St. Patrick’s Day: “The Fugitive”! Remember how they’re coloring Lake Michigan green, and how Dr. Kimble escapes from the marshals by donning a green bowler and joining the St. Patrick’s Day parade?
Thanksgiving: “Planes, Trains and Automobiles” is all about Steve Martin’s quest to get home for Thanksgiving.
New Year’s Eve: In “The Poseidon Adventure,” the tidal wave strikes just as everyone is sipping champagne and singing “Auld Lang Syne.”
Easter: “Steel Magnolias” ends with a big Easter egg hunt.
Uh… several non Christian-American holidays have been mentioned. Halloween, Groundhog Day, Thanksgiving, Lughnasah and Beltaine among them. Feel free to add yours after you switch to decaf.
Well, there was the biographical “King”, but it was a TV miniseries way back before the holiday was established. I’ll leave you to guess on which hoilday it is usually played.
One of the Bond movies is set in New Orleans on Mardi Gras. So if 007 stays overnight in the film, that covers Ash Wednesday.
And Doc Hollywood has a good portion of it during July 4, since we haven’t had any 4th of July suggestions not mentioning the holiday in the title yet.
Passover: in the upcoming movie The Jew on Trial, a Jewish Russian is accused of killing a 13-year-old Christian and using the boy’s blood in Passover matzos.
Oh, man. Ash Wednesday is one of my favorite holidays. My friends and I used to all get together and, uuhhh, not eat meat, and, uuhhh, not drink lots of beer. Ash-colored beer.
Actually, even if Bond went up to Baton Rouge the following day, there is a Liz Taylor movie called Ash Wednesday.
Another movie that incorporates the 4th of July is Leaving Normal, starring Meg Tilly and Christine Lahti.
Passover is featured in Family Business.
The cycle of holidays notes the passage of time in About Last Night.
It’s been a long time, but isn’t *Miss Firecraker * set at a 4th of July celebration?
In the book, Gremlins happens at Christmas time, but I don’t recall if that was explicit in the movie.
The opening and closing of The Wiz takes place at a family gathering in winter, but I can’t recall if it’s a particular holiday or not. *The Hebrew Hammer * fights to save Hanukah in the movie of the same name.
Yep, it is. Gizmo is Billy’s early christmas present, Corey Feldman’s character walks around in a tree costume delivering Christmas trees and Phoebe Cates doesn’t celebrate because of… the incident…
I know the Sandlot takes place over a summer and includes a scene that happens on the 4th of July.
Is there a specific Jewish holidy (or observance) for which it is traditional to have a cantor singing Kol Nidre? If so, i think The Jazz Singer qualifies for that one.
Kol Nidre is the beginning service for Yom Kippur, the Day Of Atonement. Yom Kippu and Rosh Hashannah (the Jewish New Year) are the two big holidays of Judaism.
Some non-Western holidays that haven’t been mentioned yet:[ul][li]Tet gets a fireworks display in Full Metal Jacket.[/li][li]A child is orphaned as a result of a mishap during a Diwali celebration in English Babu Desi Mem.[/li][li]Eka Dasa Rudra[Sup]*[/Sup] gets an entire documentary in Michael Ambrosino’s film Three Worlds of Bali (which–surprisingly–doesn’t seem to be listed on the IMDB)[/ul] [/li]*Does a festival that only gets celebrated once every hundred years qualify as a “holiday”?
