( Telephone Ringing )
Hello?
Sondra, Hi.
We Are Working Through And I Hope We Make It.
We've Never Had 15 People For Thanksgiving Before.
And We Never Will Again.
How's Turkey Number Two?
Oh, Great.
With Our Bird, That Makes 24 Pounds Of Turkey.
Your Grandmother's Making A Mess Of Collard Greens And Ham Hocks.
Martin And Your Grandfather Are Busy In The Basement.
Don't Forget About Us.
Yeah, The Piemakers.
And The Girls Are Up To Their Ears In Dough.
I Got To Get Off, This Is War.
Bye.
( Thunder )
How Did The Shopping Go?
You Sent Me Out On Thanksgiving
To Get Things From The Store.
Every Store Is Closed.
I Drove 20 Miles.
Finally Found A Place Called The Lucky Stop Market.
They Had A Line Of People
Longer Than Something To See Batman.
But You Forgot Canned Pumpkin For The Pumpkin Pie.
You Never Asked Me To Get Canned Pumpkin.
Honey, I Did Ask You.
I Told You To Write It Down.
You Said, "I Don't Need A List, It's All Up Here."
Are You Making Sweet Potato Pie?
Yes. Yes.
You Got Sweet Potato Pie.
People Don't Know The Difference Between That And Pumpkin Pie.
Just Put Some Whip Cream On And Tell Them It's Pumpkin.
Come On, Dad.
You Can't Have Thanksgiving Without Real Pumpkin Pie.
Heathcliff, You Also Forgot The Nutmeg.
You Got Nutmeg Here.
This Is Not Fresh.
Now We're Making Traditional Eggnog
And We Need Fresh Nutmeg.
Honey, Please, Go Get Some Nutmeg.
You Gonna Send Me All The Way Back Out There For A Nut?
There Are Other Things You Forgot, Honey.
Like Canned Pumpkin.
And You Forgot The Eggs
I Need For Corn Bread.
You Want A Dozen Eggs
A Can Of Pumpkin
And A Nut.
Nutmeg.
( Thunder )
I'm Ready To Help.
Great.
Put This Over There And Help Set The Table.
Who Made These?
Denise Thought It Would Be Cute To Have Place Settings
So I'm Putting Name Tags Where Everybody's Sitting.
Mom, You Put Me At A Table Between Rudy And Olivia?
So You Could Help Serve The Little Ones.
You Don't Know What This Means.
I'm At The Children's Table Again.
Vanessa.
All Those Thanksgiving We Had At Grandma's
I Always Sat At The Children's Table.
And When I Complained You Said
"Vanessa, When You're An Adult, You Can Sit With The Adults."
I'm 16 Now, I'm Adult.
And You Stab Me In The Back.
Vanessa, That Is Not A Children's Table.
How Can You Look Me In The Eye
And Say This Is Not A Children's Table?
This Is A Card Table.
I'll Be Surrounded By Infants.
You'll Be Talking About The World And Politics.
I'll Be Here Cutting Up Turkey And Wiping People's Noses.
Hello, Everybody.
Here, Mom, I've Got The Other Turkey In The Car.
Do You Need Any Help?
No, I'm Ready For Thanksgiving.
I've Got My 20 Pound Butterball Right Here.
That Is Rain.
What's In The Casserole?
Old Jamaican Favorite.
Curried Goat.
Curried Goat?
Can't Wait.
Dad, Help.
This Way, Son.
Which Way?
Bank To The Right.
Lester, I Told You.
We Should've Put That In Smaller Bowls.
But Look At It, It's Beautiful.
How Did You Get That In The Car?
We Strapped It To The Roof.
Hello, Denise.
Olivia.
Where Am I?
This Way, Elvin.
Hey.
Where's This Go?
The Men Are Downstairs Getting Their Stuff Ready
So You Guys Should Go Down.
See That, Dad?
In The Basement Again This Year.
These Women Just Don't Trust Us To Cook.
