10. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
Planes, Trains and Automobiles is a 1987 American comedy film released by Paramount Pictures. It was written, produced and directed by John Hughes. The film stars Steve Martin as Neal Page, a high-strung advertising executive, who meets Del Griffith, played by John Candy, a cheerful, overly talkative and well-meaning, but accident-prone shower curtain ring salesman who seems to live in a world governed by a different set of rules. -Wikipedia.org
9. Home for the Holidays
Home for the Holidays is a 1995 comedy-drama film directed by Jodie Foster and produced by Peggy Rajski and Jodie Foster. The screenplay was by W. D. Richter based on the short story by Chris Radant. The music score was by Mark Isham and the cinematography by Lajos Koltai. The film stars Holly Hunter, Robert Downey Jr., Anne Bancroft, Charles Durning, Dylan McDermott, Geraldine Chaplin, Steve Guttenberg, Cynthia Stevenson with Claire Danes, Austin Pendleton and David Strathairn. Claudia Larson is a single mom who has just been fired from her job as an art restorer due to budget cuts. She flies to spend Thanksgiving at the home of her parents, Adele and Henry Larson, while her only child Kitt decides to stay home and spend the holiday with her boyfriend. Kitt informs Claudia that she intends to have sex with her boyfriend. -Wikipedia.org
8. Willy Wonka & The Chocolate Factory
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory is a 1971 American musical film adaptation of the 1964 novel Charlie and the Chocolate Factory by Roald Dahl, directed by Mel Stuart, and starring Gene Wilder as Willy Wonka. The film tells the story of Charlie Bucket as he receives a golden ticket and visits Willy Wonka’s chocolate factory with four other children from around the world. Filming took place in Munich in 1970, and the film was released on June 30, 1971. It received positive reviews, but it was a box office failure. However, Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory developed into a cult film due to its repeated television airings and home video sales. In 1972, the film received an Academy Award nomination for Best Original Score. -Wikipedia.org
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6. Pieces of April
Pieces of April is a 2003 American comedy-drama film written and directed by Peter Hedges. In his commentary on the film’s DVD release, Hedges says the inspiration for his screenplay was twofold — his mother’s battle with and death from cancer, and a true story about a group of friends whose plans to prepare a communal Thanksgiving dinner were thwarted by a broken stove. The film debuted at the Sundance Film Festival. -Wikipedia.org
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5. Tadpole
Tadpole is a 2002 American romantic comedy film directed by Gary Winick and written by Heather McGowan and Niels Mueller. It stars Sigourney Weaver, Bebe Neuwirth, Aaron Stanford, John Ritter, Robert Iler, and Kate Mara. The main character (Aaron Stanford) frequently breaks the fourth wall throughout the film. Oscar Grubman (Aaron Stanford), the fifteen year-old prodigal son of Columbia University history professor and author, Stanley Grubman (John Ritter), is taking the train home from the Chauncey Academy for Thanksgiving; he is seated with his good friend, Charlie (Robert Iler).
An attractive girl from his school, Miranda Spear (Kate Mara), approaches him seemingly with interest and asks him what he’s reading. Oscar politely brushes her off telling her that is a work by Voltaire, later explaining to his shocked chum, Charlie, that he is in love with another woman, and that he plans to win her heart this break. -Wikipedia.org
4. Hannah and Her Sisters
Hannah and Her Sisters is a 1986 American comedy-drama film which tells the intertwined stories of an extended family, told over two years that begin and end with a family Thanksgiving dinner. The movie was written and directed by Woody Allen, who stars along with Mia Farrow as Hannah, Michael Caine as her husband, and Barbara Hershey and Dianne Wiest as her sisters. The film’s ensemble cast also includes Carrie Fisher, Maureen Stapleton, Lloyd Nolan, Max von Sydow, and Julie Kavner. Daniel Stern, Richard Jenkins, Fred Melamed, Lewis Black, Joanna Gleason, John Turturro, and Julia Louis-Dreyfus all have minor roles, as do Tony Roberts and Sam Waterston, who have uncredited cameo appearances.
Several of Farrow’s children, including a pre-adolescent Soon-Yi Previn, have credited and uncredited roles, mostly as Thanksgiving extras. The film is Allen’s biggest box office hit, without adjusting for inflation, with a North American gross of US million. Adjusted for inflation it falls behind Annie Hall and Manhattan, and possibly also one or two of his early comedies. As of 2010, Hannah and Her Sisters was the last film to have won both Academy Award for Best Supporting Actor and Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress, and the first since Julia in 1977, nearly nine years before. -Wikipedia.org
3. Home Alone
Home Alone is a series of films that was based on the adventures of a boy named Kevin McCallister (with the exception of the third film which focuses on a child named Alex Pruitt). The term usually refers to the first film in the series, which became the third highest grossing film at the time (1990), making a major star of lead actor Macaulay Culkin. Home Alone is primarily a coming-of-age story about an 8-year old boy, Kevin. He is the youngest of five and typically gets (as he puts it) “picked on”. The film opens to chaos in Kevin’s house, as he and his extended family (consisting of his parents, two brothers, two sisters, six cousins, uncle and aunt) prepare for a vacation to France for the Christmas holidays.
Kevin is aggrieved about having to sleep in the same bed as his younger cousin, Fuller (who is famous for wetting the bed), and about Buzz (his older brother) eating his only cheese pizza. He attacks Buzz in the kitchen, spilling drinks over the airplane tickets and passports. One of the tickets gets thrown out by mistake as everyone tries to clear up, and Kevin gets banished to the attic room by his irate mother. On the way up, he tells her he wishes his whole family would disappear. Kevin’s mom leaves him to sulk, and mentions she’ll find somewhere else for Fuller to sleep. -Wikipedia.org
2. Grumpy Old Men
Grumpy Old Men is a 1993 American romantic comedy film starring Jack Lemmon, Walter Matthau, and Ann-Margret, with Burgess Meredith, Daryl Hannah, Kevin Pollak, Katie Sagona, Ossie Davis, and Buck Henry. Directed by Donald Petrie, the screenplay was written by Mark Steven Johnson, who also wrote the sequel, Grumpier Old Men (1995). The original music score was composed by Alan Silvestri. Walter Matthau and Ann-Margret appeared in Neil Simon’s 1982 movie, I Ought to Be in Pictures along with Dinah Manoff. Matthau and Lemmon appeared in The Odd Couple in 1968, also by Neil Simon. -Wikipedia.org
1. Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving is the tenth prime-time animated TV special based upon the popular comic strip Peanuts, by Charles M. Schulz. It was originally aired on the CBS network on November 20, 1973, and won an Emmy Award the following year. As of 2007, the special is aired every November in prime time on the ABC network. This special has previously been released on DVD by Paramount. It was re-released on DVD by Warner Home Video in remastered form on October 7, 2008. It will be released on a Blu-ray/DVD Combo Pack by Warner Home Video on October 5, 2010. -Wikipedia.org
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