Stuffing Cinema: DVDs to Watch This Weekend (Part 2)

By Addie Strong
November 25, 2010

Whether your family's genre is best-described as "drama" or "comedy," these movies—some of our favorites from the past year—are sure to please. Read on, and click here to check out five more movies we recommend sitting down with for the long holiday weekend ahead.

If you want a movie that will make both your parents and your significant other laugh …Watch the movie “Date Night.”

Phil and Claire Foster (Steve Carell and Tina Fey—a match made in Hollywood heaven) are stuck in a marriage rut, so they plan a date night one of Manhattan's swankiest restaurants. Their only problem? The spontaneous night out becomes more than they bargained for when they're sent running from would-be assassins. As is all too true in real life, the threat still doesn't stop Phil and Claire's sarcasm and spousal bickering, but it does strangely seem to bring them closer together. Hysterical cameos by Mark Wahlberg (mostly shirtless!) and J.B. Smoove round out the hilarity. (images courtesy of 20th Century Fox)

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Stuffing Cinema: DVDs to Watch This Weekend (Part 2)

If Macy's Thanksgiving Day parade has you craving New York City glitz … Watch “The September Issue.”

Fashion's not always as glamorous as it looks: There's a lot of work that goes on behind the scenes to make that parade shine, just like it takes plenty of backstage sweat to put together an issue of Vogue magazine—especially if you work for the infamously tough editor-in-chief Anna Wintour. Oddly, it's Anna’s frenemy and number-two woman at Vogue, Grace Coddington, who steals all the scenes in this too-true (trust us) documentary. (images courtesy of A&E Indie Films)

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If being at home is making you crave an exotic escape … Watch the movie “Eat Pray Love.”

Whether you loved or loathed the book by Elizabeth Gilbert (pretty much everyone we've met falls into one of those two categories), you'll appreciate the film version for its gorgeous cinematography. From pizza, pasta and parmesan in Italy to the bold colors smudged across India's terrain and the romance and peace of Bali's jungles, you'll be aching to book a flight to paradise by the end of the movie. We think an au natural Julia Roberts looks even better than she did 20 years ago in “Pretty Woman,” and sexy Spaniard Javier Bardem ain't too shabby either. (images courtesy of Columbia Pictures)

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If staying in your childhood room is making you nostalgic for high school … “An Education”

16-year-old Jenny (Carey Mulligan) has done everything right. She's a straight-A student, practices cello at her father's behest and does anything and everything her parents ask so that she can fulfill their dream of her attending Oxford. So when a playboy twice her age (Peter Sarsgaard) sweeps her off her feet and away from her trained path, Jenny has to decide what she truly wants in life. By the end of the film, you'll be glad you don't have to return to your teenage years! (images courtesy of Sony Pictures Classics)

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If you need to be reminded that some families are even more dysfunctional than yours … watch the movie “It's Complicated”

Jake and Jane Adler (Actor Alec Baldwin and Actress Meryl Streep) are divorced and splitting time with their three grown children. Jake has remarried, and Jane can't stand him or his new (much younger) wife. Against all odds and against better judgment, the warring exes rekindle their relationship while attending their son's college graduation. Only problem? They have to keep it a secret from their kids, their friends and their current lovers. Complications ensue. Trust us: the Adlers' affairs will make you appreciate the relatively insignificant drama created by your own folks this Thanksgiving. (images courtesy of Universal Pictures)