In Thunderball, the Junkanoo is mistakenly identified with Mardi Gras. They’re traditionally held on Boxing Day or New Year’s Day.
So is the opening of the James Bond movie SPECTRE.
Cavalcade, Best Picture winner for 1933, opens on New Year’s Eve 1899 and closes on New Year’s Day 1933.
Also The Book of Life
Holiday Inn is best known for White Christmas, but also features New Year’s Eve, Lincoln’s Birthday, Valentine’s Day, Washington’s Birthday, Easter, Independence Day, and Thanksgiving.
Likewise The Siege of Firebase Gloria (which also features R. Lee Ermey).
Also the 1999 film 200 Cigarettes. Thanks for jogging the memory.
“Stalag 17” is set at Christmas 1944”
Li’l Abner features Sadie Hawkins Day. Although the event was made up for the comic strip, it became a real event for a while.
The Australian movie Heatwave opens at a New Year’s celebration, which happens during a heatwave.
Hmm, figured someone else would have mentioned these but after a quick skim, I didn’t see them. There was a rash of crummy romantic comedies in the 10s that seemed to be going out of their way to replicate the success of Love Actually which was basically a Christmas movie. I give you.
Valentine’s Day (2010 film) - Wikipedia
New Year’s Eve (2011 film) - Wikipedia
Mother’s Day (2016 film) - Wikipedia
That last one’s not really a comedy, but you get it.
Jaws is set during 4th of July
Life of Brian has Easter covered again
Edit : well maybe not as he wasn’t the messiah.
Life Day was central to the plot of The Star Wars Holiday Special
Good Friday at best, but it doesn’t appear that Brian is even being crucified together with Christ.
However, Life of Brian definitely does cover the first Epiphany.
I mentioned the first three upthread. All were directed by Garry Marshall.
And The Twelve Commandments covers the first Passover.
There was an animated movie with a time traveling turkey that went to the first thanksgiving , unless i was having a rather bad hallucination.
Did you drop one of the tablets?
It was Freebirds, and then I saw in my googling ‘scent of a woman’.