Pieces of April
(2004, original release: 2003)

Fiction

DVD

Call Numbers:
DVD/COMEDY/PIECES

Availability

Locations Call Number Status
Movies DVD/COMEDY/PIECES Available

Details

PUBLISHED
[United States] : MGM Home Entertainment, [2004]
©2003
DESCRIPTION

1 videodisc (81 min.) : sound, color ; 4 3/4 in

ISBN/ISSN
6308236268 1005951, 0792860047
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES

Originally released as a motion picture in 2003

Family outcast April lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby. In order to spend some time with her dying mother, April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Her dad tries to think positively, while sister Beth flaunts her good-girl status and brother Timmy captures it all on film

Special features: commentary by writer/director Peter Hedges; behind-the-scenes featurette; theatrical trailer

Director of photography, Tami Reiker ; editor, Mark Livolsi ; music, Stephin Merritt ; costume designer, Laura Bauer ; production designer, Rick Butler

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

MPAA rating: PG-13; for language, sensuality, drug content and images of nudity

DVD, Region 1, widescreen (1.85:1) and pan & scan presentations, 5.1 Dolby Digital surround

English dialogue, French or Spanish subtitles; closed-captioned

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