I recommend the film for its true contribution to the American version of 'kitchen-sink' realism.

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Oliver Platt, Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, and Derek Luke in Pieces of April (2003)

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She's the one you're supposed to throw out.

Patricia Clarkson and Rusty De Wees in Pieces of April (2003)

Oliver Platt, Alice Drummond, and Peter Hedges in Pieces of April (2003)

Sean Hayes and Katie Holmes in Pieces of April (2003)

Patricia Clarkson in Pieces of April (2003)

Sisqó and Derek Luke in Pieces of April (2003)

Katie Holmes

Oliver Platt

Patricia Clarkson

Peter Hedges

A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner.

Pieces of April

&quot;Pieces of April&quot; is a wonderful New York component for a trilogy of mordant but ultimately sweet holiday movies, along with the Parisian &quot;La Buche&quot; and the multi-ethnic L. A. &quot;What&apos;s Cooking.&quot;  

I particularly identified with Katie Holmes&apos;s character&apos;s incompetence at cooking Thanksgiving dinner when the other women in the theater were laughing uproariously at her efforts and I wasn&apos;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.

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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.

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