It won't take you long to think about the holiday'ish movies you've watched over and over – Trains, Planes, & Automobiles... Home Alone... Love Actually... A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving – but there are a few that you probably missed that are worth checking out.
These are our three favorite discoveries. Check out the trailers and, maybe, check out the full movie this
Home for the Holidays
Jodie Foster, Robert Downey Jr., Holly Hunter, Anne Bancroft ("Mrs. Robinson"), Claire Danes, etc., make this a gem you'll probably wish you'd found 30 years ago when it came out. Streamable on Paramount+.
An Old-Fashioned Thanksgiving
Yes, this is a Hallmark Channel movie, but it's not the cookie-cutter kind you may be thinking about. Steamable on Roku, Amazon Prime, Tubi and others.
Pieces of April
A pre-Tom Cruise Katie Holmes, Oliver Pratt, Patricia Clarkson, and – get this – Sean Hayes before he was THE Sean Hayes. Here's the synopsis:
Quirky and rebellious April Burns (Katie Holmes) 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 (Patricia Clarkson) has a fatal form of breast cancer, she invites the clan to her place for Thanksgiving. While her father (Oliver Platt) struggles to drive her family into the city, April – an inexperienced cook – runs into kitchen trouble and must ask a neighbor (Sean Hayes) for help.
Streamable on Tubi, Amazon Prime, and others
