Thanksgiving Movies

Thanksgiving Movies

Lincoln Spector...

Actually, The Last Waltz is definitely a Thanksgiving movie. The concert was
on Thanksgiving, and included dinner.

Comedy Central used to do Mystery Science Theater 3000 marathons on
Thanksgiving. It's celebrating turkeys.

Anim8rFSK...

mmmmmmmmmmmmm

We ga-ther to-geth-er
To watch
Chee-zy mo-vies
At Com-e-dy Cen-tral
On Thanks-giving Day
With Mys-ter-y Science
GASP
Thea-ter Three Thous-and
It's thir-ty straight hours
And it's called Turkey DaaaaaaAAAAAAAAAAAAAy.

ravenlynne...

Now all we get are A Christmas Story and It's A Wonderful Life
marathons (I know not on CC...i just bugs me)

Anim8rFSK...

I've got my tapes of both the first two MST3K Turkey Day Marathons,
complete with bumpers

mmmmmmmmmm
We gath-er to-geth-er
To watch chees-y mo-vies

share the joy here:

Derek Janssen...

IAWL Marathons on every station?...My grampa used to tell me about those! :P

(Was that, like, way, wayyy back in those 80's days, before Republic
bought up the rights--
And now they only show it once a year, and like Charlie Brown, whenever
you want to see it, you find out you missed it three days ago?)

Derek Janssen (that's like, really old!)
ejanss@comcast.net

ravenlynne...

Last year they played it a lot. I know this because I detest that
movie and notice when it's on because I have to avoid it.

LindaY...

THE THANKSGIVING TREASURE with Lisa Lucas, Jason Robards, and Mildred

Fred Goodwin, CMA...

I'll add it to the list -- thanx!

Natwick.

Mrs. Wiggs Of The Cabbage Patch, 1934
Convicted Woman, 1940
Plymouth Adventure, 1949
A Day of Thanksgiving, 1951
The Thanksgiving Visitor, 1967 (TV)
Mouse On the Mayflower, 1968 (TV)
Alice's Restaurant, 1969
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, 1973
A Day for Thanks on Walton's Mountain, 1982 (TV)
A Thanksgiving Tale, 1983 (TV)
Broadway Danny Rose, 1984
The Hoboken Chicken Emergency, 1984 (TV)
Molly's Pilgrim, 1985
Hannah and Her Sisters, 1986
The Thanksgiving Promise, 1986 (TV)
Planes, Trains & Automobiles (R), 1987
Avalon, 1990
Thanksgiving Day, 1990 (TV)
Dutch (PG13), 1991
Scent of a Woman (R), 1992
Son in Law, 1993
A Walton Thanksgiving Reunion, 1993 (TV)
Nobody's Fool (R), 1994
Squanto: A Warrior's Tale, 1994
Home for the Holidays (PG13), 1995
Playing the Part, 1995
Breathing Room, 1996
The Daytrippers (R), 1996
The War at Home (R), 1996
The House of Yes (R), 1997
The Ice Storm (R), 1997
The Myth of Fingerprints (R), 1997
A Rugrats Thanksgiving, 1997
One Special Night, 1999 (TV)
Winnie the Pooh: Seasons of Giving, 1999 (V)
What's Cooking? 2000
Fourteen, 2002
Tadpole, 2002
Family Tree, 2003
National Lampoon's Thanksgiving Family Reunion, 2003 (TV)
Pieces of April, 2003
The Kids' Table, 2004
A Taste of Us, 2004
Turkey Day, 2004

William George Ferguson...

Considering it starts with the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade, shouldn't
Miracle be on there somewhere?

Fred Goodwin, CMA...

I've always thought of "Miracle on 34th Street" as a Christmas movie --
but if you want to call it a Thanksgiving movie, feel free.

et472...

But he has a point, the movie covers US Thanksgiving through Christmas.

Fred Goodwin, CMA...

Indeed -- I wasn't arguing with him. Personally, I've always thought
of "Miracle" as a Christmas movie, but there's no disputing it starts
on Thanksgiving.

Since US Thanksgiving is such a key point in the start of the holiday
season, it works as either. Because there will be Christmas specials
starting on US Thanksgiving or shortly after. It hasn't happened in
recent years, but there was a time when FOX would air that "traditional"
Christmas classic, "Home Alone" on US Thanksgiving.

Greg Bryant...

Much in the same way that ABC usually runs The Ten Commandments (not a movie
about Easter) on or near Easter?

Shevek...

In Spain, besides the Quo Vadis, Ben-Hur and certain others, is
traditional to run "Spartacus" near Easter. :-)

Greg Bryant...

That reminds me, I remember seeing Ben-Hur often run around Christmas. I
suppose that's an acceptable stretch since the movie does start with the

rebacay...

But it IS a "Passover movie."
rc

Greg Bryant...

Hmmmm. I hadn't thought of that.

birth of Christ.

David Oberman...

. . . although some think the Last Supper was a protoseder.

____
Psychiatrist: "Miss, I am not going to bandy words with you at this time of night."
Susan: "There is a leopard on your roof & it's my leopard & to get it I have to sing."

-- Bringing Up Baby

Jamie...

What about "The Sound of Music," which has nothing to do with either
Easter or Christmas, but is always aired just before either of those
holidays? I also seem to recall NBC airing it before Memorial Day one
year in the 1980s. NBC no longer airs it, however.

El Lagarto...

Has anyone mentioned Home for the Holidays with Holly Hunter?

Frank R.A.J. Maloney...

Likewise, _Holiday Inn_ which has a Thanksgiving section.