<strong>Thanksgiving</strong> is a moving portrait of the profound effects of love when all thatseems to remain is loss and grief. Unhinged by his wifes unexpec... » 

Thanksgiving is a moving portrait of the profound effects of love when all thatseems to remain is loss and grief. Unhinged by his wifes unexpected deathAnthony a middleaged Seattle journalist becomes obsessed with her past. Hedrives through the Nevada desert to locate her exhusband looking for someunnamable solace. But what awaits him is a bizarre and violent encounter withthe past that entangles Anthony with his halfestranged stepchildren thepolice and his own disquieted mind and that only makes Lucys ghostly presenceseem all the more real. The crisp dialogue shadowy atmosphere and sharppacing of a master crime writer work to great effect in this arresting storythat toys with the precipice of insanity and the extremes of passion and loss.This is a splendid shadow play on the enduring human mystery of love. «