These Thanksgiving Movies Will Give You Even More to Be Thankful For (2024)

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: Travel stress is nobody's favorite part of Thanksgiving, but watching Steve Martin and John Candy as an odd-couple duo of hapless travelers trying desperately to get home for Turkey Day will help you laugh off your own struggles.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: Though the film doesn't take place over the holiday (it centers around 8 friends who come together for the funeral of a college buddy), it does take place in the fall and has plenty of ensemble-cast drama and long talks around kitchen tables that will feel perfectly in-tune for your Friendsgiving.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: While the whole movie (centered on a small bookshop owner and a mega-store mogul who unwittingly begin an email romance) has great foliage scenes and a crisp, autumnal vibe, the scene where Joe rushes to the front of Zabar's cash-only line to vainly save a work enemy (or so he thinks...) actually happens on Thanksgiving Day.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: Watching Woodstock and Snoopy pull apart a wishbone and eat a piece of pumpkin pie together. This classic Peanuts gang tale has been a must-watch for the holiday for over 50 years, and who are we to argue with that kind of staying power?

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: A more emotional holiday film, this movie follows a (Renée Zellweger) as she travels back home to spend time with her parents. While there, she finds out that her mother (Meryl Streep) is very sick and the family faces spending their last autumn and holiday season together.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: A prep school teen's (Chris O'Donnell) Thanksgiving weeks goes way off the rails when his job looking after a blind former army officer (Al Pacino) turns into a wild, bucket list-ticking adventure in NYC.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: Awkwardness that ensues when April (played by a young Katie Holmes) invites her mother and estranged family to her tiny NYC apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: The family, friends, and feasts in this star-studded Wes Anderson-directed animated adaptation of the Roald Dahl children's classic make it a great option for the whole family.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: Chaos ensues when family gets together, and secrets come out in this Jodie Foster-directed dramedy about a single mom (Holly Hunter) who gets unwillingly pulled into debacles and misunderstandings when she heads home for the holidays.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: While you may think of the everyone's favorite creepy, kooky family as Halloween fare, everyone needs to brush up on their Thanksgiving facts—the hilarious, iconic Thanksgiving play in this movie proves as much.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: It's hard to decide who's more relatable—Garfield, miserable at being put on a diet the day before Thanksgiving; or John, clueless as to how to actually prepare a Thanksgiving dinner, but desperate to impress his guest of honor in this animated favorite.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: Get a taste of four vastly different Thanksgivings from this quintessential 2000s flick, which showcases what the holiday can mean from family to family.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: The entire "fall in Manhattan" atmosphere will give you all of the Thanksgiving feels in this Richard Gere and Winona Ryder-starring flick about a playboy restaurateur who finally meets his match in a terminally ill young woman.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: An early winter storm, a wealthy suburb, bored teenagers sneaking booze and hooking up, and troubled adults realizing their lives are nothing like they thought: a recipe for a Thanksgiving classic.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: The trend of hosting a Friendsgiving seems to become more popular every year. This comedy starring Malin Åkerman and Kat Dennings is a little too relatable in its portrayal of how these gatherings are never as quaint as our Pinterest boards imagine them to be.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: You'll probably feel pretty good about your decision to forgo staying up late for Black Friday deals after watching Kevin James play an overzealous New Jersey mall cop facing a Black Friday heist.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: The story of this classic kicks off at the iconic Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade and carries on into Christmas making it a perfect Thanksgiving night watch.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: Another reason not to attend the Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade. This hilarious heist movie is all about the staff of a luxury apartment build who, after discovering that their pensions have been embezzled by a scheming resident plan to break in to his home and take their money—during the famous parade.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: Not everyone grows up, and that becomes increasingly apparent the more friends and family are around the dinner table in this Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau classic about a duo of lifelong frenemies.

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Quintessential Thanksgiving Factor: The essential autumn vibes in this bittersweet romance about a mismatched couple (Charlize Theron and Keanu Reeves) who agree to live together for the month of November.