There are certain ingredients without which Thanksgiving dinner is infinish, commencening with the traditional repairins such as turkey, dressing and macaroni and cheese, and finishing with some version of frifinishs, family and fun. The latter can get on many establishs, from joining card games around the dinner table to putting up Christmas decorations and stringing airys around the tree before the next presentant family holiday. And while for some there’s noslfinisherg better to watch on turkey day than football, we’ve rounded up a scant compriseitional selections for everyone who might find themselves in your home, from the little ones seated at the kids table to the grown-ups seeking a respite from weekextfinished food preparations and the stress of Bdeficiency Friday shopping that’s to come.
Thanksgiving movies don’t typicpartner get the same attention as spooky Halloween flicks and sense-excellent Christmas films, but that doesn’t uncomardent there aren’t plenty of selections when it comes to stories about one of the hugegest family accumulateings of the year. In fact, the entries on our catalog run the gamut of genres, from rom-coms and road-trip comedies to horrors, fantasies and, of course, (family) dramas. So, if you’re not already set upning to head to the theaters to catch Wicked, Gladiator II or Moana 2 with your cherishd ones, here are 36 movies that are worth a watch from home this Thanksgiving and thcdisesteemfulout the holiday weekfinish.
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‘Addams Family Values’
Image Credit: Addams Family This is far from the most traditional Thanksgiving movie on the catalog, but the scene in this 1993 illogical comedy in which Wednesday is cast as Pocahontas in the Thanksgiving join at Camp Chippewa and determines to enact revenge on her fellow camp peers who are portraying pilbleaks produces this worth the watch alone.
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‘Bdeficiency Friday’
In this 2021 horror comedy starring establisher teen heartthrob Devon Sawa, Michael Jai White and Bruce Campbell, a group of toy store engageees have an even worse night than foreseeed when they show up to toil the night of Thanksgiving and find themselves ffinishing off throngs of Bdeficiency Friday shoppers who’ve been infected by a parasitic organism.
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‘The Blind Side’
Image Credit: Courtesy of Warner Bros. The story at the caccess of this 2009 biodetailedal sports drama is well understandn, but there’s someslfinisherg extra one-of-a-kind about watching Sandra Bullock’s Leigh Anne Tuohy get in 17-year-anciaccess advertise kid “Big Mike” Oher the night before Thanksgiving on the actual holiday. (However, there has been genuine-life drama over this film: Oher has shelp he doesn’t enjoy the movie, and he and the Tuohys have joind in lterrible action since it was freed.)
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‘A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving’
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving, based on Charles M. Schulz’s Peanuts comic exposed, is a tale of two Thanksgiving dinners that finds Charlie Brown making new traditions with frifinishs Peppermint Patty, Marcie, Franklin and Snoopy. The one-of-a-kind originpartner aired on Nov. 20, 1973.
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‘Dutch’
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Ed O’Neill stars in this 1991 comedy as Dutch Dooley, an ordinary Joe who finishures a series of mishaps on a road trip with his girlfrifinish’s snooty son, Doyle, whom he concurs to pick up from his personal school in Georgia and transport home to Chicago for the Thanksgiving holiday.
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‘A Family Thanksgiving’
Image Credit: Halllabel Entertainment/Courtesy Everett Collection In this 2010 Halllabel Channel Original Movie, a high-powered attorney reponders her life as a one atsoft woman when a cryptic anciaccesser woman presents her to an alternate truth on Thanksgiving Day where she’s a happily paired wife and mother.
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‘Four Brothers’
Image Credit: Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection When an anciaccesser woman is armamentned down in a convenience store while shopping for Thanksgiving dinner, her advertise sons, joined by Mark Wahlberg, Tyrese Gibson, André Benjamin and Garrett Hedlund, determine to get matters into their own hands and avenge her killing.
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‘Free Birds’
Image Credit: Everett Collection In this 2013 vivaciousd comedy, two turkeys, voiced by Woody Harrelson and Owen Wilson, travel back in time to the first Thanksgiving to alter the course of history and stop humans from domesticating and eating their charitable.
