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Overview

User Rating:
7.2/10   11,388 votes
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Director:
Peter Hedges
Writer (WGA):
Peter Hedges (written by)
Contact:
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Release Date:
19 February 2004 (Germany) more
Genre:
Comedy | Drama more
Tagline:
She's the one in every family.
Plot:
A wayward daughter invites her dying mother and the rest of her estranged family to her apartment for Thanksgiving dinner. full summary | add synopsis
Awards:
Nominated for Oscar. Another 14 wins & 16 nominations more
NewsDesk:
(4 articles)
question of the day: Why aren’t there more movies about Thanksgiving?
 (From FlickFilosopher. 6 November 2009, 8:22 AM, PST)

Holmes: "I'm Not Pregnant"
 (From WENN. 19 October 2007)

User Comments:
I agree, best Thanksgiving movie ever more (169 total)

Cast

  (Cast overview, first billed only)

Katie Holmes ... April Burns
Derek Luke ... Bobby

Oliver Platt ... Jim Burns

Alison Pill ... Beth Burns
John Gallagher Jr. ... Timmy Burns

Patricia Clarkson ... Joy Burns
Alice Drummond ... Grandma Dottie

Vitali Baganov ... Half Asleep Man
Lillias White ... Evette

Isiah Whitlock Jr. ... Eugene

Adrian Martinez ... Man in Mohair Sweater
Susan Bruce ... Tish
Jamari Richardson ... Boy on Bicycle
Leila Danette ... Woman in Stairwell
Stephen Chen ... Lee Loung Tan
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Additional Details

MPAA:
Rated PG-13 for language, sensuality, drug content and images of nudity.
Runtime:
80 min
Country:
USA
Language:
English | Mandarin
Color:
Color
Aspect Ratio:
1.85 : 1 more
Sound Mix:
Dolby Digital
Company:
United Artists more

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Trivia:
Shot in just 16 days on a budget of $100,000. Costs were kept this low by the film company InDigEnt cutting a deal with the unions. This meant that Peter Hedges was paid $10 to direct the film, and another $10 to write it. All the actors worked for $248 a day. more
Goofs:
Continuity: At the end of the film, when the snapshots are shown of April and her mother hugging, April is wearing a pink sweater. In the very next shot of Joy's face April is not wearing the sweater. more
Quotes:
Jim Burns: I can think of one memory. She was wearing a pink nightgown...
Timmy Burns: That was ME!
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Movie Connections:
Featured in "Ego Trip's Race-O-Rama" (2005) more
Soundtrack:
I Think I Need a New Heart more

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12 out of 19 people found the following comment useful.
I agree, best Thanksgiving movie ever, 13 March 2005
10/10
Author: Marian Paroo from Tel Aviv

I am so glad that I decided to plonk down a couple of dollars and see this movie on Pay for Play the other night. I wasn't sure what to expect, and I had one of the nicest movie surprises I had in a long time.

April is a the black sheep of her family, but as Rita Mae Brown wrote in one of her better novels to describe a character, has golden hooves. She's gone off from the hills of, what is filmed anyway, in upstate New York to lower Manhattan. But she's no That Girl. Her previous boyfriend was a drug dealer, and her current fellow, gets his clothing at less than wholesale prices.

She has a mixed bag dysfunctional family, the star of which is the kind of little sister you wish you had sent out to play in traffic when you had a chance, that she is trying to reconnect with. April is too good for this bunch, as she tries to prepare the all American Thanksgiving dinner in her own special way for this undeserving bunch.

It is so touching to see her, finally succeeding (maybe) in her quest for a stove making favors, and decorating the stairway, all 4-5 floors with autumn colored streamers, etc.

I just wanted to hug her!

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