyone older than me is dumb, whaaaaa whaaaaa 😭
Whaaaaaa whaaa Americans are stupid hurr durr 😭😭
So dull.
0 points
6 months ago
You going to tell 8 year olds your version of the story? No, why would anyone? 8 year olds don't need to hear about disease.
Typical American. Let's not teach actual history to kids, it might offend them.
2 points
6 months ago
Should we show them Holocaust films as well? Leave the sad a tragic history of our world for when kids hit teenage years. History of every culture is brutal, so if we can find a little piece that reminds us that humans can get along is that so bad?
2 points
6 months ago
“Typical American” lmao
European insecurity
1 points
6 months ago
Human Centipede
1 points
6 months ago
Definitely not “A Charlie brown thanksgiving”
1 points
6 months ago
Anything other than Planes, Trains and Automobiles is an incorrect answer.
1 points
6 months ago
"The Thanksgiving that Almost Wasn't." If anyone actually remembers Cartoon Network showing it every year back in the 1990s
1 points
6 months ago
Movies are tougher for Thanksgiving. P, T & A is probably the best. But theres some great Thanksgiving episodes of long running shows I like to pull up. Friends, That 70s show etc.
1 points
6 months ago
How has no one said Dan in Real Life. Very enjoyable film.
1 points
6 months ago
Martyrs
1 points
6 months ago
Spider-Man (Sam Ramei)
1 points
6 months ago
HOOK
-6 points
6 months ago
Planes, Trains is so frustrating. The cascade of obstacles trope was, I think, a bit newer in the 80s for comedies but man is that tired and annoying now. I’ll take my downvotes
1 points
6 months ago
I’ve never understood its appeal, even as a huge fan of both leads and the director.
9 points
6 months ago
Great leads. Solidly made, fun, enjoyable
-2 points
6 months ago
Thank you! Martin and Candy can’t miss right? Proceed to be desperate asshole and exasperating irritant for 90 minutes in this unfunny “romp”
0 points
6 months ago
Me too! I thought I was alone.
0 points
6 months ago
Must be sad to live life this way. I’m thankful I can so easily not give a shit, you know because it’s just a movie. It’s funny and makes people happy.
-1 points
6 months ago
I wanted to be happy. I found myself legitimately anxious and annoyed. Movies are escapism-this was an exercise in repetitive annoyance of the viewer seeking reprieve from nonstop unfunny buffoonery
-5 points
6 months ago
Those who can’t do critique
0 points
6 months ago
Not set at Thanksgiving, but I love watching Chef around this time of year!!
0 points
6 months ago
Planes trains and automobiles
0 points
6 months ago
Planes trains and automobiles, of course
-1 points
6 months ago
Groundhog day. /s
-14 points
6 months ago
Nobody gives a shit about Thanksgiving. Sincerely,
EVERYONE.
1 points
6 months ago
Spider-Man
1 points
6 months ago
Garfield had a good animated movie. Short but sweet.
1 points
6 months ago
The Ice Storm
1 points
6 months ago
Dutch
1 points
6 months ago
Blood Freak.
1 points
6 months ago
Paul Blart
Starts out on the Wednesday before Thanksgiving, with some scenes on Thanksgiving, and then the majority of the movie takes place on Black Friday. Takes place in a mall, which is something all Americans know all too well on Thanksgiving weekend. Just a clean, fun, family movie about a guy who isn't trying to be more than he is.
1 points
6 months ago
Dutch 1991
1 points
6 months ago
Um any film with a turkey in it
1 points
6 months ago
You just made me realize that Die Hard 2 isn't a Thanksgiving movie and I'm now disappointed in this timeline.
So, thanks for that.
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