The big meal is done, and conversations are running out, or all of your guests have gone home. Now what? After the holiday clean-up is done, there really isn’t much more to do with the day but relax. And it’s the perfect time to put on a holiday movie to enjoy.
Thanksgiving isn’t a huge movie theme, but there are a few out there. Some are kid-friendly and some – really aren’t. But there are still some fun options for Thanksgiving. If you’re not heading out to check out the new holiday movie offerings, these might be great options to pull up on your streaming networks!
Free Birds (2013)
Pardoned by the president, a lucky turkey (Owen Wilson) named Reggie gets to live a carefree lifestyle, until fellow fowl Jake (Woody Harrelson) recruits him for a history-changing mission. Jake and Reggie travel back in time to the year 1621, just before the first Thanksgiving. The plan: Prevent all turkeys from ever becoming holiday dinners. Unfortunately, the two birds encounter colonist Myles Standish (Colm Meaney), out to capture feathered friends for all the hungry Pilgrims.
Available to watch on the Amazon for Free
Addam Family Values (1993)
It’s love at first fright when Gomez (Raul Julia) and Morticia (Anjelica Huston) welcome a new addition to the Addams household — Pubert, their soft, cuddly, mustachioed baby boy. As Fester (Christopher Lloyd) falls hard for voluptuous nanny Debbie Jilinksy (Joan Cusack), Wednesday (Christina Ricci) and Pugsley (Jimmy Workman) discover she’s a black-widow murderess who plans to add Fester to her collection of dead husbands. The family’s future grows even bleaker when the no-good nanny marries Fester and has the kids shipped off to summer camp. But Wednesday still has a Thing or two up her sleeve… With gags and ghouls galore, Addams Family Values is “screamingly funny!” (Jeff Craig, Sixty Second Preview) Featuring: Anjelica Huston, Raul Julia, Christopher Lloyd, Joan Cusack, Christina Ricci, Carol Kane, Jimmy Workman, Kaitlyn Hooper, Carel Struycken, David Krumholtz, Peter MacNicol, Christine Baranski
Available to watch on Paramount+, Hulu or Amazon
Holidate (2020)
Sloane (Emma Roberts) and Jackson (Luke Bracey) hate the holidays. They constantly find themselves single, sitting at the kids table, or stuck with awkward dates. But when these two strangers meet during one particularly bad Christmas, they make a pact to be each other’s “holidate” for every festive occasion throughout the next year. With a mutual disdain for the holidays, and assuring themselves that they have no romantic interest in the other, they become each other’s perfect plus-one which leads to some hilarious and provocative hijinks. However, as a year of absurd celebrations come to an end, Sloane and Jackson find that sharing everything they hate may just prove to be something they unexpectedly love.
Watch on Netflix
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving (1973)
Peppermint Patty invites everyone to Charlie Brown’s for Thanksgiving, even though he’s going to see his grandmother. Snoopy decides to cook his own version of a Thanksgiving meal with help from his friends.
Friendsgiving (2020)
Molly and Abbey host a dysfunctional, chaotic, and comical Thanksgiving dinner with their crew of close friends.
Watch on Hulu or Rent on Amazon
Thanksgiving (2023)
A mysterious masked maniac terrorises residents of Plymouth, Massachusetts, one year after a Black Friday riot ended in tragedy. Picking off victims one by one, the seemingly random revenge killings soon become part of a larger, sinister plan.
Watch on Netflix or Rent on Amazon