{"id":65532,"date":"2019-11-22T17:51:21","date_gmt":"2019-11-23T00:51:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ring-in-holidays-with-film-feasts\/"},"modified":"2019-11-23T00:51:21","modified_gmt":"2019-11-23T00:51:21","slug":"ring-in-holidays-with-film-feasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/ring-in-holidays-with-film-feasts\/","title":{"rendered":"Ring in holidays with film feasts"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><figure class=\"wp-block-image naviga-inline-image\"><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"https:\/\/imengine.public.prod.dur.navigacloud.com\/?uuid=3758b5b0-3edb-471c-bf75-478559c11c40&amp;function=cover&amp;type=preview&amp;source=false&amp;width=2000\" width=\"2000\" height=\"1117\" alt=\"In \u201cHome for the Holidays,\u201d an eccentric extended family members gathers for their annual Thanksgiving feast and bring with them their many problems and personal quirks.\" class=\"naviga-image\" loading=\"lazy\"><figcaption><span class=\"caption\">In \u201cHome for the Holidays,\u201d an eccentric extended family members gathers for their annual Thanksgiving feast and bring with them their many problems and personal quirks.<\/span><span class=\"credit\">Courtesy of IMDB<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><p>The holidays have arrived. For the next six weeks or so, people will be getting together; presents will be exchanged and meals will be eaten \u2013 most likely around a dining room table, where gloves tend to come off, too much alcohol results in loose lips, and words are exchanged and grudges established.<\/p>\n<p>Or, it can be lovely time.<\/p>\n<p>And when the dust settles and the tryptophan kicks in, it\u2019s time to switch on a movie and hibernate on the couch until after the new year.<\/p>\n<p>Here are some picks for your viewing pleasure. They range from the funny to the dramatic to the kid-friendly (You can\u2019t go wrong with Charlie Brown and Garfield), to the probably-not-anybody-friendly (ThanksKilling).<\/p>\n<p>Enjoy!<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vEguAZ0RqnQ\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_breakout_head1\">Home for the Holidays<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Rating:<\/em> PG-13<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Genre:<\/em> Comedy, drama, kids &amp; family<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Directed by:<\/em> Jodie Foster<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Written by:<\/em> W.D. Richter, Chris Radant<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Runtime:<\/em> 1 hr. 43 min.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer:<\/em> 63%<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Synopsis:<\/em> An eccentric extended family members gathers for their annual Thanksgiving feast and bring with them their many problems and personal quirks. Claudia flies from Chicago to Boston to visit her parents for the holidays, who immediately start treating her like a child.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/xfUU68kgqD4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_breakout_head1\">A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Rating:<\/em> Not rated<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Genre:<\/em> Animation, drama, kids &amp; family<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Directed by:<\/em> Bill Melendez, Phil Roman<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Written by:<\/em> Charles M. Schulz<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Runtime:<\/em> 25 min.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer:<\/em> 100%<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Synopsis:<\/em> Charlie Brown and the gang learn the true meaning of Thanksgiving after Peppermint Patty boldly arranges for everyone to celebrate the holiday at Charlie\u2019s house. The story originally aired on television and like the other animated Peanuts specials, features a toe-tapping, wistful score by Vince Guaraldi and his trio.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/Ua-MspPHTtI\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_breakout_head1\">The Big Chill <\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Rating:<\/em> R<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Genre:<\/em> Comedy, drama, musical &amp; performing arts<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Directed by:<\/em> Lawrence Kasdan<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Written by:<\/em> Barbara Benedek, Lawrence Kasdan<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Runtime:<\/em> 1 hr. 43 min.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer:<\/em> 68%<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Synopsis:<\/em> A group of seven former college friends gather for a weekend reunion at a South Carolina vacation home after the funeral of another of their college friends.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/VWGqGHMO294\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_breakout_head1\">Planes, Trains and Automobiles<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Rating:<\/em> R<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Genre:<\/em> Comedy<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Directed by:<\/em> John Hughes<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Written by:<\/em> John Hughes<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Runtime:<\/em> 1 hr. 32 min.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer:<\/em> 93%<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Synopsis:<\/em> A man must struggle to travel home for Thanksgiving with an obnoxious slob of a shower curtain ring salesman as his only companion.