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Best Movies to Watch on Thanksgiving

Ratnashri Dutta
Thanksgiving is the perfect time to relax with your family and watch some great movies that everyone will love? Read on to know some such movies...
Turkey, expressing your gratitude, turkey, expressing your appreciation to God and family and friends, more turkey and a huge sumptuous feast, having your loved ones near you ... what a great way to spend a Thanksgiving day.
A day when people express their gratitude, their appreciation, and their thankfulness to their Creator and their family and friends, for playing an important part in their lives. After a huge and happy meal, get all your friends and family together and watch some really great Thanksgiving movies.
Planning to spend Thanksgiving like this, this year? Need some movies that the whole family can enjoy and that will also suit the festive mood? Here is a list of some of the best movies that you can get hold of this year and enjoy along with your family on Thanksgiving.

What to Watch?
A cup of hot chocolate drink or coffee in hand, a full stomach, and all your loved ones near you, and some really good movies ... a perfect way to wind up a perfect day. Here are some of the best options in the latter department.

The Ice Storm (1997)

Directed by Ang Lee, this movie is set on Thanksgiving day 1973. It is all about how two families are trying to cope with the political and social change that the United States was going through in the 70's and also about how each of them gets out from practices like drugs, alcoholism, and even sexual experimentation.

Pieces of April (2003)

Directed by Peter Hedges, it's about a girl, April, who tries to cook a Thanksgiving dinner for her family (probably the last dinner for her mother who is suffering from cancer), only to discover that her oven is broken. Find out how she manages to make the dinner with the help of her new friends and neighbors, and realizes the importance of having a family.

Planes, Trains and Automobiles (1987)

Directed by John Hughes, this comedy stars Steve Martin and John Candy, so rest assured that all you will get from this movie is laughter. It's about how Martin's character tries to go home for Thanksgiving, meets Candy's character, which leads to one disaster after another.

Scent of a Woman (1992)

This is about how a young student changes the life of a blind, medically retired army officer and how he saves his life. That same officer changes the life of the student for the better and finds out the woman who loves him truly.

The Next Three Days (2010)

This movie, directed by Paul Haggis, is a story about how a woman is accused of murder, and her husband (Russell Crowe) and their son try to free her from prison.
Here some more movies which you can watch.
  • The House of Yes (1997)
  • Home for the Holidays (1995)
  • The Daytrippers (1996)
  • Alice's Restaurant (1969)
  • Nobody's Fool (1994)
  • Faster (2010)
  • An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving (2008)
  • Legends of the Fall (1994)
  • Miracle on 34th Street (1994)
  • Hannah and Her Sisters (1986)
  • Tangled (2010)
  • It's a Wonderful Life (1946)
  • Nim's Island (2008)
  • Funny People (2009)
  • Tadpole (2002)
  • Dutch (1991)
  • The Blind Side (2009)
  • Paul Blart: Mall Cop (2009)

Kids' Corner

  • Mighty Joe Young
  • Harry Potter Series
  • Winnie the Pooh 'Seasons of Giving'
  • Garfield Holiday Celebration
  • A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
  • Dennis the Menace
  • Ratatouille
  • The Little Rascals
  • Rugrats Thanksgiving
  • Pocahontas
  • Home for the Holidays
  • Avalon
  • Prize Thanksgiving Turkey
  • Free Birds
  • The New World
  • Addams Family Values
  • Alvin and the Chipmunks - Alvin's Thanksgiving Celebration

These are some movies which kids as well as adults enjoy. So, grab that bowl of popcorn or that hot cup of coffee and get together with your family to bring a wonderful end to this wonderful day.