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Best Thanksgiving Movies

Well, the Thanksgiving is coming now, are you looking for the best Thanksgiving movies? You know there are countless of movies related to the Thanksgiving more or less, but which ones is the top Thanksgiving movies? In order to save you time on searching, here we will list the top 5 Thanksgiving movies for you. Just go on reading and have fun!

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Top Thanksgiving Movies No 1 - Alice's Restaurant

This award-winning 1969 flick recounts the somewhat true story of Arlo Guthrie (playing himself) and his buddies as they try to avoid the draft and get rid of a pile of garbage over Thanksgiving weekend. Forty years later, it's still got some good laughs and poignant moments.

Top Thanksgiving Movies No 2 - What's Cooking?

Experience Thanksgiving with four different families (Jewish, Vietnamese, Hispanic, African American) in a Los Angeles neighborhood. It has a lot of the typical holiday family issues and few not so typical. I think basically it's showing that even though the cultures are very different, the way people react to the holidays is pretty universal. It has a nice blend of humor mixed with the stress of holiday and makes for enjoyable feast. As a side note, it has a reference to my alma mater, UCSB...which, to set the record straight, does not have a business school.

Top Thanksgiving Movies No 3 - Pieces of April

In a very poor zone of New York, April Burns and her boyfriend, the Afro-American Bobby, are preparing to receive April’s family for a thanksgiving dinner. While Bobby tries to borrow a suit for him, April realizes that her stove is broken and she tries desperately to find a neighbor that can let her cook the turkey, since she does not want to fail (again) with her family. Meanwhile, in a suburb of Pennsylvania, her dysfunctional family is preparing to travel to New York.

Top Thanksgiving Movies No 4 - The Ice Storm

This movie takes place during Thanksgiving time in the early 70s with the Watergate scandal and Vietnam for a backdrop. It follows two families that are struggling with the sexual freedom of the time. Both the adults and the teens are experimenting to figure things out and it takes a major ice storm for them to realize what's really important to them. This is easily a movie I could have enjoyed less if it weren't for the excellent cast (Kevin Kline, Sigourney Weaver, Joan Allen, Tobey Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood) who all played their quirky characters well.

Top Thanksgiving Movies No 5 - Home for the Holidays

The penultimate Thanksgiving film, it’s a great heartfelt family comedy and drama with wonderful performances that comes in at number 2 on the list only because the number 1 film is just about perfect. This 1995 family comedy directed by Jodie Foster truly puts the fun in dysfunctional. The ensemble cast-including Holly Hunter as a just fired single mother, Robert Downey Jr. as her brother, and Ann Bancroft as the over-sexed matriarch-come together like the finest ingredients in a holiday stuffing.

That's all the best movies for Thanksgiving we introduce to you. If these movies are not enough for you and your family watching on the Thanksgiving Day, you can also try the Planes Trains and Automobiles, The Daytrippers, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, Pocahontas, etc., which are also good Thanksgiving movies. Have a good time!

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