The Best Things Coming to Hulu in November

Order in the court! Get ready for some high legal drama on Hulu this month in All’s Fair, starring grownup favorites Glenn Close, Naomi Watts, Niecy Nash-Betts and Sarah Paulson as high-powered divorce attorneys. Hit the road with Chris Hemsworth and his dad, recently diagnosed with Alzheimer’s disease, who go in search of memory on a road trip through Australia, and get your reality TV fix with a new season of The Secret Lives of Mormon Wives. We’ve also scouted a cornucopia of movies to stream with family while the turkey roasts. 

Coming Nov. 1

Because of Winn-Dixie (2005, PG)

Need a family-friendly movie to stream with the grandkids over the holiday this month? This comedy-drama directed by Wayne Wang, 76, celebrating its 20th anniversary this year, is just the ticket. It begins with motherless, lonely 10-year-old Opal (AnnaSophia Robb), who moves with her preacher dad (Jeff Daniels, 70) to a small Florida town. Enter a scruffily adorable pooch, whom Opal names Winn-Dixie after the store she found him in, and who introduces Opal to folks in town (including magnificent Cicely Tyson, quirky Eva Marie Saint and rocker Dave Matthews, 58, in his movie debut) who help her not only find her place in her new home but also feel closer to her father. 

The Color Purple (2023, PG-13)

Don’t be mistaken: This is not the well-loved 1985 movie, nor is it a remake of it. This is a film adaptation of the Tony-winning musical based on Alice Walker’s novel, and it’s credited with being a more faithful rendering of the book. From Ghanaian director Blitz Bazawule, this Color Purple is a rich musical tale of Celie (American Idol winner Fantasia Barrino in her film debut), an African American woman dealing with the hardships of living with an abusive husband (Colman Domingo, 55) in the American South during the early 1900s. The stellar cast includes Taraji P. Henson, 55, Danielle Brooks, Corey Hawkins, Grammy winner H.E.R., Jon Batiste, Aunjanue Ellis-Taylor, 55, and a cameo by Whoopi Goldberg (70 on November 13), who played Celie in the 1985 film. 

Ever After: A Cinderella Story (1998, PG-13)

Long before Drew Barrymore, 50, was cozying up to celebrities on her talk show sofa, she was starring in this romantic period drama that sets a revised, feminist-forward imagining of the Cinderella fairy tale in Renaissance-era France. Barrymore described her character to the Los Angeles Times as a “tough Cinderella. She dives into bees’ hives for the wax, takes pigs out truffle-hunting, swims in the river, quotes Sir Thomas More's Utopia. She even nails the prince with an apple for stealing her horse. She does many things a man does, whether it involves physical strength or reading. She’s ahead of her time in breaking down the barriers between a woman’s place in society and a man’s place.” Anjelica Huston, 74, plays the evil stepmother, which is all the more reason to stream this one.