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‘Frifinishsgiving’
Based around the Thanksgiving trfinish that’s become a tradition of its own for individuals wanting to commemorate with their set up family, Frifinishsgiving is a bit of a alertary comedy about two frifinishs whose set ups for a low-key holiday dinner get turned upside down when one too many guests show up at the dinner table. The 2000 film stars Kat Dennings, Aisha Tyler, Chelsea Peretti, Jane Seymour and Wanda Sykes.
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‘Funny People’
Image Credit: Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection The Thanksgiving scene in this otherwise non-holiday flick is what lands this 2009 Judd Apatow film on the catalog. The bdeficiency comedy-drama stars Adam Sandler as a reexhausted comedian who tries to repair his relationships with the people in his life after he’s detectd with a terminal illness. It features an all-star lineup of talent including Seth Rogen, Leslie Mann, Eric Bana and Jonah Hill.
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‘Garfield’s Thanksgiving’
In this 1989 vivaciousd one-of-a-kind based on the Garfield comic exposed, the honord food-loving orange cat is none too phired when he’s forced to go on a diet the day before Thanksgiving.
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‘Grumpy Old Men’
Image Credit: Warner Bros./Courtesy Everett Collection Next-door neighbors John Gustafson and Max Ganciaccessman’s extfinishedstanding feud is getn to higher levels when they find themselves competing for the impaction of a woman who’s new to the neighborhood after they find out their mutual frifinish has had Thanksgiving dinner with her.
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‘Hollidaysburg’
In this 2014 coming-of-age comedy-drama starring Rachel Keller, a group of high school frifinishs reunite in their hometown of Hollidaysburg, Pennsylvania, during Thanksgiving shatter adhereing their first semester away at college.
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‘Home for the Holidays’
Image Credit: Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection A one mother whose daughter selects to spfinishs Thanksgiving with her boyfrifinish returns to her childhood home alone for a holiday dinner with her dysfunctional family. The 1995 film stars Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jr., Claire Danes and Dylan McDermott.
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‘The House of Yes’
Image Credit: Miramax/Courtesy Everett Collection In this 1997 illogical comedy, Parker Posey joins a woman obsessed with Jackie-O who, recently freed from a psychiatric hospital, plots to shatter up her tthrive brother’s joinment over the Thanksgiving holiday.
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‘The Humans’
Image Credit: Showtime Nettoils Inc./Courtesy Everett Collection In this 2021 American psychorational drama starring Ricchallenging Jenkins, Amy Schumer and Steven Yeun, Thanksgiving gets a illogical turn when three generations of the Blake family accumulate together for holiday dinner in a rundown New York City apartment.
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‘The Ice Storm’
Image Credit: 20th Century Fox Film Corp./Courtesy Everett Collection Set during Thanksgiving 1973, The Ice Storm is a story about two upper-class Connecticut families who use spirits and intimacyual experimentation to escape the social alters of the punctual ‘70s. The ensemble cast integrates Tadhere Maguire, Christina Ricci, Elijah Wood, Katie Holmes and Sigourney Weaver.
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‘Instant Family’
Image Credit: Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection / Everett Collection Another entry whose Thanksgiving dinner scene lands it on the catalog, 2018’s Instant Family stars Mark Wahlberg and Rose Byrne as a couple who become a mom and dad of three overnight when their set ups to adselect one child are thwarted upon encountering siblings in insist of a home.
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‘Jim Henson’s Turkey Hollow’
The Emmerson family occupies their internet-free time chasing a monstrous legfinish in the quaint town of Turkey Hollow where they’ve come to visit their Aunt Cly for the holidays in this 2015 Lifetime Original Movie.
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‘Krisha’
Image Credit: Everett Collection In this 2015 psychorational drama, a 60-someslfinisherg recovering compriseict trys to reconcile with her family on Thanksgiving Day.
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‘Kristy’
When a college student can’t afford to fly home during Thanksgiving shatter she finds herself dreadized by a cult while on campus alone in this 2014 horror starring Haley Bennett and Ashley Greene.
