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How many Thanksgiving movies are there?


I was thinking about it and this is the only one that immediately comes to mind. Are there any others/

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1. Planes, Trains & Automobiles

2. Son in Law

3. Dutch

4. Home For the Holidays

5. Free Birds

6. A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

I don't know what TV shows you like to watch but Friends, How I Met Your Mother, Roseanne, and Everybody Loves Raymond has some really good Thanksgiving episodes. :)

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Lots of romantic movies set in this time of year. Spring would make more sense. It's probably an aesthetic thing. New fallen snow looks pure/clean & chilly weather affords people a chance to dress up.

A few coming-of-age movies where freshman come home from college. High school movies are about youthful innocence. College is treated more like Rumsrpinga. Both are pretty cartoonish. So I like it when movies deal with this sort of middle ground.

But yeah, I don't know of any movie that better captures the spirit of the holiday.

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National Lampoon's Thanksgiving Family Reunion from 2003 is one I remember

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goodness there is so much to be found on the theme of thanksgiving, for example there is even not only one, but there are several family guy episodes revolving around thanksgiving, and so personally i've narrowed it down to this, the very family guy episode titled "thanksgiving" (featured on a family guy christmas dvd released in 2013 so it's even easy to pick out), the twilight zone radio drama "nightmare as a child" (caution, the thanksgiving part is not featured in the original 1950s television episode), ronald reagan's thanksgiving day radio addresses, and this featured length movie. i'm caught by surprise how soon the most famous scene of the movie appears, or maybe i just got the idea it is, but it's the one spoofed in family guy (though not one of family guy's thanksgiving episodes if i recall right), just about twenty minutes in, family guy has actually spoofed more than one scene in this, i can think of at least three different scenes and episodes, i'm referring to the shower curtain scene, the family guy spoof has mixed up the scenery a bit.



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wish i could trust and join,
find a warm place in your home,
but im so used now of not going near,
roaming my life out here,
and i cant enter in,
afraid you will hurt me.

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I would ask how many are actually good

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Just watched it. It's so good, still very funny.

Mad About You had an absolutely hilarious Thanksgiving episode. I didn't much like Mad About You as a whole because I found it a bit twee, but that particular episode had me rolling on the floor.

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