Home for the Holidays

I’ll be spending Thanksgiving in Detroit again this year — something I’ve worked hard to be able to do each year since moving to New York. Some traditions have changed — especially since the passing of my grandmother — but it’s still nice to spend time with my mother’s family, especially over the holidays.

I grow nostalgic during the transition from summer to fall. To help get me through, I pilfer through a series of movies that I associate with this season only because there’s a certain coziness to them:

1. Planes, Trains, and Automobiles
2. The Great Outdoors
3. Home for the Holidays
4. The Holiday
5. Love Actually
6. Home Alone and Home Alone 2
7. The Addam’s Family
8. Problem Child and Problem Child 2
9. Harry Potter and the Sorcerer’s Stone
10. Julie and Julia
11. Something’s Gotta Give
12. It’s Complicated
13. Manhattan
14. It Runs in the Family
15. French Kiss
16. In Her Shoes
17. The Odd Couple
18. National Lampoon’s European Vacation
19. Curly Sue
20. Father of the Bride (the Steve Martin version)