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Where Are All the Thanksgiving Pop-Culture Classics?

The American holiday has long been overshadowed by Christmas when it comes to widely beloved films, TV specials, and songs.
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Back in 2012, made the case that Hollywood will drum up an ensemble film about any holiday. In one episode, a lovelorn Emma Stone for the fake romantic comedy , “In the words of Martin Luther King, I just gotta ” The show was parodying a crop of movies from the late director Garry Marshall that attempted to imbue smaller American holidays with unearned sentimentality: in 2010 andin 2011 (this year brought … ). The excesses of the holiday-movie industrial complex are especially apparent when you consider how few classic films have been made about Thanksgiving. In fact, there isn’t much of

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