Men's Thanksgiving
2014 · 6m · USA
Directed by Tom Levin
Tones: absurdist, darkly comic, humorous
A house full of men with nothing to say to each other — they don't know each other, don't know whose house they're in, and they're committed to the bit. Fire-building, bird-watching, touch football, zero women, maximum awkward.
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Reposted on NoBudge every Thanksgiving since 2014, which: yes. Strangers in a house pretending they're cousins, magnified until it hurts.
An ensemble of strangers performing masculinity in a stranger's house is a Christopher Guest premise played for actual sociology; if the script trusts silence, this could be quietly devastating.
A house full of men with nothing to say to each other, committed to the bit for the whole holiday — sustained small-talk magnified past social plausibility is a deceptively hard register to hold and the no-explanation-of-no-women is the right move.