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Genres:
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Comedy /
Drama /
Music
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Release:
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Director:
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Peter Hedges
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Actors:
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Katie Holmes,
Derek Luke,
Oliver Platt,
Alison Pill,
John Gallagher Jr.,
Patricia Clarkson,
Alice Drummond,
Vitali Baganov,
Lillias White,
Isiah Whitlock Jr.
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Duration:
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80 min.
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Rating:
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(7.2/10)71.5
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Plot Summary:
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In a very scant region of New York, April Burns and her boyfriend, the Afro-American Bobby, are preparing to receive April's kind for a thanksgiving dinner. While Bobby tries to borrow a suit for him, April realizes that her stove is broken and she tries desperately to consider a neighbor that can let her cook the turkey, since she does not want to fail (again) with her family. Meanwhile, in a suburb of Pennsylvania, her dysfunctional family is preparing to travel to New York. While driving in the means, the relationship between the Burns and the furious-sheep April is disclosed in every way ... the conversations between her invent Jim, her resented mother Gladness, her brother, her sister and her grandmother.
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Pieces of April
Britons may not celebrate Thanksgiving but we can hush relate to the distress of cooking a turkey pro a unrestrained b generally forebears. Peter Hedges' winning fish story adds ancillary complications in that April (Holmes) is the bad sheep of her kind, living in a grimy, shoebox-sized New York apartment with her - gasp - black boyfriend Bobby (Luke). Keep something to oneself Jubilation (Clarkson), Dad Jim (Platt), Grandma Dottie (Drummond) and siblings Timmy (Gallagher Jr) and Beth (Pill) have less than fond memories of April's previous ventures into the Nautical galley and true to etiquette she has forgotten to check whether her own oven is big plenty to homestead the turkey, let alone that it works. It isn't and doesn't. Thus, she's forced to supplicate w...
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