Why is it that nearly every movie that you might think would be appropriate for Thanksgiving Day viewing is remarkably bad? Worst on the list are Pilgrim-themed movies. It’s hard for me to characterize the awfulness of Plymouth Adventure, arguably Spencer Tracy’s worst picture. It’s simultaneously sappy, incredible, and boring.
Which of the crop of Disney full length animated cartoons that have come out over the last dozen or so years is the weakest? I think it’s Pocahontas, another Thanksgiving possibility.
Some will argue that Planes, Trains, & Automobiles is an acceptable holiday picture. I find that it comes too close to home. It’s just too true to be really funny. Very painful.
The family in Home for the Holidays is just too dysfunctional for it to be a really good holiday picture.
There are two pictures, both in the “dysfunctional family” sub-genre of Thanksgiving pictures that I can recommend. The first is Pieces of April with Katie Holmes.
The other is what I think is the heavyweight champion of Thanksgiving pictures: What’s Cooking. It deals with the Thanksgiving day of four Los Angeles families and I can’t tell you any more than that without letting the cat out of the bag.
I found your site searching for hundred year plan, and finding an old post.
Just wanted to let you know that your link for ‘pieces of april’ goes to katie holmes. The link you want is:
http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0311648/