Got Your Pinchers Ready?
Pinchers Ready.
Okay Then, Pinch Away.
Pinch, Pinch...
( Telephone Ringing )
Keep Pinching.
Okay, Pinch, Pinch.
( Ringing )
Hello?
Paula.
Is That My Mommy?
Yeah.
Hi.
You're At The Airport.
How Long Are You There For?
Six Hours, Are You Kidding?
She's Right Here, Hold On.
Olivia, It's Your Mom.
Oh.
Hold On.
Hi, Mommy.
Do You Want To Hear My Thanksgiving Song?
♪ It's Thanksgiving Time ♪
♪ Its Turkey Time ♪
♪ His Name Is Tom ♪
♪ He's A Bird ♪
♪ That's The Word ♪
♪ Tom's A Bird. ♪
Thank You, Mom.
See You In Two Weeks.
Bye.
No, Wait, Hello?
Paula, I Have A Great Idea.
Why Don't You Come Here For Thanksgiving?
No, I Insist.
We're Just Having The Family Over.
You're Coming, Okay?
Great.
Tell The Cab Driver Brooklyn Heights
And We're At 10 Stigwood Avenue.
Okay?
See You In A Half-Hour.
Bye.
Mommy's Coming Over?
Yeah.
All Right.
I'm Gonna Put On My Good Dress.
Well, Okay.
Oh, Yay!
Why's She So Excited?
Guess Who I Just Invited To Dinner.
Who?
Paula.
Paula, Paula...
A Friend Of Yours?
Paula.
Your Ex-Wife, Paula.
You Invited My Ex-Wife Over For Thanksgiving Dinner?
She Was Flying Through To Atlanta
But Her Connection Was Cancelled Because Of The Weather.
Come On, You Guys Get Along.
Yeah, But I Guess I Never Thought I'd Be Having Dinner
With My Wife
And My Ex-Wife.
I Think It's Great.
I Finally Get To Meet Her.
Denise, Did You Ever Think
That Maybe I Would Be Uncomfortable?
That Maybe You Would Be Uncomfortable?
Everybody Would Be Uncomfortable?
If Anyone Should Be Uncomfortable, It Would Be Me
And I'm Fine.
Come On.
Okay.
Denise, You Constantly Amaze Me.
What Other Woman Would Welcome, With Open Arms
Her Husband's Former Wife To A Big Family Occasion.
I Think That Maybe That Is Why I Love You.
Mmm.
Oh, In The Kitchen, Of All Places.
Oh.
Mom, Olivia's Mom Was Delayed At The Airport
So I Invited Her.
Is That Okay?
You're Comfortable With That?
What's The Big Deal?
Martin's Married To Me.
He Loves Me.
I've Nothing To Be Insecure About.
If She Makes Any Moves, She's Dead.
Oh!
( Screams )
There's Your Dumb Canned Pumpkin
Your Stupid Eggs
And Your Silly Nut.
Nutmeg.
And Thank You.
Could You Take Those Wet Things Off
Before You Catch A Cold?
There Are No Eggs In Here.
There's Eggs In There.
I Put Eggs In, I Bought Eggs.
I Don't Care What That Bag Says
There's Eggs In There.
The Receipt Says "Canned Pumpkin" And "Nutmeg."
It Says Nothing About Eggs.
You Forgot The Eggs Again.
How Can I Make Corn Bread Without Eggs?
People Don't Need Corn Bread.
Let Them Eat Soda Crackers.
Hey, Cliffy.
Hey, Dad.
How You Doing?
Hope You Don't Mind
But There Won't Be Corn Bread.
That's One Of My Favorites, Your Homemade Corn Bread.
I'd Be A Happy Man
If All I Ate On Thanksgiving Was Your Corn Bread.
Oh, Hello, I'm So Glad You're Here.
Are You Going Back To The Market?
I Forgot Tomatoes In The Salad.
A Salad Without Tomatoes.
That's Like Having No Corn Bread.
