Perhaps your family is well-adjusted, open-minded, and chill, and your holiday gatherings are an unalloyed joy.
For the rest of us, its complicatedwhich isnt to say bad, necessarily.
But also not, ya know,good.
Here are 21 Thanksgiving movies about dysfunctional families that make me feel better about my own.
Whats Cooking?
Alas.The Ice Stormisn’t streaming but you canrent it on Prime Video.
Addams Family Values(1993)
Say what you like about the Addams family (go ahead!
They WILL NOT care.
says the studio, and the movie becomesHome for Thanksgiving.)
The cast, meanwhile, begins preening and jockeying for awards-season attention in increasingly undignified ways.
Because what could be less stressful?
It’s positively tame compared to some holiday gatherings.
Which, of course, drove Terry to a murderous rage that saw him kill an unrelated necking teenager.
Todd has escaped from the asylum with revenge on his mind.
Thus do the two brothers spend a very bloody Thanksgiving holiday circling one another.
Another feel-bad holiday classic.Prisonersisstreaming on Max, or you canrent it on Prime Video.
Its broad, yes, but also surprisingly on point.you might streamThe Oathon Kanopy orrent it on Prime Video.
Rocky(1976)
For some, the holidays just another day.
As Rocky says to Adrian: To you its Thanksgiving, to me its Thursday.
In the memorable Thanksgiving moment, trainer Paulie belittles his sister and the turkey that shes struggled to cook.
