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Pieces Of April details
| Format: | 12 DVD |
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| Starring: | Patricia Clarkson, Sean Hayes, Oliver Platt, Katie Holmes, Oliver Platt, Derek Luke |
| Director: | Peter Hedges |
| Genre: | Drama - General |
| Studio: | MGM ENTERTAINMENT |
| Name | Discs | |
|---|---|---|
Pieces Of April |
12 Feature |
DVD Information
| Run time: | 1 hour 17 minutes |
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| Rental release: | 11 Jun 2004 |
| Main languages: | English |
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Already in my top 3 of 2004!
By Matthew Sludds from East Anglia , 13 Jul 2004[Highly rated reviewer]
It?s Thanksgiving and April Burns has invited her family to her New York apartment for dinner. As the eldest, and most alienated of three children this is a real chance for April to make a much needed good impression on her family.
If only it were this simple. Dinner is proving slightly more difficult than she anticipated, mainly due to the oven not working. Her boyfriend Bobby has been out for most of the day and she needs to recruit the help of her neighbours to get the turkey cooked.
Her efforts might be short-lived however, as her family are travelling from Pennsylvania somewhat reluctantly. Joy, her Mother deals with recurrent bouts of nausea brought on by her cancer chemotherapy and finds occasional relief from her Son?s cannabis supply.
Peter Hedges has developed an excellent script into a simple but effective film that had me laughing out loud one minute before placing a lump in my throat the next. The dialogue is witty and amusing from start to finish and the film never gets too heavy whilst dealing with some tough issues. The perfect answer to a lazy Sunday afternoon.- Was this review helpful to you?
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(77)okay indie film
By a customer from Newcastle, England , 20 Jul 2012Katie Holmes is pretty decent as are the other lead actors/actresses, the plot is wafer thin, the script is poor in places and the direction is dull. Katie Holmes is one hot sexy lady though, her legs, ass and breasts as per usual are a sight to behold, thankyou Jesus!- Was this review helpful to you?
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Pieces of a very good film
By Oldbloke (305 reviews) from Sidmouth , 02 Mar 2011April, a tempermental and rebellious daughter living in a New York tenement invites her estranged small town family for Thanksgiving. Their car journey is complicated by the physical and emotional fragility of her cancer-stricken mother and their mutual reluctance to attend. Meanwhile, April's oven doesn't work and she is forced to seek assistance from a variety of oddball neighbours. Short, quirky indie film is shot up close and personal. It offers an original, highly amusing and truthful look at a family in crisis and then goes and spoils it with a rushed crowd-pleasing ending that is not worthy of it.- Was this review helpful to you?
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Poor
By Doogy (2 reviews) from Beith , 16 Jul 2009I watched this film with my girlfriend, after being told good things about it......it clearly wasn't one for us, i'm not one for falling asleep during a film, regardless of how bad it is, but neither of us could keep our eyes open. Would not recommend to anyone, although many people seem to have enjoyed to it, so maybe it's just us =p- Was this review helpful to you?
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Oh dear lord!
By a customer from Sussex , 15 Mar 2009One of the worst films I have ever seen. Depressing, pretentious rubbish. Katie Holmes character was so annoying I have no words.- Was this review helpful to you?
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dysfunctional feel-good
By a customer from Uxbridge , 25 Jan 2009Poor April, determined to host her dysfunctional family for Thanksgiving dinner, and everything goes wrong. Aprils new home is an apartment in a bock populated with more odd people. April's life is in pieces- everyone's life is in pieces, the meal looks as if it will never happen. ..But by the end several people have reinvented themselves, and the pieces come together in a pleasing finale.- Was this review helpful to you?
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