A white collar stiff is on a grueling road trip home to join his family for Thanksgiving and his patience is tested every step of the way by his traveling companion: The bumbling oaf who stole his taxi and set the journey in motion.
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The Bootleg Files – B.C.: The First Thanksgiving
BOOTLEG FILES 887: “B.C.: The First Thanksgiving” (1973 animated television special).
LAST SEEN: On YouTube.
AMERICAN HOME VIDEO: On a VHS video release.
REASON FOR BOOTLEG STATUS: It fell through the cracks.
CHANCES OF SEEING A COMMERCIAL DVD RELEASE: Probably not.
The transition from newspaper comic strip to film or television production is not an easy journey. For every “Popeye the Sailor” or “Peanuts” that seamlessly moved from the funny pages to the screen, there are too many comic strips that tried and failed to make the jump.
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This Thanksgiving, Stay Home and Watch These Five Great Movies about Food
2020’s been twelve months of pure chaos, but hopefully you can find some peace in viewing some great movies. For Thanksgiving while you’re chomping down on turkey, or tofurkey, or turducken, or whatever horrifying facsimile of turkey that you can concoct, be sure to stay home, and check out these five great movies about food.
You Have to See This! Pieces of April (2003)
Katie Holmes was always prone to playing more glamorous and squeaky clean roles back in 2003, but for “Pieces of April” she’s the center of what is a unique Thanksgiving set film. Peter Hedges film is all at once a funny, heartbreaking, and thought provoking film. It’s a film about redemption, and ultimately about forgiveness. Can we forgive someone who has hurt us over and over? Can we forgive someone who almost went out of our way to hurt us in the past? Can we forgive ourselves for the heinous things we’ve done in the past to our loved ones, if we work hard at redemption?