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Thanksgiving on the big and small screen

Let's shine a light on the sometimes overlooked holiday between Halloween and Christmas: Thanksgiving! Check out these new and classic movies and TV shows on Thanksgiving. Enjoy!

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  • Erik Blake has gathered three generations of his Pennsylvania family to celebrate Thanksgiving at his daughter's apartment in lower Manhattan. As darkness falls outside and eerie things start to go bump in the night, the group's deepest fears are…
    DVD, 2022[Santa Monica, California] : Lionsgate, [2022] — DVD 791.43 HUMANS
  • Plans for a quiet Thanksgiving between two friends go up in smoke when their party is crashed by a comically chaotic group of friends, lovers, and relatives.
    DVD, 2020Santa Monica, California : Lionsgate, [2020] — DVD 791.43 FRIENDSGIVING
  • An unexpected Thanksgiving reunion brings out the worst in a dysfunctional California family in this darkly comic drama from writer/director Will Slocombe (Crime Fiction). As Poppy (Peter Bogdanovich), his two youngest children (Ashton Holmes and…
    DVD, 2014[Place of publication not identified] : [Publisher not identified], [2014?] — DVD 791.43 COLD
  • Claudia has just lost her job, learned that her daughter plans to spend Thanksgiving with her boyfriend, and dreads returning home to her own family for the holiday weekend.
    DVD, 2001Santa Monica, CA : MGM Home Entertainment, 2001, c1995. — DVD 791.43 HOME
  • Steve Martin and John Candy star in John Hughes' classic tale of holiday travel gone awry.
    DVD, 2018Hollywood, California : Paramount Pictures, [2018] — DVD 791.43 PLANES
  • Newly-divorced psychiatrist Frasier Crane finds himself host of his own call-in radio advice show. When he's not dealing with the problems of his troubled listeners, he's embroiled in skirmishes at home with his retired police detective father, his…
    DVD, 2005Hollywood, Calif. : Paramount Home Entertainment, c2005. — DVD 791.45 FRASIER
  • Richard Thomas plays the key role of John-Boy Walton, a youth on the verge of manhood during the Great Depression and a fledgling writer whose observations are filled with the growing-up lessons and love he receives from his family. The…
    DVD, 2005Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2005] — DVD 791.45 WALTONS
  • Ned Dorsey is a pompous advertising executive who needs a wife to get promoted. Stacey Colbert is a ditsy freelance writer desperate to move away from her parents. So what happens one week after these two strangers meet? They become in-name-only…
    DVD, 2005Culver City, Calif. : Sony Pictures Home Entertainment, 2005. — DVD 791.45 NED
  • Charlie Harper is a bachelor in paradise, complete with Malibu beach house, overpaid job and a very active dating life. Then his uptight brother Alan, in the throes of a divorce, moves in, bringing his 10-year-old son Jake with him. Together they…
    DVD, 2007Burbank, CA : Distributed by Warner Home Video, [2007] — DVD 791.45 TWO
  • One of the greatest TV dramas of all time continues with 13 gripping fourth season episodes of the critically acclaimed series. Small-town life in Dillon has changed irrevocably with the dramatic split of the school district. Coach Taylor finds…
    DVD, 2010Universal City, CA : Universal Studios Home Entertainment, c2010. — DVD 791.45 FRIDAY
  • Third season starts in Paris, where Mike and Molly are getting ready to leave their honeymoon and embark on their journey as a married couple. Adjusting to their new lives at home won't be easy, since they will be living with Molly's overindulgent…
    DVD, 2013[United States] : Warner Home Video, [2013] — DVD 791.45 MIKE
  • A drama about a multi-generational family of cops dedicated to New York City law enforcement. Frank Reagan is the New York Police Commissioner and heads both the police force and the Reagan brood. He runs his department as diplomatically as he runs…
    DVD, 2012Hollywood, CA : CBS DVD : Paramount, ©2012. — DVD 791.43 BLUE