// BEGIN editorial data var i = 0; var Ent_FiveTop_061120 = new Array(); Ent_FiveTop_061120.ID = "Ent_FiveTop_061120"; Ent_FiveTop_061120.ID_WB = 15769972; Ent_FiveTop_061120.sPubDate = "11/20/2006 7:26:09 PM GMT"; Ent_FiveTop_061120.navsectionID = "3032083" Ent_FiveTop_061120.appFmt = 2; Ent_FiveTop_061120.itemsPerPage = 5; Ent_FiveTop_061120.nTeaseW = 198; Ent_FiveTop_061120.nTeaseH = 198; Ent_FiveTop_061120.appWidth = 624; Ent_FiveTop_061120.appHeader = ""; Ent_FiveTop_061120.appFooter = "   By John Hartl"; Ent_FiveTop_061120.rowSpacer = "20"; Ent_FiveTop_061120.rowAlt = "F7F7F7"; Ent_FiveTop_061120.appNavStyle = 3; Ent_FiveTop_061120.appLayout = 1; Ent_FiveTop_061120.copyMargin = 9; Ent_FiveTop_061120.copyBorder = 0; Ent_FiveTop_061120.sBodyFont = "font-size:12px;"; Ent_FiveTop_061120[i++] = new Array("","","","http://msnbcmedia.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/061117/061117_5top_giant_1p.standard.jpg","","\"Giant\"", "", "", "", "", "right", "", "Warner Bros.", "119", "198", "1", "", "", "", ""); Ent_FiveTop_061120[i-1].body = "“Giant” (1956)
In George Stevens’ sprawling Texas epic, Elizabeth Taylor and Rock Hudson are getting on each other’s nerves, so they decide to split for the holidays. She takes the kids to her parents’ home, where the children become much too friendly with Pedro, a turkey who is transformed into the main event at the Thanksgiving dinner table. Once the kids realize they’re expected to eat their new pal, a serious bawling epidemic breaks out. Liz turns on some tears of her own when she reads a melancholy telegram from her husband — who’s back at their empty-looking Texas ranch, dining alone on his own overstuffed bird."; Ent_FiveTop_061120[i++] = new Array("","","","http://msnbcmedia2.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/061120/061120_5top_alices_11a.standard.jpg","","\"Alice' Restaurant\"", "", "", "", "", "right", "", "MGM", "119", "198", "1", "", "", "", ""); Ent_FiveTop_061120[i-1].body = " “Alice’s Restaurant” (1969)
It’s your typical mid-1960s hippie Thanksgiving celebration. Long-haired kids arrive on motorcycles, joints are passed and “Amazing Grace” is sung at a deconsecrated Massachusetts church that has been transformed into a notably undisciplined commune. After the big feast, the gentle hero, Arlo Guthrie, sets out to dump half a ton of party garbage and gets arrested for littering. This environmentally unfriendly act ultimately lands him a hit record, ambiguous notoriety, Woodstock credentials and a free pass out of the draft."; Ent_FiveTop_061120[i++] = new Array("","","","http://msnbcmedia4.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/061117/061117_5top_hannahSisters_1p.standard.jpg","","\"Hannah and Her Sisters\"", "", "", "", "", "right", "", "MGM", "119", "198", "1", "", "", "", ""); Ent_FiveTop_061120[i-1].body = "“Hannah and Her Sisters” (1986)
It begins with one Thanksgiving and ends with another. Both are presented with a familial warmth rare in Woody Allen comedy-dramas, though the narrator (Michael Caine) instantly brings a chill to the holiday by announcing his intention of pursuing the beautiful sister (Barbara Hershey) of his taken-for-granted wife (Mia Farrow). In the Thanksgiving celebration that ends the film, a kind of order has been restored — Caine and Hershey have connected and split; Caine and Farrow are still together — while another sister (Dianne Wiest) is pregnant with the Allen character’s child."; Ent_FiveTop_061120[i++] = new Array("","","","http://msnbcmedia3.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/061117/061117_5top_houseofyes_1p.standard.jpg","","\"House of Yes\"", "", "", "", "", "right", "", "Miramax", "119", "198", "1", "", "", "", ""); Ent_FiveTop_061120[i-1].body = " “The House of Yes” (1997)
Perhaps the most gothic of Thanksgiving movies, Mark Waters’ darkly comic adaptation of Wendy MacLeod’s long-running play deals with an incestuous family that finds itself still obsessed with the Kennedy assassination 20 years after Nov. 22, 1963. During their 1983 Turkey Day reunion, Parker Posey, whose character calls herself Jackie-O, replays the murder scene with her twin brother, Marty (Josh Hamilton), who has been trying (but not quite hard enough) to extricate himself from her destructive fantasies. Genevieve Bujold, as their absurdly neurotic mother, seems to have wandered in from an Addams Family party next door."; Ent_FiveTop_061120[i++] = new Array("","","","http://msnbcmedia1.msn.com/j/msnbc/Components/Photos/061117/061117_5top_brokeback_1p.standard.jpg","","\"Brokeback Mountain\"", "", "", "", "", "right", "", "Focus Features", "119", "198", "1", "", "", "", ""); Ent_FiveTop_061120[i-1].body = "“Brokeback Mountain” (2005)
Jack Twist and Ennis Del Mar may be thinking only of each other and their idyllic past as teenage lovers, but they spend Thankgiving fighting with cantankerous relatives. Jack’s father-in-law rudely insists on watching football during dinner, declaring that this will help make a man of his grandson. While Ennis and his ex-wife are washing dishes, she confronts him for the first time with evidence that he and Jack are more than fishing buddies. Both scenes end abruptly. Ennis stomps out of the house and starts a fight with a stranger. Jack turns off the television, insults his father-in-law, and insists that he recognize the work his daughter did to prepare the turkey. For once in their tired marriage, she looks rather pleased. "; // END editorial data