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Tag: Thanksgiving

Posted on December 14, 2023November 10, 2024

Pieces of April (2003)

April wants to reconcile with her family but everything goes wrong while preparing a Thanksgiving dinner for them.

Posted on November 20, 2016November 10, 2024

What’s Cooking? (2000)

Check out several great Thanksgiving movies! Click on this image to read my entire review.

Posted on November 20, 2016November 20, 2016

Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

A Broadway talent agent handles small time acts is entangled with a mobster’s widow while grooming a lecherous singer for the big time, both of whom betray him.

Posted on November 20, 2016November 10, 2024

AVALON    (1990)

A large Baltimore immigrant family gathers annually for Thanksgiving, with the grandfather telling stories-until TV & moves to the suburbs, as well as a feud, loosen family ties.

Posted on February 20, 2015February 20, 2015

CRIMES and MISDEMEANORS (1989)

A man gets away with a crime, killing his mistress, & a filmmaker loses the girl & his belief in a moral universe in a tale questioning morality & a just God.

Posted on September 27, 2014September 28, 2014

Pieces of April (2003)

On Thanksgiving April wants to reconcile with her estranged family, but her oven breaks down, her lover is away on an errand & she has difficulty finding another one in her apartment building.

Posted on May 18, 2014May 18, 2015

Broadway Danny Rose (1984)

A talent agent considered a loser cares for all of his acts, & when betrayed by a jaded widow, reconciles at a bizarre Thanksgiving dinner.

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