In the Name of Thanksgiving...

Thanksgiving. We all celebrate it every year.

And by "we all" I mean Americans. No offense, rest of the world, but you're not applicable here.

And every year it seems to get semi-skipped over because of big, more-marketable holidays like Christmas. Now, don't get me wrong, I'm all about Christmas, but I'm getting kinda tired of this holiday fast-forward thing that our economy seems to jump on in order to sell more decorations for whatever holiday may be two months away. So after having this existential meltdown about what the hell has happened to Thanksgiving, and how it has merely become a gigantic Christmas Eve, I started thinking about the reflection of that kind of thinking in movies. Now, I don't know about you all, but I was hard-pressed to think of even five Thanksgiving movies that I have ever seen. So, I set out on a Google-quest.

After sifting through about seven random websites listing awesome Thanksgiving movies, I found ten movies worth looking over. Some I had seen before and some I hadn't, but all of them had SOMETHING to do with Thanksgiving. So far, I have:

ThanksKilling (we all know how that turned out...)

Grumpy Old Men

Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

Hannah and Her Sisters

Pieces of April

An Old Fashioned Thanksgiving

Desperate Crossing: Story of the Mayflower

Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

Dutch

Home for the Holidays


So get ready for some coming attractions cuz I'm going to try and watch all of these in the approximate week before Thanksgiving. Here goes nothin'!