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# The Holiday Movies You Missed
- URL: https://www.smartseniordaily.com/the-holiday-movies-you-missed/
- Published: 2025-11-25T19:30:15.000Z
- Updated: 2025-11-25T19:30:14.000Z
- Description: One of these will surely hit the mark
- Author: Smart Senior Daily Staff
- Tags: Entertainment, Movies, Holidays

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**