question of the day: What’s your favorite Thanksgiving-themed movie?

I didn't want to think hard enough to pick something myself, but the Critic Society's choice made me smile. That's one of my favorites too, maybe Number One after all. Cheers, and Happy Thanksgiving!

Home for the Holidays. Hands-down favorite Thanksgiving movie.

Didn't you do this one already? I mentioned Avalon last time.

::shrugs:: You picked the right one. It's hard to imagine PT&A ever being topped in this particular (extremely small) genre. It might be... someday... but not any time soon.

It's hysterical you let ThanksKilling into the running, though, hee. Was that your idea?

::shrugs:: You picked the right one. It's hard to imagine PT&A ever being topped in this particular (extremely small) genre.

I prefer the 1947 version of Miracle on 34th Street for sentimental reasons even though it's technically more of a Christmas movie. (Don't get me started on why I dislike the John Hughes remake. I'd rather not go into it at this time.)

However, PT&A is a good second choice. As is Pieces of April.

I'm taking the fifth on the rest of the movies listed. Though I'm surprised that Addams Family Values didn't get a honorary mention. Its take on Thanksgiving pageants was so MaryAnnish. Or would the proper adjective be Johansonian?

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Home for the Holidays. I didn't even have to look at the list. Love love love that movie.

Courtesy of Netflix, I recently came across a 2000 release called What's Cooking? which basically seemed to aspire to be sort of a multicultural mashup of Crash and Home for the Holidays, only much better than that description would imply.

It still had a few more stereotypes than I would have preferred (the unfaithful Latino father, the Asian gangsta wannabe, the tough-talking black grandmother, etc.) but apart from that, it actually did a rather decent job of showing how several non-WASP families--one black, one Jewish, one Latino and one Asian--celebrated Thanksgiving one autumn in L.A. and the various family conflicts that threatened to get in the way of a successful celebration.

Granted, it's not easy to think of many Thanksgiving movies that tend to involve people who weren't potential descendants of the Pilgrims, and given my own non-WASP roots, I have more than a little bias. But I thought the movie was a lot better than I expected and I don't say that about a lot of recent movies.

I was hoping MaryAnn would have reviewed it already but apparently she didn't. So I have to ask:

Did anyone else posting here see it?

And what did you think? Was I right about the movie? Wrong? Full of it? Whatever?

At the very least it seems more worth watching than Tadpole--but that's not saying much.