What’s better to start off the national holiday of Thanksgiving than a lineup of awesome, homey movies?

1) Planes, Trains, and Automobiles

This movie expresses the importance of family and being at home for Thanksgiving. This great American comedy, filmed in 1987, stars Steve Martin, playing Neal Page, and John Candy, playing Del Griffith.

2) A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving

This movie shows the importance of friendship through the party of the character, Peppermint Patty. This film stars your family favorite Charlie brown, voiced by Todd Barbee.

3) Home for the Holiday

Claudia Larson is a single mom who has just been fired from her job as an art restorer due to budget cuts. She flies from Chicago to spend Thanksgiving at the Baltimore home of her parents. This is a 1995 comedy-drama, starring Holly Hunter, and Robert Downey Jr.

4) Dutch

Working man Dutch is dating the divorced Natalie, and he offers to drive her stuffy 13-year-old, Doyle, from his private school in Atlanta to his mother’s home in Chicago for Thanksgiving. This movie stars Ed O’Neill, JoBeth Williams, and Ethan Randall.

5. Free Birds

This movie is perfect for a family, best for children. Pardoned by the president, a lucky turkey named Reggie gets to live a carefree lifestyle until fellow fowl Jake recruits him for a history-changing mission. Jake and Reggie travel back in time to the year 1621, just before the first Thanksgiving. This movie stars Owen Wilson and Woody Harrelson.

6. What’s Cooking?

You are invited to a tasty Thanksgiving dinner that will all at once transport you to four different worlds and take you home again. On the menu this November are turkey, sweet potatoes, and pumpkin pie – but also tamales, spring rolls, kugel, mac & cheese, love, betrayal, sibling rivalry, prejudice, politics, uninvited guests, unexpected accidents, outrageous conversations – and all the other succulent and spicy surprises that arise when modern families come together for an annual meal. This movie stars Mercedes Ruehl and Victor Rivers. 

7. Son in Law

Country girl Rebecca has spent most of her life on a farm in South Dakota; and when she goes away to college in Los Angeles, Rebecca immediately feels out of place in the daunting urban setting. She is befriended by a savvy party animal named Crawl, who convinces the ambivalent Rebecca to stay in the city. When Thanksgiving break rolls around, Rebecca, no longer an innocent farm girl, invites Crawl back to South Dakota, where he pretends to be her fiancé. This movie stars Pauly Shore and Carla Gugino.