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Thanksgiving is a wonderful time to get together with family, feast to our heart's content, and sit around in front of the TV. Regrettably, some of the most interesting Thanksgiving movies—including Planes, Trains & Automobiles, Avalon, and Broadway Danny Rose (with its chase scene set in a warehouse full of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade floats—suddenly expired from streaming in the weeks before Thanksgiving. But we still found a tasty collection of Thanksgiving movies, food movies, and even one huge turkey (i.e., a notorious box office flop). Let us be thankful for family, friends, freedom, and streaming.
Deadfall (Netflix)
★★★☆☆
Austrian director Stefan Ruzowitzky won an Oscar for his 2007 Holocaust drama, The Counterfeiters, but Deadfall (2012) is nothing like it. It's a refreshingly effective pulp drama that relies on powerful family relationships, and uses the chilly, snowy terrain of Quebec (where it was filmed) to separate characters and to bring them closer together. On Thanksgiving, a brother and sister team, Addison (Eric Bana) and Liza (Olivia Wilde), escape from a successful casino heist and head into a brutal snowstorm. After an auto accident, and after Addison kills a cop, they separate and try to make a run for it through the freezing woods. Liza meets an ex-boxer, Jay (Charlie Hunnam), who has just served a prison sentence for killing a man in the ring, and tries to get herself invited to his parents' home for Thanksgiving. But more violence is in store. Sissy Spacek and Kris Kristofferson play Jay's parents, and Kate Mara is a scrappy cop tracking the villains.
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