Friendsgiving

A charming approach to a traditional holiday

Movies Comedy Drama
95 min     4.6     2020     USA

Overview

The people of the United States have several favorite holidays. Among them is Thanksgiving Day. The heroes of Friendsgiving are looking forward to this bright day. Molly and Abby decide to gather their best friends at the table and have dinner together on occasion. The event will definitely remain in the memory of the guests for many months or even years. The evening will turn from an ordinary feast into a series of comical, chaotic, funny, cheerful events. The most important thing is not to get lost in this chaos and not to forget the reason why everyone gathered.

While there are tons of movies about Christmas, Thanksgiving does not receive so much attention in the cinema at all. The new movie Friendsgiving has fortunately joined the ranks of other movies that tell us about this fantastic holiday. It primarily focuses on how millennials want to spend Thanksgiving more with their friends than family because of high political tensions.

Molly (Malin Akerman), a single recently-divorced mother and actress, is spending the first holiday with her baby. She invited her best friend Abby (Kat Dennings) to join her as Abby is still sad about her recent breakup. A small get-together that was supposed to include the two of them got out of control as more and more people joined them. For instance, their mutual friend Lauren, Molly’s recent flame Jeff, her mother Helen, and ex-boyfriend Gunnar.

The movie’s main idea is to remind us once again about the importance of family, whether it’s chosen or blood. While Abby struggles to let go of a woman she loved, and Molly is trying to get through her marriage and subsequent divorce, the holiday gathering of friends, family, and lovers helps both women to gradually heal.

Reviews

Kamurai wrote:
Good enough watch, could watch again, and can recommend. I'm not a big fan of Malin Ackerman, but she manages to a great job in this, floating back and forth between personalities as the character tries to find herself. Kat Dennings' character is a little annoying, but she seems to have fun with it. This is the movie that makes me realize that I hate Chelsea Peretti and she was barely tolerable on "Brooklyn Nine-Nine". This movie is made for a very particular audience, and if I have try to deduce what that is, then it is likely women with trouble lives, in family or love. It's a fun roller coaster of every bad Thanksgiving story you've heard of, but possibly from more affluent people with normal problems that don't actually affect their lives realistically. This really is a good enough, but I feel it is right on the edge.

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