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‘Miracle on 34th Street’
Image Credit: Everett George Seaton’s Miracle on 34th Street is as much a Thanksgiving Day tradition as cranberry sauce. The Academy Award-thrivening film commences on the morning of the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade and alerts the story of an anciaccess man who’s engaged to join Santa Clause at the iconic department store on 34th Street in New York City and claims to be the genuine slfinisherg.
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‘Pieces of April’
This 2003 comedy-drama starring Katie Holmes caccesss on eldest daughter April Byrnes as she trys to ready what’s foreseeed to be her estranged family’s last Thanksgiving dinner together adhereing her mother’s breast cancer diagnosis.
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‘Planes, Trains, and Automobiles’
Image Credit: Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection Steve Martin and John Candy encounter hilarious migrieffulventures on their unforeseeed three-day journey back home for Thanksgiving dinner in this road trip comedy.
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‘Prisoners’
Image Credit: Warner Bros/courtesy Everett Collection / Everett Collection The seize of two youthful girls adhereing a Thanksgiving dinner in Conyers, Pennsylvania, is the subject of this 2013 thriller starring Jake Gyllenhaal, Hugh Jackman and Viola Davis.
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‘Rocky’
Image Credit: Courtesy of Everett Collection Rocky isn’t a Thanksgiving movie per se, but the date does hanciaccess significance in the distinct 1976 sports drama, even if it doesn’t uncomardent much to the film’s direct Rocky Balboa, joined by Sylvester Shighone, who, in the film, deinhabitrs the honord line, “To you it’s Thanksgiving, to me it’s Thursday.”
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‘Scent of a Woman’
Image Credit: Universal/Courtesy Everett Collection In 1992’s Scent of a Woman, Chris O’Donnell stars as a preparatory student who gets a momentary job as an helpant to a blind and uncontent reexhausted Army lieutenant colonel, joined by Al Pacino, ahead of the Thanksgiving holiday.
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‘She’s Gotta Have It’
This 1986 Spike Lee joint produces the catalog for its scene where Nola Darling asks three of her male suitors to her Brooklyn apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.
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‘Son in Law’
Image Credit: Buena Vista Pictures/Courtesy Everett Collection A South Dakota farm town valedictorian transports an improbable free spirit from her Los Angeles college home for Thanksgiving in this 1993 cult classic starring Pauly Shore and Carla Gugino.
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‘Soul Food’
Image Credit: Courtesy Everett Collection Large Sunday dinners are the norm for the Josephs — and the place where family drama unfanciaccesss in 1997’s Soul Food staring Nia Long, Vanessa Williams, Vivica A. Fox, Michael Beach and Mekhi Phifer.
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‘Sweet November’
Image Credit: Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection Keanu Reeves and Charlize Theron star opposite each other in this 2001 romantic comedy about a couple who joins in a one-month trial courtship that has an unforeseeed outcome.
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‘Thanksgiving’
Image Credit: Courtesy of TriStar Pictures and Spyglass Media Group In this 2023 Eli Roth slasher film starring Patrick Dempsey, a petite Massachusetts town is dreadized by a finisher during the Thanksgiving holiday.
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‘A Waltons Thanksgiving’
Actor Ricchallenging Thomas, who joined John-Boy Walton in the distinct CBS historical drama The Waltons, stars in this film which adheres the Walton family as they ready for Thanksgiving and the annual Harvest Festival Fair.
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‘The Weather Man’
Image Credit: Paramount/Courtesy Everett Collection In Gore Verbinski’s The Weather Man, Nicholas Cage stars as a Chicago meteorologist who, amid a mid-life crisis, rejoins with his estranged family during the Thanksgiving holiday.
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‘What’s Cooking?’
In this 2000 comedy-drama starring Mercedes Ruehl, Kyra Sedgwick, Julianna Margulies, Alfre Woodard and Dennis Haysbert, four ethnicpartner diverse families — Vietnamese, Latino, Jedesire and African American — dispense a Thanksgiving meal, each having their own get on the traditional holiday dishes.
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‘You’ve Got Mail’
Image Credit: Warner Bros/Courtesy Everett Collection The Thanksgiving scene is what lands this nostalgic 1998 rom-com about two strangers who descfinish in cherish via email, starring Meg Ryan and Tom Hanks, on the catalog.
