Pieces of April (2003)

81 min · Family Drama, Komödie, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, drama film

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Directors

Peter Hedges

Cast

Katie Holmes, Derek Luke, Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt, Alison Pill, John Gallagher Jr., Alice Drummond, Lillias White, Isiah Whitlock Jr.

The story

April Burns, the eldest daughter in a highly dysfunctional family, lives in a small tenement apartment on the Lower East Side of Manhattan with her boyfriend Bobby. Although estranged from her parents, Jim and Joy, and younger siblings Beth and Timmy, she opts to invite them for Thanksgiving dinner. It is expected to be the last Thanksgiving for Joy, who is dying from breast cancer.

Catalogue themes and tags

2000s, Auto, Breast Cancer, Brother, Car Journey, Chaos, Cooking, Daughter, Essen, Everyday Family Life, Familie, Familienstreit, Familientreffen, Family History, Family Outing, Family Reunion, Fastfood, Father Figure, Food, Freundin, Friendship, Gescheiterte Beziehung, Geschwister, Holiday, Kochrezept, Krebs, Loss of Mother, Maternal Role, Mother, Motherly Love, Mutter-Tochter-Beziehung, Nachbarn, New York, Parents Kids Relationship, Pot, Rejection, Relation, Resistance, Separated Family, Sister, Thankfulness, Thanksgiving, Trinken, Turkey, Vegetable, vater, Indie, Comedy-drama, Holiday Film, Drama, Comedy, Domestic Comedy

Genres

Family Drama, Komödie, Romantic Comedy, comedy film, drama film

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