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19 February 2004 (Germany) moreTagline:
She's the one in every family.Plot:
A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner. full summary | add synopsisPlot Keywords:
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Nominated for Oscar. Another 14 wins & 16 nominations moreNewsDesk:
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Holmes: "I'm Not Pregnant" (From WENN. 19 October 2007)
Holmes Rings in Birthday with Tom, Will & Jada
(From WENN. 20 December 2005)
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New Traditions Meet Old Over the Streets and Up the Stairs moreCast
(Cast overview, first billed only)| Katie Holmes | ... | April Burns | |
| Derek Luke | ... | Bobby | |
| Oliver Platt | ... | Jim Burns | |
| Alison Pill | ... | Beth Burns | |
| John Gallagher Jr. | ... | Timmy Burns | |
| Patricia Clarkson | ... | Joy Burns | |
| Alice Drummond | ... | Grandma Dottie | |
| Vitali Baganov | ... | Half Asleep Man | |
| Lillias White | ... | Evette | |
| Isiah Whitlock Jr. | ... | Eugene | |
| Adrian Martinez | ... | Man in Mohair Sweater | |
| Susan Bruce | ... | Tish | |
| Jamari Richardson | ... | Boy on Bicycle | |
| Leila Danette | ... | Woman in Stairwell | |
| Stephen Chen | ... | Lee Loung Tan |
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Rated PG-13 for language, sensuality, drug content and images of nudity.Parents Guide:
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Australia:M (cable rating) | Argentina:13 | Australia:PG | Finland:K-7 | Germany:6 | Singapore:M18 (re-rating) | Singapore:NC-16 (original rating) | UK:12A | USA:PG-13 | Portugal:M/12 | Chile:14Fun Stuff
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The logo on Bobby's t-shirt is that of the German army (Bundeswehr). moreGoofs:
Continuity: When Bobby goes out, April is shown with a bandage on her finger, long before she actually cuts it. moreSoundtrack:
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"Pieces of April" is a wonderful New York component for a trilogy of mordant but ultimately sweet holiday movies, along with the Parisian "La Buche" and the multi-ethnic L. A. "What's Cooking."
I particularly identified with Katie Holmes's character's incompetence at cooking Thanksgiving dinner when the other women in the theater were laughing uproariously at her efforts and I wasn't even sure what she was doing wrong, other than focusing like I would do more on the decorations than the food preparation.
Screenwriter and debut director Peter Hedges filmed in poorly lit digital video on an evidently minuscule budget but with a terrific cast and mise en scenes.
The characters who embark on parallel picaresque odysseys in a quaintly but believably diverse Lower East Side tenement and suburbs to city road trip are refreshingly individual and un-stereotyped in surprising directions, even if the actors may overdo the theatrical flourishes. Sean Hayes especially over-fusses his neighbor bit. Patricia Clarkson is marvelous as a mother with daughter issues and cancer.
There was nary a dry eye in the house at the end.