Best Thanksgiving Family Movies
Okay!! Let’s start the scene: It’s the festival of Thanksgiving, and you and your family have finished your dinner and every last crumb of your favorite desserts. which means there is only one thing left to do: Watch one of the best Thanksgiving family movies of all time!
Here is the list of the best Thanksgiving family movies which you can watch with your family while having your favorite desserts.
| S.No | Movie Name | Release Year | Age Rating |
| 1. | A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving | 1973 | G |
| 2. | Holidate | 2020 | TV-MA |
| 3. | Dutch | 1991 | PG-13 |
| 4. | Friendsgiving | 2020 | R |
| 5. | Scent of a Woman | 1992 | R |
| 6. | Tower He | 1992 | PG-13 |
| 7. | You’ve Got Mail | 1998 | PG-13 |
| 8. | Home for the Holidays | 1995 | PG-13 |
| 9. | Free Birds | 2013 | PG |
Let us discuss the Best Thanksgiving Family Movies one by one:
A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
Peppermint Patty invites herself and her friends over to Charlie Brown’s for Thanksgiving, and with Linus, Snoopy, and Woodstock, he attempts to throw together a Thanksgiving dinner.
| Director | Bill Melendez and Phil Roman |
| IMDB Rating | 7.7/10 |
| Genre | Animation, Comedy |
| Release Year | 1973 |
| Distributor | CBS |
Holidate
Fed up with being single on holidays, two strangers agree to be each other’s platonic plus-ones all year long, only to catch real feelings along the way.
| Director | John Whitesell |
| IMDB Rating | 6.1/10 |
| Genre | Comedy, Romance |
| Release Year | 2020 |
| Distributor | Netflix |
Dutch
New Jersey drug dealer who makes moves on the street while facing a high-profile court case.
| Director | Peter Faiman |
| IMDB Rating | 6.5/10 |
| Genre | Comedy, Drama |
| Release Year | 1991 |
| Distributor | Twentieth Century Fox |
Friendsgiving
Molly and Abbey host a dysfunctional, chaotic, and comical Thanksgiving dinner with their crew of close friends.
| Director | Nicol Paone |
| IMDB Rating | 4.4/10 |
| Genre | Comedy, Drama |
| Release Year | 2020 |
| Distributor | Saban Films |
Scent of a Woman
Frank is a retired Lt. Col. in the US army. He is blind and impossible to get along with. Charlie is at school and is looking forward to going to college. To help pay for a trip home for Christmas, he agrees to look after Frank over Thanksgiving. Frank’s niece says this will be easy money, but she did not reckon on Frank spending his Thanksgiving in New York.
| Director | Martin Brest |
| IMDB Rating | 8.0/10 |
| Genre | Drama |
| Release Year | 1992 |
| Distributor | Universal Pictures |
Tower He
For more than 10 years, Josh Kovaks managed one of New York City’s most luxurious and well-secured residences. One of the condo’s most-notorious residents, Arthur Shaw, is currently under house arrest for the theft of more than $2 billion from his investors including Josh and his co-workers. Determined to reclaim the retirement funds Shaw stole from them, they turn to a petty crook named Slide to help them break into Shaw’s home.
| Director | Martin Brest |
| IMDB Rating | 8.0/10 |
| Genre | Drama |
| Release Year | 1992 |
| Distributor | Universal Pictures |
You’ve Got Mail
Joe Fox and independent bookshop owner, Kathleen Kelly fall in love with the anonymity of the Internet both blissfully unaware that he’s trying to put her out of business.
| Director | Nora Ephron |
| IMDB Rating | 6.7/10 |
| Genre | Drama, Comedy, Romance |
| Release Year | 1998 |
| Distributor | Warner Bros. |
Home for the Holidays
When her teenage daughter opts out of Thanksgiving, single mother Claudia Larson travels alone to her childhood home for an explosive holiday dinner with her dysfunctional family. Claudia quickly tires of her parents, her long-suffering sister, her snobby brother-in-law, and her nutty aunt. But the evening gets interesting when sparks fly between Claudia and her brother’s handsome friend Leo Fish.
| Director | Jodie Foster |
| IMDB Rating | 6.5/10 |
| Genre | Drama, Comedy, Romance |
| Release Year | 1995 |
| Distributor | Paramount Pictures |
Free Birds
Two turkeys from opposite sides of the tracks must put aside their differences and team up to travel back in time to change the course of history, and get Turkeys off the Thanksgiving menu for good.
| Director | Jimmy Hayward |
| IMDB Rating | 5.8/10 |
| Genre | Animation, Adventure, Comedy |
| Release Year | 2013 |
| 2Distributor | Relativity Media |