Topic: Thanksgiving

Direction Woody Allen

Cast Woody Allen · Mia Farrow · Michael Caine · Barbara Hershey

Synopsis Hannah and Her Sisters (1986) follows three sisters in New York City over two tumultuous years. Hannah, the stable eldest, supports her neurotic sister Holly and their emotionally fragile sister Lee. As their lives intertwine with husbands, lovers, and career...

Direction Lady Gaga

Cast Lady Gaga · Tony Bennett · Katie Couric · Art Smith

Synopsis A Very Gaga Thanksgiving is a Thanksgiving television special. Conceived and directed by Lady Gaga, it discusses the personal life of Gaga and the inspiration behind her music.

Direction Ang Lee

Cast Kevin Kline · Joan Allen · Sigourney Weaver · Christina Ricci

Synopsis It’s November 1973 in New Canaan, Connecticut. Watergate has caught up with Richard Nixon. The Beatles are recording solo albums. Wife-swapping has come to the suburbs. And, the Hood family is skidding out of control. Ben Hood (Kevin Kline) is...

Direction Trey Edward Shults

Cast Krisha Fairchild · Olivia Grace Applegate · Chris Doubek · Bill Wise

Synopsis When Krisha returns for a holiday gathering, the only things standing in her way are family, dogs, and turkey.

Direction Peter Hedges

Cast Katie Holmes · Patricia Clarkson · Derek Luke · Sean Hayes

Synopsis April Burns (Katie Holmes) has never been on good terms with her mother, Joy (Patricia Clarkson), but in a burst of goodwill she's volunteered to host her family for Thanksgiving at the Lower East Side apartment she shares with her...

Direction Rob Oliver

Synopsis The Simpsons face various Thanksgiving nightmares, including the first Thanksgiving, an A.I. mishap and a dangerous space mission complicated by a sentient cranberry sauce.

Direction Bill Melendez · Phil Roman

Synopsis Peppermint Patty invites herself and her friends over to Charlie Brown's for Thanksgiving, and with Linus, Snoopy, and Woodstock, he attempts to throw together a Thanksgiving dinner.

Direction Todd Holland

Cast Kyra Sedgwick · David Carradine

Synopsis Eighteen-year-old Dora is miserable living in an isolated desert town with her dour stepfather, but their discovery of mysterious "hole people" in a dried-up well changes each of their fates by Thanksgiving Day.

Direction Tex Avery

Synopsis The Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock and found a colony. A very large number of Pilgrims can be seen standing in line... for their cigarette rations. A Pilgrim goes hunting for Thanksgiving dinner. He meets a black market turkey, one...

Direction Gurinder Chadha

Cast Joan Chen · Mercedes Ruehl · Julianna Margulies · Kyra Sedgwick

Direction Eli Roth

Cast Michael Biehn · Jeff Fahey · Jordan Ladd · Eli Roth

Synopsis In the historical town of Plymouth Massachusetts, a deranged killer dressed like a Pilgrim goes on a killing spree on Thanksgiving day. The turkey will not be the only thing getting stabbed!!

Direction John Hughes

Cast Steve Martin · John Candy · Laila Robins · Lyman Ward

Synopsis All Neal Page (Steve Martin) wants to do is make it home from a business trip in New York City and spend Thanksgiving with his family in Chicago. Instead, he finds himself rerouted from New York’s La Guardia Airport to...

Direction Stephen Karam

Cast Richard Jenkins · Steven Yeun · Beanie Feldstein · Amy Schumer

Synopsis Set inside a pre-war duplex in downtown Manhattan, "The Humans" follows the course of an evening in which the Blake family gathers to celebrate Thanksgiving. As darkness falls outside the crumbling building, mysterious things start to go bump in the...

Direction Jodie Foster

Cast Holly Hunter · Robert Downey Jr. · Anne Bancroft · Geraldine Chaplin

Synopsis It's been said that while most people love their families, they don't always like them very much, and that emotional dividing line is the heart of this comedy directed by Jodie Foster. Claudia Larson (Holly Hunter) usually approaches family reunions...

Direction Emilio Estévez

Cast Emilio Estévez · Kathy Bates · Martin Sheen · Kimberly Williams-Paisley

Synopsis When Vietnam vet Jeremy Collier returns home to Texas, after serving in Vietnam, his presence immediately causes conflicts within his dysfunctional family. Then, during a climactic Thanksgiving weekend, the deeply traumatized Jeremy and his stony father have it out... and...

Direction Bart Freundlich

Cast Julianne Moore · Hope Davis · Noah Wyle · Blythe Danner

Synopsis A Sundance Festival special, this indie family comedy-drama was given unduly harsh treatment by critics when it was released. Starring as the long-estranged son of an emotionally distant father, Noah Wyle comes home to his family for Thanksgiving in hopes...

Direction Eli Roth

Cast Patrick Dempsey · Addison Rae · Milo Manheim · Jalen Thomas Brooks

Synopsis Following a Thanksgiving riot that ends in tragedy, a mysterious Thanksgiving-inspired killer terrorizes Plymouth, Massachusetts - the birthplace of the infamous holiday. Feature version of Eli Roth's fake trailer for 'Grindhouse'.

Direction Phil Roman

Synopsis Finds Jon with a love interest-a veterinarian who orders Garfield on a diet-and then comes for Thanksgiving dinner!

Direction Gary Winick

Cast Sigourney Weaver · Aaron Stanford · Bebe Neuwirth · John Ritter

Synopsis Beautiful, sophisticated women are all over Oscar Grubman. He is sensitive and compassionate, speaks French fluently, is passionate about Voltaire, and thinks the feature that tells the most about a woman is her hands. On the train home from Chauncey...

Direction Brett Ratner

Cast Ben Stiller · Téa Leoni · Eddie Murphy · Matthew Broderick

Synopsis Tower Heist (2011) follows a group of hardworking employees at a luxurious Manhattan apartment building who discover that their pensions have been wiped out by the wealthy resident, a Wall Street tycoon, in a Ponzi scheme. Furious and desperate, the...