10 Movies We Forgot Were About Thanksgiving

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There are plenty of choices in theaters right now, but none will have obvious or even subtle nods to Thanksgiving. If you need your cinema to reflect the holiday, check out these 10 movies we forgot were about thanksgiving.

These aren’t your run of the mill, A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving or even the National Lampoon version. But from comedy to drama and even action, these down low Thanksgiving movies will have you covered.

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Lost in the shuffle of hunting down Chiwetel Ejiofor’s villain character was the fact that John Singleton’s 2005 action drama Four Brothers was set during Thanksgiving.

Andy Garcia, Al Pacino, and Chris O'Donnell

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Scent Of A Woman featured one of the most awkward dinner scenes ever thanks to Al Pacino’s blind character having zero chill at the family table. Whoo-hah.

Before he was helping Mike sell Air Jordans, Mars Blackmon had to share Thanksgiving dinner with Nola Darling and the rest of her suitors in She’s Gotta Have It.

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Wednesday Addams dropped some jarring real talk about the myths behind Thanksgiving before she and the rest of the Chippewa tribe burned down a Pilgrim village in Addams’ Family Values.

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It was a less than stellar performance, but Adam Sandler played the roles of both Jack and Jill Sadelstein in 2011’s Jack and Jill. The annoying twin sister Jill decides to crash with Jack and fulfill a wish list from Thanksgiving through Hanukkah.

With an ensemble cast and a convoluted plot, it was easy to miss the Thanksgiving tie in of 2011’s Tower Heist. But nods to a Thanksgiving court date and the Macy’s Thanksgiving Day Parade were there for those who watched the movie.

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Do remember, it was Norman Osborn who first figured out Spider-Man’s true identity during a joint Thanksgiving dinner between The Parker and Osborn families. As for what happened next, you can always check out Spider-Man on Netflix.

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Blind prostitutes, closeted lesbianism and racial/religious insensitivity are all on display in the 2006 comedy, For Your Consideration. Just for kicks, the film-within-a-film concept is at work in the form of the film’s fictional movie being retitled as Home For Thanksgiving.

Liam Neeson, Diane Kruger, January Jones and Jaume Collet Serra

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With Liam Neeson once again beating down bad guys and taking names, the Thanksgiving mentions in Unknown are one of the few things that separate it from being a complete rip off of the Taken franchise.

Sylvester Stallone (as Rocky Balboa), Talia Shire

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Somehow, Rocky Balboa dealt with a partially detached retina, a pregnant wife and the wrath of Apollo Creed all in time to win the championship scheduled for Thanksgiving in Rocky II.