‘Home For The Holidays’ avoids the gay clichés for Thanksgiving with the family

Jodie Foster directing Holly Hunter | Image Credit: ‘Home For The Holidays,’ Paramount Pictures

Welcome back to our queer film retrospective, “A Gay Old Time.” In this week’s column, we’re revisiting the 1995 seasonal favorite, Home For The Holidays, directed by Jodie Foster.

Happy Thanksgiving weekend! We might all still be passed out on the couch recovering from various food comas or scrolling online for the best Black Friday deals, but at the end of the day what this holiday is about is being with family. Chosen or biological. Willingly or for tradition’s sake. For better and certainly for worse.

For years, entertainment has understood that Thanksgiving is one of the most narratively rich days of the year; where people come back to places they fought

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