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Synopsis: After years of fruitless warning of his farmyard brethren of the coming Thanksgiving doom, Reggie the Turkey finds himself spared as the annual Pardoned Turkey. However, Reggie's easy life is disrupted by Jake, a fanatic turkey who drags him along with the insane idea of going back in time to make sure turkeys are not part of the first Thanksgiving. Through foolhardiness and luck, the pair manage to take an experimental time machine to do just that. Now in 1621 at the Plymouth colony, Reggie and Jake find themselves in the middle of a turkey clan's struggle for survival. In doing so, their preconceptions of the world and themselves are challenged forever in a conflict from which the world will never be the same.
Director(s): Jimmy Hayward
Production: Relativity Media
  2 nominations.
 
IMDB:
5.9
Metacritic:
38
Rotten Tomatoes:
19%
PG
Year:
2013
91 min
$46,667,023
Website
6,339 Views


we will not survive, all right?

Oh! Ha...

Oh!

Three days, that's it.

I promise.

- You can all hold out.

- Yes!

Governor Bradford is right.

We can all hold out...

Except for Clancy.

But he was sick on the boat,

so that's not on me.

- We want that food in storage.

- Give us them keys!

Mummy!

Standish has returned!

Standish!

Myles, you've returned!

Hi!

Ha-ha!

Did I tell you I was gonna provide food

for ye, yes I did, didn't I?

Ha! You call that a bounty?

Standish, the people want my head.

And if we do not have the feast,

I'm afraid they will take it.

We need food. Anything at this point.

I said I would get you turkeys...

Oh!

...and that's what you are going to get.

Even more than you can eat.

Right, well, good chat.

Talk tomorrow.

What a personality.

So, Alpha Turkey up there...

...what's the story?

You two, um, rubbing wattles or...

Ew! No, Ranger is my brother.

Get inside!

Inside, get!

And you know, even if he wasn't...

I'm looking for more mind

and less muscle.

Really? Are you serious?

'Cause I have like almost no muscle.

Literally, I'm like nothing.

Maybe you should get that looked at.

- After you.

- Whoa!

It's a tiny drop, I promise.

Whoa!

Oh...

Glutes.

So this is... everyone.

An army in need of a commander.

Wow, I've never seen so many turkeys

in one place actually doing things.

I'm just shocked.

So, in the future,

turkeys just sit around all day

eating and staring at the wall?

Yes. I mean, no!

No, that would be...

I mean, some do. No one I know.

If we weren't doing things,

we'd become dumb.

- Don't you think?

- Hm...

- Hello, wild undomesticated

- Oh no.

Simple turkeys from the distant past.

I have brought you a gift,

and the gift is me. I am Jake.

I have traveled

in a time machine named S.T.E.V.E.

In order to stop Thanksgiving

and get turkeys off the menu!

What's Thanksgiving?

Yeah, that's right. It hasn't happened.

It's a feast of sorts.

What's a menu?

A menu, it's like a list of food items

in a restaurant.

- What's a restaurant?

- That's not important.

What's important is

that you stop asking me questions

and agree to follow me blindly!

No!

We will not fight.

I am Broadbeak, leader of the flock.

And this is Leatherbeak, high elder

and my most trusted advisor.

Huh! You...

...have traveled a great distance.

You...

Hm...

...and your lovely wife.

She's beautiful, so soft and feminine.

Father, this is Jake and Reggie.

They're from the future, apparently.

Father?

Please, walk with me.

Jake, you speak with deep conviction.

- Well, I can speak even...

- deeper if you like.

We did not always live underground.

We lived above in the trees,

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Scott Mosier

Scott A. Mosier (born March 5, 1971) is a Canadian-American film director, film producer, editor, podcaster, writer and actor best known for his work with director Kevin Smith, with whom he occasionally co-hosts the weekly podcast, SModcast. more…

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