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Poor Thanksgiving! It gets short shrift all around. Not only is it completely upstaged by Christmas, but now Black Friday means that Thanksgiving only gets a single day, and in the last few years (interrupted only by the Pandemic), Black Friday starts Thursday afternoon so you don’t even have time to do the dishes before Thanksgiving’s over and it’s on to the Christmas spending frenzy.
The same is true for movies. Hallmark devotes an entire month to Christmas movies and there are dozens of other new and old classics to watch, but there are hardly any Thanksgiving movies, and the ones there are always seem to involve a person who’s terminally ill. (Don’t believe me? How about STEPMOM, FUNNY PEOPLE, and ONE TRUE THING, to say nothing of THE BIG CHILL, in which the person’s already died?) Movies like that are the last thing we need in this Pandemic-That-Never-Seems-To-End.
So here’s a list of some cheerful Thanksgiving movies to watch in the ninety seconds or so between Thanksgiving dinner and Black Friday:
The top four in my family are:
1. PLANES, TRAINS, AND AUTOMOBILES–This is the hands-down best ever Thanksgiving movie, about Steve Martin’s struggles to get home in time for Thanksgiving dinner, against obstacles including flight cancellations, scary motels, cattle trucks, near-death-on-the-highway, and John Candy. We watch it every year.
2. DEAR GOD–For some reason nobody’s ever heard of this movie, even though it was made by Penny Marshall and stars Greg Kinear and a host of crazies who work in the dead-letter office at the Post Office. It starts in the fall and goes all the way to the day before Christmas, and it has a wonderful Thanksgiving scene–at a miniature golf course.
3. YOU’VE GOT MAIL–This remake of THE SHOP AROUND THE CORNER (which is definitely a Christmas movie and should be watched then, preferably on Christmas Eve) takes place through the fall, and has not only Thanksgiving get-togethers but the shopping you have to do beforehand, with a very funny scene set in a cash-only lane at the grocery store.
4. ADDAMS FAMILY VALUES–The Addams Family are always great, but this one was made even more special by Wednesday’s participation in a Thanksgiving Pageant at her school.
And these are good, too:
5. HOME FOR THE HOLIDAYS–This movie, which stars Holly Hunter and Robert Downey, Jr., is all about coming home for Thanksgiving and dealing with your highly dysfunctional family.
6. SCENT OF A WOMAN–If you want to avoid going home for Thanksgiving, you can always hire out for Thanksgiving weekend to assist a blind man, especially if the blind man is Al Pacino, who is not at all the helpless invalid Chris O’Donnell expects and who has very interesting ideas about what makes a good weekend, many of them involving Gabrielle Anwar.
7. MIRACLE ON 34TH STREET–I know, I know, this is a Christmas movie, but everyone always forgets that it starts with the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and Natalie Wood tricking her mother into inviting John Payne to Thanksgiving dinner. (I am of course referring to the black-and-white original version, which is the only one worth watching.)
8. And speaking of the Macy’s Parade, there’s TOWER HEIST, a movie about a bunch of guys (Ben Stiller, Eddie Murphy, Casey Affleck) who’ve lost all their money in a Ponzi scheme planning a heist that will get their money back and get revenge on the guy who stole it. They decide the best time to pull off the heist is during the Macy’s Parade, since everybody’s busy watching the balloons and the bands.
9. PAUL BLART: MALL COP–This movie’s not about Thanksgiving but about Black Friday, which apparently is also a good time to commit a crime, and the only person standing between them and success is Kevin James.
10. SEMI-TOUGH–And if you can’t get through Thanksgiving without watching football, this is probably the best football movie ever made, with Burt Reynolds, Kris Kristofferson, Jill Clayburgh, and an incredible storyline involving the playoffs and an EST-type psychological guru.
11. Or if you’re the sentimental type, you can watch THE BLIND SIDE, a heartwarming true football story about a Southern family who befriended a black kid with no prospects and made him part of their family. It’s funny and sweet and has a great Thanksgiving dinner scene.
I hope you have a happy Thanksgiving and that you have a lot to be grateful for.
I know I do.
Including my family, my friends, and all of you.
Plus great Thanksgiving movies to watch.
Connie Willis