Seven Essential Thanksgiving Movies
Whatever you’re doing this Thanksgiving, here are seven movies you can watch to get into the Thanksgiving mood. Share them with your kids, and your parents. And feel better about your crappy family.
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1. Home for the Holidays
See… there are families as stressful and crazy and your family. What’s tougher than an adult child coming home to be judged? Still high, and pre-Ironman Robert Downey Jr slays it.
Buy Home for the Holidays
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2. Planes Trains and Automobiles
Stuck on the road and struggling to make it back home for Thanksgiving dinner. This is the funniest nightmare of all time. Be thankful we ever had a funny man named John Candy.
Rent Planes, Trains and Automobiles on Amazon.com.
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3. Pieces of April
Everyone dreams of a New York City Thanksgiving but that fantasy never takes place in the Lower East Side. Another film that reminds us that family is hard and irreplaceable.
Rent Pieces of April on Amazon
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4. Alice’s Restaurant
Yes Virginia there was a 1960s. Arlo Guthrie stars in a film based on the hippy anthem that still has him in demand every Thanksgiving.
Order Alice’s Restaurant on Amazon
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5. The Last Waltz
Marty Scorsese’s classic film about the last concert of The Band. Filmed on Thanksgiving and joined by Rock Icons like Eric Clapton , Van Morrison and Neil Young, This is the greatest concert film ever.
The Last Waltz (Special Edition)
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6. Hannah and Her Sisters
Woody Allen’s most beautiful film. It begins and ends with a New York Year Thanksgiving dinner. What happens in between is the comedy and genius of an American Master.
Rent Hannah and Her Sisters on Amazon
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7. Cold Turkey
The kids come home for Thanksgiving looking for money from Daddy and Daddy already lost it. If this family isn’t worse than your family, God bless you.
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