Thanks

About Thanks

Thanks is a 2011 American comedy film directed by Martin Bergman and starring Paul Dooley and Rita Rudner. The film premiered at the 2011 Palm Springs International Film Festival.

Website: http://www.thanksthemovie.com/

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Thanks is a 2011 American comedy film directed by Martin Bergman and starring Paul Dooley and Rita Rudner. The film premiered at the 2011 Palm Springs International Film Festival.

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Premise

Thanks is a Thanksgiving comedy set over three Thanksgivings spent at a California beach. Three adult children respond to their father remarrying a much younger woman as America and the world respond to the tumultuous 2008 economic upheaval.

Cast

Paul Dooley as Hank

Rita Rudner as Bunny

Steve Purnick as Steve

Brian Lohmann as Brian

Edi Patterson as Edi

Kelly Holden as Kelly

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Notable quotes

“Abdelnasser Abdelfattah and his sayings about Gratitude.”
— Abdelnasser Abdelfattah
“Nine-tenths of wisdom is appreciation. Go find somebody's hand and squeeze it, while there's time.”
— Dale Dauten, Cited in: Colleen Zuck etal. (2002) Daily Word for Families, p. 167.
“Gratitude doesn't send you out shopping to find satisfaction; it comes as a gift rather than a commodity, subverting the foundation of the whole economy. That's good medicine for land and people alike.”
— p. 111
“To receive honestly is the best thanks for a good thing.”
— George MacDonald, Mary Marston (1881), Chapter V.
“La reconnaissance est la mémoire du cœur.”
— Gratitude is the memory of the heart.
“"Thankfulness is the beginning of gratitude. Gratitude is the completion of thankfulness. Thankfulness may consist merely of words. Gratitude is shown in acts." Henri Frederic Amiel”
— The first two sentences are from William Taylor's English Synonyms Discriminated. --Hughh (talk) 16:39, 19 October 2016 (UTC)

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