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Our Little Sister
Why this pick
Its quietly observed family reconnection shares the warmth, restraint, and attention to meals, domestic spaces, and tentative gestures of care that make Pieces of April affecting.
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MOVIE2003 1h 21m USA
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Why this pick
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01 / THE STORY
A little about the film.
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 family, she opts to invite them for Thanksgiving dinner, probably the last for her mother Joy, who has breast cancer.
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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME
The people who bring it to life.
Katie Holmes
April Burns
Patricia Clarkson
Joy Burns
Alice Drummond
Grandma Dottie
Lillias White
Evette
Isiah Whitlock Jr.
Eugene
Adrian Martinez
Man in Mohair Sweater
Susan Bruce
Tish
Leila Danette
Woman in Stairwell