Pieces of April (2003)

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Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Oct 17, 2003
Running Time: 80 mins.
Country Of Origin: United States
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April Burns is a wild, 21-year-old young woman with a very big problem. Against her own better judgment, she's invited her estranged, straightlaced family for Thanksgiving dinner. Her boyfriend, Bobby, wants to help, but she banishes him from the apartment while she attempts to cook the meal. To make matters worse, she then discovers that her oven doesn't work. So, while April is forced to ask her eccentric neighbors for help in cooking her fifteen pound turkey, the Burns Family begins a reluctant journey from suburban Pennsylvania toward New York City's Lower East Side. April's Dad, Jim Burns tries to convince the family that the day will be beautiful. However, her mom, Joy, has her doubts and freely voices them. April's teenage sister and brother are squeezed between Grandma Dottie, and a bag of snacks in the back seat, as the Burns' family car hurtles toward Manhattan--and what will most likely be disaster.
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Beth Burns
Timmy Burns
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Half Asleep Man
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rating October 9, 2003
Making the move from TV to movies is a slippery slope. Look at the cast of Friends (Jennifer Aniston excepted). The jury is still out on Katie Holmes, just off a five-year run on Dawson's Creek. She's already done films, proving sexy (OK, she's always that) and smart in supporting roles (The Ice Storm, Go, Wonder Boys, The Gift). But her big star shot last year as a college psycho in Abandon failed to impress critics or audiences.

Pieces of April, a playful comedy laced with heartbreak that… Continued