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Pieces of April
Why this pick
Like Home for the Holidays, it turns a tense family gathering into funny, bruising, unexpectedly tender chaos, with an offbeat adult daughter trying to make connection possible.
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MOVIE1995 1h 43m USA
IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU
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The Family Stone
Why this pick
Its holiday-house pressure cooker balances sharp sibling banter, romantic complications, and genuine affection beneath a family’s relentless ability to embarrass one another.
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Hannah and Her Sisters
Why this pick
A Thanksgiving-centered ensemble with the same mix of neurotic comic friction and heartfelt family bonds, following tangled relatives with warmth rather than easy sentimentality.
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The Savages
Why this pick
Its estranged siblings share Home for the Holidays’ unsparing wit and emotional messiness, finding reluctant closeness while dealing with the unglamorous demands of family.
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This Is Where I Leave You
Why this pick
A grown sibling group forced back under one roof delivers the familiar pleasures of accumulated resentments, embarrassing revelations, and affection surviving the bickering.
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
Claudia Larson, a single mom who has just been fired from her job as an art restorer due to budget cuts, flies from Chicago to spend Thanksgiving at the Baltimore home of her parents, Adele and Henry Larson, while her only child Kitt decides to stay home and spend the holiday with her boyfriend. As she is dropping her mother off at the airport, Kitt informs Claudia that she intends to have sex with her boyfriend for the first time while she's gone. While on the plane, Claudia makes a phone call to Tommy, her younger brother and confidante who she believes won't be attending the Thanksgiving dinner, telling him that she lost her job, made out with her boss, and knows that her daughter is going to sleep with her boyfriend.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Cynthia Stevenson
Joanne Larson Wedman
Holly Hunter
Claudia Larson
Robert Downey Jr.
Tommy Larson
Anne Bancroft
Adele Larson
Charles Durning
Henry Larson
Claire Danes
Kitt Larson
Dylan McDermott
Leo Fish
Geraldine Chaplin
Aunt Glady