{"id":16320,"date":"2024-11-26T08:36:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-26T16:36:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/?p=16320"},"modified":"2024-12-05T09:54:51","modified_gmt":"2024-12-05T17:54:51","slug":"dysfunctional-thanksgiving-dinner-movie-scenes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/atomtickets.com\/movie-news\/dysfunctional-thanksgiving-dinner-movie-scenes\/","title":{"rendered":"The Most Dysfunctional Thanksgiving Dinner Scenes In Movies"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>Ah, the holidays. A time for laughter. A time for togetherness. A time for family dysfunction and long-simmering resentments to come to the surface. A time for you to gossip about the boomers in the family with your siblings and cousins, and for everyone to groan every time THAT uncle opens his mouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>While most Thanksgiving dinners don&#8217;t end in actual murder, Hollywood has a long history of putting awkward family dinner scenes on the big screen in everything from comedy to drama. To celebrate Thanksgiving in the U.S. and uncomfortable family get-togethers all around the world, we&#8217;ve put together our list of favorite dysfunctional Thanksgiving dinner scenes. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">1. Spider-Man (2002)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Thanksgiving Dinner | Spider-Man | Voyage\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/jYL9aKsb4ro?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>One of the most nerve-wracking things is meeting your boyfriend&#8217;s or girlfriend&#8217;s parents for the first time. Hopefully, it goes well. But occasionally, the parents in question are slowly unraveling as their mind is being taken over by a villainous alter-ego and they end up being shockingly cruel, as was the case with Norman Osborn in the Thanksgiving scene in Sam Raimi&#8217;s <em>Spider-Man<\/em>. Talk about awkward. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">2. Addams Family Values (1993)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-4-3 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Addams Family Thanksgiving Turkey day song full scene\" width=\"1080\" height=\"810\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/rVQqQuOO9yQ?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Okay, so it&#8217;s not technically a Thanksgiving dinner scene, but Thanksgiving celebrations have virtually never been as disastrous or dysfunctional as this scene from the <em>Addams Family<\/em> sequel. If you&#8217;ve ever seen the GIF of a young Christina Ricci in a Native American headband with the text &#8220;Chaos. Panic. Disorder. My work here is done,&#8221; this is the scene that comes from. Enough said. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">3. Home For The Holidays (1995)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Home for the Holidays: The Turkey\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/egWFWloosog?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>An extremely baby-faced pre-career comeback Robert Downey, Jr. presides over what is perhaps the worst turkey carving job ever in movie history in <em>Home for the Holidays<\/em>. In the pressure to create a perfect holiday memory, everyone just ends up getting way too stressed out. It&#8217;s simply not a Hollywood Thanksgiving scene unless someone ends up crying. Bless.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">4. Across The Universe (2007)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Thanksgiving with Jude - Jim Sturgess Online\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/5JLqVCdbLWU?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Oh, boy. Is there anything like leaving the nest, finding yourself, feeling like an adult&#8230;and then coming home for Thanksgiving to immediately feel like you&#8217;re 15 years old again? Dad complaining about kids these days, mom criticizing your hair and how you dress, at least one rebellious child dropping a bomb on the family and one poor schmuck caught in the middle. What a time to be alive. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">5. Who Made The Potato Salad? (2006)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"who made the potatoe salad\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/c6GUltF4FUM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>You rarely see Thanksgiving family dinners come more R-rated than this one. Every woman in a family (and more than a few men) pride themselves on &#8220;their&#8221; dish, the one they think they make better than anybody. At least, that is, until a drunk uncle sets them straight and explains how much their cooking actually sucks. I was once at Thanksgiving dinner with the family of a friend and it almost came to blows for this reason. Rule #1 of Thanksgiving dishes, if you can&#8217;t say something nice, don&#8217;t say anything at all.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">6. Scary Movie 2 (2001)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Turkey Scene - Scary Movie 2\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/HcpjP8vHLKY?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Thanks to this movie and this scene in particular, an entire generation of people questioned whether they&#8217;d ever eat turkey and mashed potatoes again. It&#8217;s that gross. And that&#8217;s it. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">7.The Gold Rush (1925)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Charlie Chaplin eats his shoe for Thanksgiving - The Gold Rush (1942 version)\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/92kcJeOcOTM?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture; web-share\" referrerpolicy=\"strict-origin-when-cross-origin\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>Who says anyone has to talk to make a Thanksgiving dinner a memorably messed-up one? Charlie Chaplin accomplished that way back in the silent era of Hollywood thanks to his preternatural gift for physical comedy and pantomime as he boils and eats a leather shoe (which, by the way, was made of black licorice). Just think of that the next time you&#8217;re forced to eat your Aunt Helen&#8217;s dry turkey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\">8. Literally All Of &#8216;ThanksKilling&#8217; (2009)<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed-youtube wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-youtube wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"ThanksKilling Scene - Turkie Wears The Sheriff&#039;s Face\" width=\"1080\" height=\"608\" src=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/embed\/37hBgNQvEE8?feature=oembed\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"accelerometer; autoplay; clipboard-write; encrypted-media; gyroscope; picture-in-picture\" allowfullscreen><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n\n<p>There are dozens of Christmas horror films, but very few Thanksgiving horror films. And none as infamous as the <em>ThanksKilling<\/em> series, in which a murderous turkey, cleverly named Turkie, stalks and kills college students over Thanksgiving break. It&#8217;s not clear which is worse: Being killed by a turkey, or being killed by a low-budget turkey with lines as bad as his. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Ah, the holidays. A time for laughter. A time for togetherness. A time for family dysfunction and long-simmering resentments to come to the surface. A time for you to gossip about the boomers in the family with your siblings and cousins, and for everyone to groan every time THAT uncle opens his mouth. 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