Description: These are some of the movies that I especially enjoy watching during/around the Thanksgiving holiday. 🦃🥳🛎️🍽️💃🥧🥰 “Please mind the gap…” 😉😁 Playlist is still under construction (The order, is not in any order.) 😁 Additional note: This is my very 1st public playlist, so please be kind with your reviews, suggestions.🤗🤞🙏 Lol 😂 Thanksgiving-esque, Thanksgiving themed, Traditional, Non-traditional A little bit of everything… Comedy, Action, Romance, Sci-fi, Drama, Biography, Family, Thriller, Musical, History, Fiction, Nonfiction, Fantasy, etc…
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Planes, Trains & Automobiles
( 1987 )
A Chicago advertising man must struggle to travel home from New York for Thanksgiving, with a lovable oaf of a shower-curtain-ring salesman as his only companion.
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The Family Stone
( 2005 )
An uptight, conservative businesswoman accompanies her boyfriend to his eccentric and outgoing family's annual Christmas celebration and finds that she's a fish out of water in their free-spirited way of life.
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Little Women
( 1994 )
The March sisters live and grow in post-Civil War America.
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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (TV Short 1973)
( 1973 )
Peppermint Patty invites herself and her friends over to Charlie Brown's for Thanksgiving, and with Linus, Snoopy, and Woodstock, he attempts to throw together a Thanksgiving dinner.
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Knives Out
( 2019 )
A detective investigates the death of the patriarch of an eccentric, combative family.
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Stepmom
( 1998 )
A terminally ill woman has to settle on her former husband's new lover, who will be their children's stepmother.
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Beethoven
( 1992 )
A slobbering St. Bernard becomes the center of attention for a loving family, but must contend with a dog-napping veterinarian and his henchmen.
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Remember the Titans
( 2000 )
The true story of a newly appointed African-American coach and his high school team on their first season as a racially integrated unit.
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The Brothers McMullen
( 1995 )
Three Irish Catholic brothers from Long Island struggle to deal with love, marriage, and infidelity.
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The Farewell
( 2019 )
A headstrong Chinese-American woman returns to China when her beloved grandmother is diagnosed with terminal cancer. Billi struggles with her family's decision to keep grandma in the dark about her own illness as they all stage an impromptu wedding to see grandma one last time.
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The Blind Side
( 2009 )
The story of Michael Oher, a homeless and traumatized boy who became an All American football player and first round NFL draft pick with the help of a caring woman and her family.
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You've Got Mail
( 1998 )
Book superstore magnate Joe Fox and independent book shop owner Kathleen Kelly fall in love in the anonymity of the Internet, both blissfully unaware that he's trying to put her out of business.
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Scent of a Woman
( 1993 )
A prep school student needing money agrees to "babysit" a blind man, but the job is not at all what he anticipated.
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Little Women
( 2019 )
In the years after the Civil War, Jo March (Saoirse Ronan) lives in New York City and makes her living as a writer, while her sister Amy March (Florence Pugh) studies painting in Paris. Amy has a chance encounter with Theodore "Laurie" Laurence (Timothée Chalamet), a childhood crush who proposed to Jo, but was ultimately rejected. Their oldest sibling, Meg March (Emma Watson), is married to a schoolteacher, while shy sister Beth (Eliza Scanlen) develops a devastating illness that brings the family back together.
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Addams Family Values
( 1993 )
The Addams Family try to rescue their beloved Uncle Fester from his gold-digging new love, a black widow named Debbie.
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Silver Linings Playbook
( 2012 )
After losing his job and wife, and spending time in a mental institution, Pat Solatano (Bradley Cooper) winds up living with his parents (Robert De Niro, Jacki Weaver). He wants to rebuild his life and reunite with his wife, but his parents would be happy if he just shared their obsession with the Philadelphia Eagles. Things get complicated when Pat meets Tiffany (Jennifer Lawrence), who offers to help him reconnect with his wife, if he will do something very important for her in exchange
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Free Birds
( 2013 )
Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history, and get Turkeys off the Thanksgiving menu for good.
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Grumpy Old Men
( 1993 )
A lifelong feud between two neighbors since childhood only gets worse when a new female neighbor moves across the street.