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/nPlg9U5YbY4\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_breakout_head1\">ThanksKilling<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Rating:<\/em> R<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Genre:<\/em> Comedy, horror, mystery &amp; suspense<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Directed by:<\/em> Jordan Downey<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Written by:<\/em> Jordan Downey, Kevin Stewart<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Runtime:<\/em> 1 hr. 10 min.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer:<\/em> Not available<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Synopsis:<\/em> While on their way home for Thanksgiving break, five college kids run \u201cafowl\u201d of a homicidal turkey that wants them dead. As the cursed bird hunts them down one by one, the survivors scramble to find a way to defeat the possessed creature. Will the bloodthirsty turkey make this their last Thanksgiving feast ever?<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/vxjqdzvFzGM\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_breakout_head1\">Garfield\u2019s Thanksgiving<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Rating:<\/em> Not rated<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Genre:<\/em> Animation, comedy, kids &amp; family, television<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Directed by:<\/em> Phil Roman<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Runtime:<\/em> 30 min.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer:<\/em> Not available<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Synopsis:<\/em> On Thanksgiving, according to Garfield, people \u201ccelebrate food by eating as much of it as possible. It\u2019s a tradition, I love tradition.\u201d But that tradition is history following a checkup from veterinarian Liz Wilson.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/yyYfXc0K_7U\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_breakout_head1\">Alice\u2019s Restaurant<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Rating:<\/em> R<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Genre:<\/em> Classics, comedy,science fiction &amp; fantasy<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Directed by:<\/em> Arthur Penn<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Written by:<\/em>  Venable Herndon, Arthur Penn, Venabel Herndon<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Runtime:<\/em> 1 hr. 51 min.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer:<\/em> 63%<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Synopsis:<\/em> This uneven film is based on Arlo Guthrie\u2019s popular song \u201cThe Massacre At Alice\u2019s Restaurant.\u201d Arlo, son of famous folksinger Woody Guthrie, wrote the almost 19-minute song after being arrested for littering when he threw out some food. He visits his dying father in the film, and Pete Seeger also makes an appearance. Arlo sings three songs including the title track, and Joni Mitchell\u2019s \u201cSongs To Aging Children\u201d is played during a funeral scene. Pat Quinn plays Alice, with James Broderick as her husband Ray. Arlo\u2019s criminal past is exposed when he is rejected for a tour in the U.S. Army because he is a \u201cdegenerate.\u201d<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video wp-block-embed-youtube naviga-video-embed\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\"><iframe loading=\"lazy\" width=\"560\" height=\"315\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/9m7C3aJAv2M\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe><\/div>\n<\/figure>\n<div class=\"naviga-element naviga-subheadline1\">Hannah and Her Sisters<\/div>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Rating:<\/em> PG-13<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Genre:<\/em> Comedy, drama, romance<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Directed by:<\/em> Woody Allen<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Written by:<\/em> Woody Allen<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Runtime:<\/em> 1 hr. 43 min.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Rotten Tomatoes Tomatometer:<\/em> 91%<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_body_text_rr_bold_leadin\">Synopsis:<\/em> A Woody Allen Manhattan mosaic, Hannah and Her Sisters concerns the lives, loves and infidelities among a tightly-knit artistic clan. Hannah regularly meets with her sisters Holly and Lee to discuss the week\u2019s events. It\u2019s what they don\u2019t always tell each other that forms the film\u2019s various subplots. Hannah is married to accountant and financial planner Elliot, who carries a torch for Lee, who in turn lives with pompous Soho artist Frederick. Meanwhile, Holly, a neurotic actress and eternal loser in love, dates TV producer Mickey, who used to be married to Hannah and spends most of the film convinced that he\u2019s about to die. The film begins and ends during the family\u2019s traditional Thanksgiving dinner.<\/p>\n<p><em class=\"mwc_shirttail\"><a href=\"mailto:katie@durangoherald.com\">katie@durangoherald.com<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>There\u2019s nothing better \u2013 or worse \u2013 than a holiday dinner<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":65533,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[],"tags":[1167,28,1107,29],"naviga_topic":[],"class_list":["post-65532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","tag-exclude-homepage-video","tag-headlines","tag-movies","tag-newsletter"],"acf":[],"author_name":"dh_admin","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=65532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/65532\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/65533"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=65532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=65532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=65532"},{"taxonomy":"naviga_topic","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/dh.durangoherald.com\/tj\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/naviga_topic?post=65532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}