Below are 10 suggestions for movies to watch over the Thanksgiving
weekend along with my brilliantly compelling reasons for doing so.



Adjust your Netflix queue accordingly.








Movie
Why


Groundhog Day
Because you are not a slave to the calendar.



The Shining
Psychosis and homicide aside, it's nice to see a family
spending time together.


The Blues Brothers
After fighting the holiday travel traffic, the car chases* are
quite cathartic.



Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory
Give the kids a reason to fear sweets = more pie for you.


Close Encounters of the Third Kind
Watch Richard Dreyfuss demonstrate proper mashed potato
sculpting technique.


Waterworld
It wouldn't be Thanksgiving without a turkey.



Tom Jones
You'll feel significantly less awkward about your own family
dinner.


The Matrix
Watching Keanu chow down on a big bowl of “single-celled
protein combined with synthetic aminos, vitamins, and minerals”
will make you feel a lot better about yet another day of
leftovers.


It's a Mad Mad Mad Mad World
It works equally well as either preparation for or
justification against participating in the Black Friday sales.



A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving
It simply wouldn't be Thanksgiving otherwise.






 


Today's lesson: Making lists is fun.



Next: Probably not another list. Probably.

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*Not enough? Check out Ronin . Thirty minutes of plot, an hour and a half of car chases. Bless you Mr. Mamet. Bless you, sir.