{"id":9268,"date":"2021-04-01T16:59:00","date_gmt":"2021-04-01T20:59:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/?p=9268"},"modified":"2025-04-18T18:31:11","modified_gmt":"2025-04-18T22:31:11","slug":"holidays-in-movies-easter","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/04\/01\/holidays-in-movies-easter\/","title":{"rendered":"Holidays in Movies:  Easter"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>We are a movie watching household, so there is never anything quite so satisfying as being able to gear-up for and celebrate a holiday with some evening viewing.  This is the second in a series where I pull out the movies we watch for those holidays that aren&#8217;t Halloween and Christmas.  The first were <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/holidays-in-movies-thanks-giving\">Thanksgiving<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2020\/12\/29\/holidays-in-the-movies-new-year\/\">New Year<\/a> if you are in to this holiday thing.  <\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-media-text alignwide is-stacked-on-mobile\" style=\"grid-template-columns:30% auto\"><figure class=\"wp-block-media-text__media\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"201\" height=\"278\" data-attachment-id=\"9373\" data-permalink=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/04\/01\/holidays-in-movies-easter\/easterbunny\/\" data-orig-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/easterbunny.png\" data-orig-size=\"201,278\" data-comments-opened=\"1\" data-image-meta=\"{&quot;aperture&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;credit&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;camera&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;caption&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;created_timestamp&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;copyright&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;focal_length&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;iso&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;shutter_speed&quot;:&quot;0&quot;,&quot;title&quot;:&quot;&quot;,&quot;orientation&quot;:&quot;0&quot;}\" data-image-title=\"easterbunny\" data-image-description=\"\" data-image-caption=\"\" data-medium-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/easterbunny.png\" data-large-file=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/easterbunny.png\" src=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/easterbunny.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-9373 size-full\" srcset=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/easterbunny.png 201w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/easterbunny-108x150.png 108w, https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/12\/easterbunny-104x144.png 104w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 201px) 100vw, 201px\" \/><\/figure><div class=\"wp-block-media-text__content\">\n<p class=\"has-large-font-size\">Easter<\/p>\n\n\n\n<ul class=\"wp-block-list\">\n<li>The Being (1983): monsters, murder, green slime, and nuclear waste, what more can one ask for on Easter?<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>It&#8217;s the Easter Beagle, Charlie Brown (1974): Charlie Brown = holidays, again and again and again.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>The First Easter Rabbit (1976): I love Rankin and Bass productions. I love the animation and I love the clay-mation. Most of the specials I have collected are Christmas, of course, but Rankin and Bass hit all the holidays, or almost all.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Easter Parade (1948):  I grew up with musicals, so of course they are prime for inclusion in holiday themed viewing.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Chocolat (2000):  I think this movie gets over looked a bunch, and I over looked it too, even though the entire film is building towards Easter.<\/li>\n\n\n\n<li>Critters 2-the main course (1988): there are eggs and there is an Easter egg hunt, so of course.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<\/div><\/div>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>We are a movie watching household, so there is never anything quite so satisfying as being able to gear-up for and celebrate a holiday with some evening viewing. This is the second in a series where I pull out the movies we watch for those holidays that aren&#8217;t Halloween and Christmas. The first were Thanksgiving&#8230; <a href=\"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2021\/04\/01\/holidays-in-movies-easter\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Holidays in Movies:  Easter<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[33],"tags":[283,48,290,21],"class_list":["post-9268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-easter","tag-holiday","tag-holidays-in-movies","tag-movies"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":10450,"url":"https:\/\/theleemsmachine.com\/bean\/blog\/2024\/09\/25\/holidays-in-the-movies-calendar-summary\/","url_meta":{"origin":9268,"position":0},"title":"Holidays in the Movies:  calendar summary","author":"leems","date":"September 25, 2024","format":false,"excerpt":"Over the past few years we have been cultivating holiday themed watching to get us in the right frame of mind for every holiday. 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