Though Brokeback Mountain draws most of its rough-hewn romantic poetry from two cowboys embracing their passions against the backdrop of the Wyoming plains, one of its key confrontations takes place at Thanksgiving. ‘Brokeback Mountain’Īs anyone who’s ever gathered with relatives for Thanksgiving will tell you, family secrets flow as freely as Martinelli’s. Some make it easy, like A Charlie Brown Thanksgiving and Free Birds, but others make their connection to the holiday less obvious. All in all, Addams Family Values toes-the-line of screwball and satire rather well and makes this sequel to a movie no one asked for completely worth a rewatch and a conversation.Though Miracle on 34th Street takes place during the annual Macy’s Thanksgiving parade, it’s a yuletide classic all the same and even though it’s focused on one man’s plight to travel home for Thanksgiving, Planes, Trains and Automobiles has been embraced as a Christmas movie by many, perhaps due to its snowy setting and sentimental messages about being together with your family when it matters most.īut there are plenty of Thanksgiving movies out there, just waiting to be recognized as such. While the episode itself might get a bit hyperbolic about the movie’s “wokeness”, Blake and Josh hail the exceptional characters, perfectly weighted gallows humor, and oddly exceptional use of the Addams Family to make incisive class-centric commentary. Enlisting the help of Blake Collier, they set out to find an explanation for why this movie is so great, doesn’t feel dated, and also one of the more progressive comedies of the 1990’s. Leave it to Josh to pick a non-scary movie for October, but he tries his best by picking a horror-adjacent movie in the 1993 Barry Sonnenfeld movie, Addams Family Values. OctoJoshua Crabb Comedy, Fantasy, podcast, RWRewind 0
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