Happy Thanksgiving!

I want to wish each and everyone of you a very safe and Happy Thanksgiving. I have no plans for today but something later this weekend. I’m probably going to watch the parade and then Planes Trains and Automobiles.

If you’re not a fan of football but want to watch something else, you can always watch Eddie Murphy’s Boomerang where the late John Witherspoon plays the father of David Allen Grier’s character. They bring chitlins for Thanksgiving and his parents end up having sex in the bathroom.

There’s also Pauly Shore’s Son in Law which is quite possibly the best thing Shore has done beside Encino Man. Yet it was all downhill from there. The movie is dated nowadays a little, but give Disney credit for having openly gay characters in 1993. It also shows how women even in the early 1990s were still expected to just marry their high school boyfriends after going to college. I’m sure many young women have watch the scene where her cheating boyfriend played by Dan Gauthier tries to propose marriage to her in front of dozens of people while her family expects her to say “yes.”

But if you’re looking for something a little more freaky, there’s Eli Roth’s Thanksgiving which is actually pretty good despite being an Eli Roth movie. If you blink, you’ll miss a cameo by Canadian actress Lynne Griffin toward the beginning of the movie. Griffin appeared in Bob Clark’s Black Christmas from 1974 and also appeared alongside Rick Moranis and Dave Thomas in Doug and Bob McKenzie’s Strange Brew.

There’s also the 1986 episode “Thanksgiving” of the TV anthology Amazing Stories, which was produced by Steven Spielberg. Even though most of the episodes went for a more gentile approach to the supernatural and science fiction, this episode is famous for its ending which I won’t give away. It features just David Carradine as a greedy mean-spirited man name Calvin and Kyra Sedgwick as his simple-minded stepdaughter, Dora, who live out in a desert wasteland.

They accidentally discover “hole people” in a well on their property that reward them with gold for gifts when a flashlight calls down the hole. But Dora discovers they want food more than anything but Calvin believes he can take the gold by force. The episode ran during the series’ second season. It might be hard to find but it’s currently available on DailyMotion at https://www.dailymotion.com/video/x6hqgxz

Once again, thanks for reading and subscribing. Have a great day and a great weekend!