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, liberal 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 )
Jo struggles for independence and sometimes clashes with her beloved mother and sisters Meg, Amy and Beth. She also contends with their cranky Aunt March, their impulsive neighbor Laurie and kindly linguistics professor Friedrich Bhaer.
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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 must deal with her ex-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 George and Alice Newton's loving family, who must contend with dog-napping local veterinarian Dr. Herman Varnick and his henchmen Harvey and Vernon.
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Remember the Titans
( 2000 )
In 1971, Virginia high-school football was everything to the people of Alexandria, but when the school board was forced to integrate an all-Black school with an all-white one, the foundation of football's tradition was put to the test.
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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 19th century Massachusetts, the March sisters--Meg, Jo, Beth, and Amy--on the threshold of womanhood, go through many ups and downs in life and endeavor to make important decisions about their futures.
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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 a stint in a mental institution, former teacher Pat Solitano moves back in with his parents and tries to reconcile with his ex-wife. Things get more challenging when Pat meets Tiffany, a mysterious girl with problems of her own.
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Free Birds
( 2013 )
A pair of turkeys discover a time machine and decide to use it to travel to the first Thanksgiving, to take turkeys off the menu forever.
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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 being fired, making out with her soon-to-be ex-boss, and discovering that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces the unenviable task of spending the holiday with her exceedingly dull family.
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The Ice Storm
( 1997 )
In 1973 suburbia, several middle-class families experimenting with substance abuse and the swinging lifestyle find their lives spinning 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 his prep school, only to learn that he isn't the nicest young man.
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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 she discovers a love letter written to her husband by an unknown paramour, the distraught Eliza turns to her tight-knit Long Island family for advice.
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Alice's Restaurant
( 1969 )
A cinematic adaption of Arlo Guthrie's classic story-song.
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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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Anne of Green Gables: Fire and 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 )
A desperate father takes the law into his own hands after police fail to find two kidnapped girls.
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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, Stannie Dum and Ollie Dee 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 )
When New York editor Margaret faces deportation, she convinces her assistant Andrew to marry her in return for a promotion. However, when she visits his hometown, it changes her in many ways.
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