| Pieces of April (2003)
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| Front Cover |
Actor |
Back Cover |
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| Katie Holmes |
April Burns
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| Patricia Clarkson |
Joy Burns
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| Oliver Platt |
Jim Burns
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| Derek Luke |
Bobby
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| Alison Pill |
Beth Burns
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| John Gallagher, Jr. |
Timmy Burns
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| Alice Drummond |
Grandma Dottie
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| Sean Hayes |
Wayne
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| Lillias White |
Evette
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| John Gallagher Jr. |
Timmy Burns
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| Isiah Whitlock Jr. |
Eugene
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| Sisqó |
Latrell (as SisQo)
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| Armando Riesco |
Tyrone
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| Plot |
| Novelist and screenwriter Peter Hedges makes his directorial debut with the comedy drama Pieces of April . Family outcast April Burns ( Katie Holmes ) lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby ( Derek Luke ). In order to spend some time with her dying mother, Joy ( Patricia Clarkson ), April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. She discovers that her oven is broken the morning of the big day, so she goes around her tenement building trying to find a sympathetic neighbor with a working oven. Though she doesn't know them, neighbors Eugene ( Isiah Whitlock ) and Evette ( Lillias White ) offer the use of their oven, but only for an hour. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Dad Jim ( Oliver Platt ) tries to think positively, while daughter Beth ( Alison Pill ) flaunts her good-girl status and son Timmy ( John Gallagher Jr. ) captures it all on film. Shot with digital video, Pieces of April is a project of the Independent Film Channel's InDigEnt production company. — Andrea LeVasseur |
| Movie Details |
| Genre |
Comedy; Drama; Family |
| Director |
Peter Hedges; Peter Hedges (II) |
| Producer |
Alexis Alexanian; Gary Winick; John Lyons |
| Writer |
Peter Hedges |
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| Studio |
IFC Films |
| Country |
USA
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| Language |
English |
| Audience Rating |
PG-13 |
| Running Time |
80 mins |
| Movie Release Date |
1/19/2003 |
| Color |
Color |
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| Personal Details |
| Format |
DVD |
| Seen It |
Yes |
| Index |
203 |
| Collection Status |
In Collection |
| Purchase Date |
3/5/2004 |
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| Product Details |
| Region |
 Region 1 |
| Screen Ratio |
 1.85:1 |
| Layers |
Single Side, Dual Layer |
| UPC (Barcode) |
027616901811 |
| Chapters |
20 |
| Release Date |
2004 |
| Subtitles |
English; French; Spanish |
| Packaging |
Keep Case |
| Audio Tracks |
 English Dolby Digital 5.1
French Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Nr of Disks/Tapes |
1 |
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Extra Features
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| Color Closed-captioned Widescreen |
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