All That's Keeping Us From Corn Bread Is Eggs.
I Heard The Doorbell Ring.
Is Paula Here?
No, That Was Kenny.
Oh, Well, You Call Me When She Comes.
We'll All Be In The Kitchen, Working.
Well, What Does She Look Like?
I Don't Know, That Was Kenny.
I'm Very Curious To Meet This Woman.
What Kind Of Person Leaves A Marriage
And A Beautiful Little Girl?
It's A Crazy World.
Ever Since Elvis And Priscilla Split Up
Things Haven't Been The Same.
You Know, I Think
When Paula Comes, We Should Greet Her
So She Doesn't Think We're Avoiding Her.
If We All Go In
It May Look Like We're Checking Her Out.
Dad, I Totally Agree.
Let's Just Hang Back.
Martin Will Need Time To Adjust
To Paula Being Here.
I Would If My Ex-Wife Showed Up.
What Do You Mean, "Ex-Wife?"
I'm Your Only Wife.
Are You Saying You Want An Ex-Wife?
No, If I Ever Had An Ex-Wife
It Would Be Another Woman, Not You.
( Doorbell Ringing )
Whoa, Whoa, That's Her.
Okay.
Hello, Martin.
You Must Be Denise.
Hi.
How Do You Do?
Hi, Paula, This Is Denise.
My Wife.
She Just Said This Must Be Denise.
Well, She Was Right.
Is It All Right, My Coming?
I Mean Family And...
My Family's Delighted To Have You Here.
Thanks.
Martin, You Look Good.
Thanks, You Look Good Yourself.
And Denise, Baby, You Look Fantastic.
Mommy, Mommy.
Sweetie, Come Here.
Darling, Hurry Up.
Goodness Gracious.
Wow, Look At You.
It's Only Been Three Months And You're So Big.
Denise Cooks For Me.
She Does?
Yes, And I'm Still Alive.
What's Going On?
Olivia's Hugging Paula.
Really?
Does Olivia Like Her?
She's Smiling.
Mom, Don't You Feel A Little Funny
Eavesdropping?
No.
I'm Making You A Present.
You Are?
But It's Not Ready.
I Need Five More Minutes, Okay?
Okay, I'll Be Right Here.
Daddy, You Come And Help Me.
Okay, Miss Bug-A-Boo, Be Right Up.
Bye, Sweetheart.
Okay, I Gotta Go Upstairs.
That Means The Two Of You Will Be By Yourselves
Is That Okay?
Martin, Would You Go?
Let Us Talk.
You're Incredible, Incredible.
So, Sit Down.
Nice Place.
I'm Glad Olivia Is Living In Such A Beautiful Home.
Thanks, This Is Where I Grew Up.
I Must Admit Though
I Am A Little Uncomfortable Being Here.
I See That, Would You Relax?
Just Relax.
You'll Fit Right In.
Hi, I'm Claire, Denise's Mother
And This Is Our Family.
I'm Sondra, Denise's Older Sister.
Elvin, Sondra's Husband.
Francine, Elvin's Mother.
Lester, Father Of Elvin.
Grandma Anna.
Her Husband, Grandpa Russell.
Cliff Is My Husband, Denise's Father.
It's Nice To Meet You All.
All: Nice To Meet You, Too.
We're Going Back In The Kitchen.
We've Got A Lot To Do.
Bye. Bye. Bye. Bye.
What A Nice Family.
They Don't Usually Travel In Packs.
They're Usually Roaming Around Separately.
My Family's Like That, Too.
So...
I've Heard A Lot About You.
And Me You.
I'm Curious
What Martin's Said.
That You Were Bright And A Good Student.
And That You Seemed Happy At The Beginning Of Your Marriage
And Then, You Announced This Wasn't For You
And You Left.
Let Me Explain To You What Happened.
I've Spent Most Of My Life Looking Over My Shoulder.
And I've Always Tried To Do What Everyone Wanted
Like School.
