Do you have a favorite Thanksgiving movie? For me it’s Planes, Trains and Automobiles or A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving.
Match the movie title to the description and maybe you’ll find this year’s perfect Thanksgiving movie. Most of these films are available for streaming if they aren’t on a network you watch.
Enjoy!
Movies:
1. Home for the Holidays
2. Planes, Trains and Automobiles
3. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
4. The Ice Storm
5. Pieces of April
6. The House of Yes
7. Funny People
8. Tadpole
9. Free Birds
10. Krisha
11. Son in Law
12. Addams Family Values
13. The Daytrippers
14. Alice’s Restaurant
15. Nobody’s Fool
16. Dutch
17. Hannah and Her Sisters
18. Scent of a Woman
19. Grumpy Old Men
20. The New World
21. Garfield’s Thanksgiving
_____ Ed O'Neill stars in this 1991 comedy about two combative characters and a road-trip home for Thanksgiving.
_____ Owen Wilson, Woody Harrelson, Amy Poehler, and George Takei lend their voices to this animated comedy. A turkey named Reggie is pardoned on Thanksgiving by the POTUS only to be kidnapped by a wild turkey named Jake. Jake, a member of the Turkey Freedom Front, wants to take Reggie back in a time machine to the very first Thanksgiving to rid turkeys from the menu for good.
_____ A fat cat who likes to eat and the Thanksgiving he gets put on a diet.
_____ Woody Allen's 1986 comedic drama starring Mia Farrow, Michael Caine and Diane Wiest which won him an Oscar for Best Original Screenplay and Best Supporting Actor and Actress statuettes Caine and Wiest.
_____ Peppermint Patty, Charlie Brown, Snoopy, Woodstock and a Turkey
_____ Pauley Shore stars as Crawl, the unlikely boyfriend to small-town-girl Becca (Carla Gugino). Becca brings Crawl back home for Thanksgiving, much to the shock and horror of her conservative farmer father.
_____ Katie Holmes invites her dysfunctional family from suburban Pennsylvania to her tiny apartment on the Lower East Side for Thanksgiving only to have her stove break forcing her to try to find a working oven in her building. Patricia Clarkson plays her semi-estranged mother who is battling cancer.
_____ Folk-rocker Arlo Guthrie (son of Woody) plays himself in this offbeat comedy film inspired by his song of the same name.
_____ Love is complicated at 15, especially when you have the hots for your step-mother, Eve (Sigourney Weaver), who is oblivious to your affections. Over Thanksgiving break, Oscar plans to seduce Eve's best friend in order to make her jealous.
_____ Hope Davis stars as Eliza, a happily married woman who finds a love letter from her husband Louis (Stanley Tucci) to an unknown woman while at her parents' home for Thanksgiving. With her family in tow, Eliza sets out in the family station wagon from Long Island into Manhattan in search of answers.
_____ This 1997 American black comedy film stars Parker Posey, Josh Hamilton, Geneviève Bujold, Freddie Prinze Jr. and Tori Spelling. Hide the knives when Marty brings Lesly home for Thanksgiving to meet the family with disastrous results.
_____ This 2005 drama is about the founding of Virginia's Jamestown settlement and the mythical romance between British Captain John Smith (Colin Farrell) and Native American Pocahontas (Q'orianka Kilcher).
_____ A Judd Apatow film about the comedy world and how friendships evolve into familial relationships, highlighted by a Thanksgiving toast given by Adam Sandler’s character to his “family. “ Also stars Seth Rogen.
_____ John Hughes, Steve Martin and John Candy – I shouldn’t have to say more.
_____ A woman arrives at her sister's house for a Thanksgiving celebration after years of estrangement from her family. Overwhelmed by her return to this seemingly normal life, she secretly starts drinking and popping pills causing emotions to run high while family secrets are exposed.
_____ John Gustafson (Jack Lemmon) and Max Goldman (Walter Matthau) act like feuding immature children while trying to win the affection of Ariel Truax (Ann Margret) which makes for an amusing Thanksgiving dinner in Wabasha, Minnesota.
_____ Your favorite family is back and a new nanny, Debbie (Joan Cusack), plans on marrying the uncle for his money before killing him off. The kids know something’s up, but Debbie convinces their parents to send them to summer camp—where they are forced to participate in a completely bonkers musical rendition of the first Thanksgiving.
_____ 1995 comedy about the Thanksgiving get-together of Holly Hunter’s dysfunctional family played by Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning and Robert Downey Jr.
_____ Paul Newman stars as an upstate New York construction-worker hustler at odds with his boss (Bruce Willis) whose wife (Melanie Griffith) he fancies. The arrival of his estranged son (Dylan Walsh) at Thanksgiving, leads to an amusing and touching reconciliation.
_____ Over Thanksgiving weekend, Chris O'Donnell's prep school student comes of age while caring for a blind retired army lieutenant (Al Pacino). It's a touching story of an unlikely friendship between two strangers.
_____ Kevin Kline, Joan Allen, Sigourney Weaver, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, and Elijah Wood star in this this Ang Lee's film about two well-to-do families in Connecticut trying to keep up appearances while dealing with infidelity and other family secrets during Thanksgiving.
