Marisa has a post up about her Top 5 Thansgiving movies. It’s funny she posted this, because I was just thinking the other day how there just aren’t too many Thanksgiving movies and we need more of ’em! Anyway, go check out her picks and add your own.
I’ve seen exactly one of those five movies. Guess which one?
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I’m nuts about Thanksgiving movies but the options are somewhat limited. “What’s Cooking” was cute but didn’t quite grab me for whatever reason… Both “The Ice Storm” and “One True Thing” involve Thanksgiving… but my list was already pretty bleak. And, clearly I LIKE bleak. But, you know, warm fuzzies are good too. I would LOVE some new suggestions. I still have like 36 hours to get to the video rental place…
I JUST said to my husband this morning that “Home For the Holidays” is my favorite Thanksgiving movie. I can’t believe you haven’t seen it, Tracy. It’s JUST SO GOOD. Holly Hunter is amazing and there are some really funny AND really poignant scences. I highly recommmend.
It’s funny beaause SO MANY people haven’t seen Home for the Holidays… but so many of us who have are so passionate about our fondness for that film. My Thanksgiving ritual is to make as many people watch Home for the Holidays as possible.
It has Holly Hunter, so if it’s not good I would be astonished. Holly Hunter couldn’t make a bad film if she tried. “Pieces of April” I only know as a Three Dog Night song. But I love that you put the Peanuts special on there. The jelly bean-popcorn feast (with TOAST!) is quite good.
Well, I LOVE Holly Hunter, so I’m gonna have to see it this year, really!
Nightfly – don’t you love that feast? I love that. Tomorrow if my mother demands to know why I am not making my macaroni and cheese this year (I’m sticking to seasonal foods) I am SO putting in The Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and making her watch it.
I really do reccommend Pieces of April… In some ways, to me, it’s like spirit of the Pilgrim and Indian legend being reenacted by a bunch of people living in a cruddy apartment building on the lower East side of NYC. IT IS sad in places, but I think it captures the Thanksgiving spirit so well.