{"id":24946,"date":"2016-11-21T07:05:05","date_gmt":"2016-11-21T14:05:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/?p=24946"},"modified":"2016-11-21T07:05:05","modified_gmt":"2016-11-21T14:05:05","slug":"five-must-see-movies-over-thanksgiving-weekend","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mymerrychristmas.com\/x\/five-must-see-movies-over-thanksgiving-weekend\/","title":{"rendered":"Five Must See Movies Over Thanksgiving Weekend"},"content":{"rendered":"

Thanksgiving<\/a> represents a lot of traditions in American culture. Some enjoy the parade, others get into the football and some are all about the food. For many, it is a simple day of being together and playing games. <\/p>\n

Thanksgiving<\/a>, more than any other holiday, really is a true holiday. Everything stops for something different. <\/p>\n

Thanksgiving<\/a> is also traditionally a time set aside to kick off the Christmas<\/a> season. <\/p>\n

Many put up or cut down their Christmas<\/a> tree on Thanksgiving<\/a> weekend. Most have their Christmas<\/a> lights<\/a> hung and many use Thanksgiving<\/a> night as their time for turning them all on.
\nBy Thanksgiving<\/a> evening the Christmas<\/a> music is heard without apologies everywhere. <\/p>\n

Part of our culture in celebrating Christmas<\/a> is the watching of Christmas<\/a> movies \u2013 many of them old and many of them seen over and over again through-out the year.<\/p>\n

There are so many must-see movies of Christmas<\/a> that it indeed takes a month between Thanksgiving<\/a> and Christmas<\/a> to watch them all. For those that pursue this path, there is an order of sorts to Christmas<\/a> movie watching as the season kicks off over Thanksgiving<\/a> weekend. <\/p>\n

You have ease into it. You need movies that aren\u2019t really about Christmas<\/a> but don\u2019t focus squarely on Thanksgiving<\/a> either. It is all about transitioning from one festive moment to the next in a way that makes the season last long. <\/p>\n

Here are the top five movies we recommend over Thanksgiving<\/a> to ease your way into the season:<\/p>\n

1. Planes, Trains and Automobiles<\/strong> \u2013 The is the #1 Thanksgiving<\/a> movie of all time and it really isn\u2019t about Thanksgiving<\/a>. Steve Martin plays an uptight executive fighting his way home from a business trip on the day before Thanksgiving<\/a>. John Candy is likewise in transit on a busy travel weekend that gets snarled due to weather. Both Martin and Candy are headed for Chicago \u2013 and neither can get there by plane, trains or automobile. They come together and fall apart on an unforgettable journey full of laughs, insults, and tear jerk moments. <\/p>\n