Topic: Thanksgiving Day Movies

[addicted2dvd]

OK... help me out people...If at all possible I want to do a Thanksgiving marathon later this month... I would like to watch movies with a Thanksgiving theme (at least as much as possible)... and in between each movie a Thanksgiving episode of TV Series.

I looked at IMDB Keyword Thanksgiving.... Here is what they listed that I own. Though some are barely... like only 1 scene in the entire movie... The titles in bold I never seen before...

- Miracle on 34th Street (This one I want to save for Christmas)
- Brokeback Mountain
- The Blind Side (This one couldn't have been much as I really don't remember Thanksgiving in it)
- Spider-Man (Very brief Scene)
- Antwone Fisher (Britt's Disc)
- Grumpy Old Men (Been so Long I really don't Remember)
- Don't Say a Word (Been so Long I really don't Remember)
- Superhero Movie (Been so Long I really don't Remember)

Ideally I wanted to do from Thursday to Sunday... but don't think I have enough movies for that. Maybe do Only TV Episodes on Thursday... and Friday-Sunday do the movie/episode combo. That is if all those above could count.

Maybe I am missing some that are in my collection?

Could all the above pass for a Thanksgiving marathon?

What are other Thanksgiving movies?

What about Thanksgiving Episodes? According to DVDP I have 28 TV Show episodes dealing with Thanksgiving... though I haven't checked what I got this year yet.

Show	Season	Title
Buffy the Vampire Slayer	Season 4	Pangs
Commander in Chief	Season 1	The Mom who Came to Dinner
Dharma & Greg	Season 1	The First Thanksgiving
Everybody Loves Raymond	Season 1	Turkey or Fish
Everybody Loves Raymond	Season 3	No Fat
Everybody Loves Raymond	Season 4	No Thanks
Friends	Season 1	The One Where Underdog Gets Away
Friends	Season 2	The One With the List
Friends	Season 3	The One With the Football
Friends	Season 4	The One With Chandler in the Box
Friends	Season 5	The One With All the Thanksgivings
Friends	Season 6	The One Where Ross Got high
Friends	Season 7	The One Where Chandler Doesn't Like Dogs
Friends	Season 8	The One With the Rumor
Friends	Season 9	The One With Rachel's Sister
Friends	Season 10	The One With the Late Thanksgiving
Grey's Anatomy	Season 2	Thanks for the Memories
How I Met Your Mother	Season 1	Belly Full of Turkey
Jeff Foxworthy Show	Season 2	Thanksgiving
Party of Five	Season 1	Thanksgiving
Picket Fences	Season 1	Thanksgiving
Reba	Season 4	Thanksgiving
Reba	Season 5	Invasion
Roseanne	Season 4	Thanksgiving '91
Sabrina: The Teenage Witch	Season 4	Love Means Having to Say You're Sorry
Spin City	Season 1	The Competition
Sports Night	Season 1	Thespis
Too Close for Comfort	Season 2	Rafkin's Bum

I guess worse comes to worse I could always do a Thanksgiving TV Show episode marathon.

[MEJHarrison]

Wasn't Trains, Planes and Automobiles Thanksgiving themed?

As for the rest, the ones I'm familiar with (Brokeback, Spider-Man, Grumpy) weren't Thanksgiving themed.  They just had a scene or two that tied in.

[addicted2dvd]

I believe Planes, Trains and Automobiles was a Thanksgiving themed movie... But I don't have it anyway. 

And that is about what I figured on the others... may just have to do a TV episode day for Thanksgiving.

[Kathy]

Addams Family Values
Alice's Restaurant
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
The Daytrippers
Down and Out in Beverly Hills
Hannah and Her Sisters
Holiday Inn
The Ice Storm
Miracle on 34th Street
The New World
Planes, Trains & Automobiles
Pieces of April
Pocahontas
Scent of a Woman
Son-in-Law
Winnie the Pooh - Seasons of Giving

[addicted2dvd]

Thanks Kathy... but the only one listed I have is Miracle on 34th St. and want to save it for Christmas!

[Rogmeister]

There's also Home For The Holidays which stars Holly Hunter and which was directed by Jodie Foster.

[addicted2dvd]

Seems there is plenty out there... I just don't have many of them in my collection!

[Kathy]

Pete, do you have a library near you? If so, maybe you can borrow a few for your marathon.

[Dragonfire]

In Blind Side, one of the first days that Mike is with the family is Thanksgiving I think. 
I do remember that a few scenes are set that day.  The family was going to eat in front of the tv to watch football and Mike went to the table.  Then they ended up eating there.

[addicted2dvd]

Thanks Marie... I remember that now.

[addicted2dvd]

Pete, do you have a library near you? If so, maybe you can borrow a few for your marathon.

we do... but I don't get there very often. I will have to check their site to see if they have any of these titles before I make the trip.

[Jimmy]

This one


This is the overview
For those who think they've seen everything comes BLOOD FREAK, a rampaging turkey monster on a marijuana high!

Finding himself sandwiched between Bible-thumping good-girl Angel and her bad-girl sister Ann, a muscle bound biker named Herschell (Steve Hawkes, star of two obscure Tarzan films) falls under Ann's seductive spell when she offers him some weed. Quickly becoming a writhing, spastic addict - "I have a feeling I'm hooked!" - the big galoot then gets a job at a turkey farm where he's fed meat treated with an experimental drug and, like any junkie who eats tainted turkey meat, turns into a man with a giant turkey head. Yes, 'a man with a giant turkey head'. Who also gobbles like a big dumb bird.

Still hungry for a fix, Herschell-the-Turkey-Man proceeds to attack fellow drug addicts whose blood he drinks with his pointy little turkey beak. In one magical moment, he even buzz-saws the leg off a pusher who holds his stump and howls for what seems like days. All of which is punctuated by philosophical pondering by co-director Brad Grinter ('Flesh Feast') before two potheads with a machete decide to go on their version of a turkey shoot…

Wow. A monster movie quite unlike any other, BLOOD FREAK is a jaw-dropping almost legendary milestone in crackpot filmmaking, and the ultimate cinematic turkey. Gobble-gobble!

Turkey is part of your thanksgiving no?

[addicted2dvd]

  Something tells me the library won't have that one! 

[Jimmy]

We never know it's a classic

[Dragonfire]

 
Turkey Man ....oh my.  That is just...bizarre.  I've never heard of that before.