Planes, Trains and Automobiles
1987
1h 32mR
Steve Martin just wants to get home for Thanksgiving, and John Candy is the universe's answer. Rated R for one very famous meltdown. On Paramount+ and Peacock. The Thanksgiving movie.
Every service
Thanksgiving
The long drive home, the crowded table, the one good pie.
Addams Family Values
1993
1h 35mPG-13
Wednesday goes to summer camp, a new baby arrives, and Thanksgiving gets a pageant it will not forget. The 1993 sequel, PG-13, on Paramount+. Sharper than the first, and very funny.
Dan in Real Life
2007
1h 38mPG-13
A widowed advice columnist falls for his brother's girlfriend over a crowded family weekend. Steve Carell, gentle and grown-up, on Disney+. It feels like late autumn in a rented house.
Free Birds
2013
1h 31mPG
Two turkeys time-travel to get turkey off the Thanksgiving menu. It is a kids' cartoon and it is proud of that. On Paramount+ and Tubi.
Friendsgiving
2020
1h 35mR
Friends try to cook Thanksgiving and also survive their love lives. Rated R, on Peacock. For a table of adults, not the kids' table.
Home for the Holidays
1995
1h 43mPG-13
Holly Hunter goes home for Thanksgiving and the family is a loving disaster. 1995, PG-13, on Paramount+. The one that feels like a real dining room.
Pieces of April
2003
1h 21mPG-13
April is cooking Thanksgiving for a family that does not expect much from her, in a tiny apartment with a broken oven. Short, sharp, and sweet. On Prime and Tubi.
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