Gobble up the best Thanksgiving movies available to stream
“Yeah, to you it’s Thanksgiving; to me it’s Thursday.”
If you’re looking to fill the downtime after feasting with the fam on Thanksgiving next week and football isn’t really your thing, don’t sweat it — I’ve rounded up the best Thanksgiving-themed movies to keep you entertained all day, before and after the kids go to bed. So after you’ve sufficiently filled up on overdone turkey, dry dinner rolls, and extra helpings of green bean casserole, nestle up on the couch with some of these Thanksgiving holiday favorites.
Our favorite Thanksgiving movies
Our all-time favorite, and probably the most recognizable, is the 1987 classic “Plains, Trains and Automobiles” starring Steve Martin and John Candy. We also are partial to 1995’s “Home for the Holidays” and 1992’s “Scent of a Woman”, which are both high on our list.
Of course, you can’t sleep on the mantra that if “Die Hard” is a Christmas movie, then “Rocky” is a Thanksgiving movie.
If you need something that the whole family can enjoy, we would recommend the animated classic “A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving” and the family favorite sequel “Addams Family Values”.
Check out our full list of Thanksgiving movie recommendations:
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A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
November 20, 1973Turkey, cranberries, pumpkin pie… and the Peanuts gang to share them with. This is going to be the greatest Thanksgiving ever! The fun begins when Peppermint Patty invites herself and her pals to Charlie Brown’s house for a REALLY big turkey party. Good grief! All our hero can cook is cold cereal and maybe toast. Is Charlie Brown doomed? Not when Linus, Snoopy and Woodstock chip in to save the (Thanksgiving) Day. With such good friends, Charlie Brown - and all of us - have so many reasons to be thankful.
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Rocky
November 20, 1976An uneducated collector for a Philadelphia loan shark is given a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to fight against the world heavyweight boxing champion.
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Hannah and Her Sisters
February 7, 1986Between two Thanksgivings, Hannah’s husband falls in love with her sister Lee, while her hypochondriac ex-husband rekindles his relationship with her sister Holly.
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Planes, Trains and Automobiles
November 26, 1987An irritable marketing executive, Neal Page, is heading home to Chicago for Thanksgiving when a number of delays force him to travel with a well meaning but overbearing shower curtain ring salesman, Del Griffith.
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Scent of a Woman
December 23, 1992Charlie Simms is a student at a private preparatory school who comes from a poor family. To earn the money for his flight home to Gresham, Oregon for Christmas, Charlie takes a job over Thanksgiving looking after retired U.S. Army officer Lieutenant Colonel Frank Slade, a cantankerous middle-aged man who lives with his niece and her family.
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Addams Family Values
November 19, 1993Siblings Wednesday and Pugsley Addams will stop at nothing to get rid of Pubert, the new baby boy adored by parents Gomez and Morticia. Things go from bad to worse when the new “black widow” nanny, Debbie Jellinsky, launches her plan to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands.
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Grumpy Old Men
December 25, 1993For decades, next-door neighbors and former friends John and Max have feuded, trading insults and wicked pranks. When an attractive widow moves in nearby, their bad blood erupts into a high-stakes rivalry full of naughty jokes and adolescent hijinks.
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Son in Law
July 2, 1993Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota, and, when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named Crawl, who convinces the ambivalent Rebecca to stay in the city. When Thanksgiving break rolls around, Rebecca, no longer an innocent farm girl, invites Crawl back to South Dakota, where he pretends to be her fiancé.
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Home for the Holidays
November 2, 1995After losing her job, making out with her soon-to-be former boss, and finding out that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, Claudia Larson faces spending the holiday with her unhinged family.
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The House of Yes
October 10, 1997Jackie-O is anxiously awaiting the visit of her brother home for Thanksgiving, but isn’t expecting him to bring a friend — and she’s even more shocked to learn that this friend is his fiance. It soon becomes clear that her obsession with Jackie Kennedy is nothing compared to her obsession with her brother, and she isn’t the only member of the family with problems.
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The Ice Storm
February 5, 1997In the weekend after thanksgiving 1973 the Hood family is skidding out of control. Then an ice storm hits, the worst in a century.
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Pieces of April
October 17, 2003Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But when she discovers that her mother has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her place for Thanksgiving. While her father struggles to drive her family into the city, April — an inexperienced cook — runs into kitchen trouble and must ask a neighbor for help.
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The Humans
November 24, 2021Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter’s apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group’s deepest fears are laid bare.
How to watch these Thanksgiving greats from anywhere
If you’ll be away from home for Thanksgiving and can’t stream through your regular means, you can still watch, no matter where you are in the world, with a VPN. A VPN can be used on your phone, tablet, or computer and make you appear to be back home — even when you’re not — letting you stream from anywhere in the world, just as you would back home. A VPN is a safe and secure way to stay protected online while streaming your favorite sports, movies, and shows on the go.
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