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Thanksgiving Movies

Name: Thanksgiving Movies
Creator: TMDB / IMDB
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Films set during Thanksgiving — family gatherings, gratitude, and holiday chaos.

Thanksgiving Movies — 9 entries in the movies category, sortable by Title, Year, Director. Every row is ranked by community votes, giving you a crowd-sourced perspective you won't find on Wikipedia or IMDb.

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Title↕	Year↕	Director↕	IMDB Rating↕	Genre↕	Country↕	Runtime (min)↕	Overview↕
Scent of a Woman	1992	Martin Brest	7.8	Drama	United States of America	156	Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade.
Hannah and Her Sisters	1986	Woody Allen	7.5	Comedy, Drama	United States of America	107	Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah's husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
Planes, Trains and Automobiles	1987	John Hughes	7.2	Comedy	United States of America	92	An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.
Addams Family Values	1993	Barry Sonnenfeld	7	Comedy, Family, Fantasy	United States of America	94	Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Meanwhile the new nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.
Thanksgiving	2023	Eli Roth	6.5	Horror, Mystery	United States of America	106	After a Black Friday riot ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts — the birthplace of the holiday.
Home for the Holidays	1995	Jodie Foster	6.5	Comedy, Drama	United States of America	103	A recently fired woman travels home for Thanksgiving to deal with her eccentric, wildly dysfunctional family — one of the best Thanksgiving comedies ever made.
Pieces of April	2003	Peter Hedges	7	Comedy, Drama	United States of America	80	April Burns, a rebellious young woman, attempts to cook her first Thanksgiving dinner for her estranged family in her tiny New York City apartment.
Free Birds	2013	Jimmy Hayward	5.7	Animation, Comedy, Adventure, Family	United States of America	91	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.
Blood Rage	1987	John Grissmer	5.8	Horror	United States of America	82	On Thanksgiving, a psychotic young man escapes from a mental institution and goes on a bloody rampage through a Florida apartment complex, while his twin brother is blamed for the killings.

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