For a holiday that’s all about family, football and eating yourself into a coma, Thanksgiving gets short shrift. Once the pumpkins hit the bins and the calendar flips over to November, thoughts turn not to turkey and decorative gourds but Mariah Carey and peppermint-scented candles. Thanksgiving is effectively the speed bump on the road to Christmas. So it is no surprise that Thanksgiving movies are hard to come by.

But that doesn’t mean there aren’t a few Turkey Day classics out there worthy of annual viewings – movies that, like the Christmas flicks we all know and love, say something about what the holiday represents, at least in the contemporary, slightly ahistorical sense.

What makes a great Thanksgiving movie?

As noted, Thanksgiving is predominantly a holiday about family together

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