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Home for the Holidays
( 1995 )
After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her family.
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The Ice Storm
( 1997 )
In suburban New Canaan, Connecticut, 1973, middle class families experimenting with casual sex and substance abuse find their lives beyond their control.
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Pieces of April
( 2003 )
A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.
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Dutch
( 1991 )
To get to know his girlfriend's son, a working-class good guy volunteers to pick him up from a prep school, only to learn that her son isn't the nicest kid.
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Rocky
( 1976 )
A small-time Philadelphia boxer gets a supremely rare chance to fight the world heavyweight champion in a bout in which he strives to go the distance for his self-respect.
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Soul Food
( 1997 )
One person can keep a family together and, when that one person is gone, a family can be torn apart.
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Dan in Real Life
( 2007 )
A widower finds out the woman he fell in love with is his brother's girlfriend.
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The Big Chill
( 1983 )
A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends.
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What's Cooking?
( 2000 )
Four families in LA of different ethnicity (Latino, Asian/Vietnamese, African and Jewish) gather together for Thanksgiving dinner.
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The Vicious Kind
( 2009 )
A man tries to warn his brother away from the new girlfriend he brings home during Thanksgiving, but ends up becoming infatuated with her in the process.
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The Oath
( 2018 )
In a politically divided America, a man struggles to make it through the Thanksgiving holiday without destroying his family.
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Son in Law
( 1993 )
Having gotten a taste of college life, a drastically changed farm girl returns home for Thanksgiving break with her best friend, a flamboyant party animal who is clearly a fish out of water in a small farm town.
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The Daytrippers
( 1997 )
When a happily married woman discovers a love letter written by her husband to an unknown party, she enlists her dysfunctional family to discover the truth.
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Alice's Restaurant
( 1969 )
A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic song story.
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The New World
( 2006 )
The story of the English exploration of Virginia, and of the changing world and loves of Pocahontas.
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L.M. Montgomery's Anne of Green Gables: Fire & Dew
( 2017 )
Anne is growing up into a young woman. Family, friends and romances throughout the PEI atmosphere. Left for college, there's an emptiness at Green Gables. Trying new and innovative things, Anne makes decisions for her future.
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The House of Yes
( 1997 )
A mentally unbalanced young woman - who is convinced she is Jackie Kennedy - flies into a murderous rage when her brother returns home to reveal he is engaged.
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Prisoners
( 2013 )
When Keller Dover's daughter and her friend go missing, he takes matters into his own hands as the police pursue multiple leads and the pressure mounts.
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Jim Henson's Turkey Hollow
( 2015 )
The Emmerson family heads to the quaint town of Turkey Hollow to visit Aunt Cly. Tim and Annie quickly grow bored without the Internet, and soon try to track the howling hoodoo, an elusive monster the locals dismiss as a legend.
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Paul Blart: Mall Cop
( 2009 )
When a shopping mall is taken over by a gang of organized crooks, it's up to a mild-mannered security guard to save the day.
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March of the Wooden Soldiers
( 1934 )
Opposing the evil Barnaby, Ollie Dee and Stanley Dum try and fail to pay-off Mother Peep's mortgage and mislead his attempts to marry Little Bo. Enraged, Barnaby's Bogeymen are set on Toyland.
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Funny People
( 2009 )
When seasoned comedian George Simmons learns of his terminal, inoperable health condition, his desire to form a genuine friendship causes him to take a relatively green performer under his wing as his opening act.
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Curly Sue
( 1991 )
A homeless man and his young companion, who survive by conning people, meet a woman who may need them even more than they need her.
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Nobody's Fool
( 1995 )
A stubborn man past his prime reflects on his life of strict independence and seeks more from himself.
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Hannah and Her Sisters
( 1986 )
Between two Thanksgivings two years apart, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
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Avalon
( 1990 )
A Polish-Jewish family comes to the U.S. at the beginning of the twentieth century. There, the family and their children try to make themselves a better future in the so-called promised land.
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The Last Waltz
( 1978 )
A film account and presentation of the final concert of The Band.
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The Proposal
( 2009 )
A pushy boss forces her young assistant to marry her in order to keep her visa status in the U.S. and avoid deportation to Canada.
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