{"id":4476,"date":"2012-11-21T12:11:21","date_gmt":"2012-11-21T19:11:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/sisterrosemovies\/?p=4476"},"modified":"2012-11-21T20:34:52","modified_gmt":"2012-11-22T03:34:52","slug":"best-thanksgiving-movies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.patheos.com\/blogs\/sisterrosemovies\/2012\/11\/best-thanksgiving-movies\/","title":{"rendered":"Best Thanksgiving Movies (aka Sister Rose’s favorite Thanksgiving movies)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<\/head>

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These are my all time favorite Thanksgiving movies. I will add comments as to why as soon as I can but I wanted to put up the list in case you were looking for a movie to see today or tomorrow. \u201cPieces of April\u201d, \u201cPlanes, Trains & Automobiles\u201d, and \u201cWhat\u2019s Cooking\u201d are for more mature viewers; \u201cThe New World\u201d is more contemplative in scope and may require more attention that kids can give.<\/p>\n

Pieces of April<\/a>\u00a0\u2013 click on the title for my brief review; I love this movie where the misfit and the outcast comes to explain the essence of Thanksgiving to a Chinese family \u2013 and to her own.<\/p>\n

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Planes, Trains, and Automobiles<\/a>\u00a0(Wikipedia)<\/p>\n

This Wiki gives away the plot but imagine if you were the Steve Martin character, Neil, in Witchita, KS and could not get home to your wife and children in time for Thanksgiving because every means available is thwarted. Then you meet an amicable salesman who wants to get \u201chome\u201d too and starts off as a means to an end, becomes an inconvenience, an irritant, a burden. Just when Niel can rid himself of his companion, he has a sudden realization and does something that completely expresses what Thanksgiving means. Remember that Martin\u2019s character is frustrated to the max so his language is an external manifestation of his inner reality; if you do this film will become most memorable.<\/p>\n