I Wanted To Major In Sociology.
But My Parents Said
"What Will You Do With Sociology?"
So Then I Majored In Accounting.
In My Senior Year, My Parents Say
"When Are You Going To Get Married?"
So I Meet A Graduate Of The Naval Academy
Who They Loved
And So We Got Married.
Then They Say, "When Are You Going To Have A Baby?"
Then I Put Everything On Hold And I Had Olivia.
Then It All Started To Close In.
I Couldn't Breathe.
I Had To Get Out.
So, As Painful As It Was
And As Hurtful As It Was
Martin Understood And He Let Me Go.
Of Course I Felt Guilty
Leaving Olivia And Leaving Martin
And Even Disappointing My Parents
But It's What I Had To Do.
So I've Been Seeing A Psychiatrist.
And She's Been Helping Me Get Everything Back Together.
And I've Even Gone Back To School
I'm Majoring In Sociology.
I'm Just Grateful That I Can See Olivia.
And That She's Got Someone Like You Raising Her.
You're Wonderful.
And I Can See Why She Likes You So Much.
Thank You.
That's The Way It Is.
Thanks For Sharing That With Me.
Mommy
Your Present's Ready, But I Didn't Wrap It.
Okay, Honey, Let Me See.
Now This Is Beautiful.
It's Me.
I Thought So, Darling.
You're Not Only Beautiful
But You're Extremely Talented.
Wow, And I Didn't Help You One Bit.
This Is A Masterpiece.
I Woulda Made One For You, But You See Me Every Day.
Dad.
I'm Not Going Back Out There.
This Is Paula, Olivia's Mom.
How Are You?
Pleasure To Meet You.
You Staying For Dinner?
I Was Invited.
I'm Not Going Back Out There.
Whoa!
The Weather Out There Is Unbelievable.
They Cancelled Our Flight.
We Can't Go Skiing Until Tomorrow.
If Not For Theo
I'd Have No Place To Go Today.
Howard And Denny's Parents Went Out Of Town.
So I Invited Them For Thanksgiving Dinner.
Is That Okay?
I'm Not Going Back Out There.
Go, Go, Go!
I Told You.
All Right, Let's Eat.
You Men Turn That Game Off.
Just Let Me See If They Score.
No Game.
Lester, Turn It Off.
Aw, Come On.
I Got To Do It.
I Live With Her.
Sondra, Dinner.
Cliff, You Can Come Down, Too.
Dad's Not Here, Mom.
You Said He Spilled Eggs On The Floor.
He Went Back Out.
You Didn't Tell Me He Went Back.
I Thought You'd Figure It Out.
Oh...
Ready To Eat?
We Have To Wait.
Do We Have To, I'm Hungry.
Kenny, What Are You Doing Here?
Rudy Invited Me.
Didn't You Have Dinner At Your House?
Yes, But I Have A Lot
To Be Thankful For.
Can I Stay?
I Guess So.
Sit Over There.
Let's Get This Food Back Inside
Before It Gets Cold.
All: Aw...
Yeah!
( Applause And Cheering )
Oh, Poor Thing.
How Did You Get Corn Bread Without Eggs?
Honey, I Borrowed The Eggs From Next Door.
Russell?
Heavenly Father...
You Got That Right.
Heavenly Father, Thank You For Gathering Us
To Celebrate The Blessings You've Given Us.
We Want To Thank You For The New Additions
Who Are With Us Today.
Olivia.
Martin And Paula.
And Dear Lord
While We Partake Of This Meal
Which Has Been So Lovingly Prepared
Let Us Remember
Those Who Don't Have A Place To Sleep
Or Enough Food To Eat.
And Those Of Us
Who've Been Out In The Rain All Day.
And We Ask In Your Name
To Continue To Bless Us With Good Health
And Allow Us To Gather Again
Next Year.
Amen.
All: Amen.
Let's Have Some Food.
Could You Put Those Wet Things
On The Stoop, Please?