Unlike Christmas, the Thanksgiving holiday hasn't inspired thousands of Hollywood movies. You'd probably have a tough time naming more than a handful of them.

That gives Woody Allen's Hannah and Her Sisters an extra distinction, though it hardly needs one. The 1986 movie, which begins and ends on the holiday, has an extraordinarily fine cast: Mia Farrow plays Hannah, Dianne Wiest and Barbara Hershey are her sisters, and the roster also includes Michael Caine (he and Wiest won Oscars), Maureen O'Sullivan, Max Von Sydow, Carrie Fisher, Julie Kavner, Lloyd Nolan, Allen, even a cameo by Bobby Short.

It's the richly textured story of three sisters, their choices, their loves and losses. And it's the story of a family, however imperfect, with plenty to be thankful for.