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That's pretty much the message of How to Make an American Quilt, as received by Finn (Winona Ryder), a graduate student who spends a small-town summer with her grandmother and aunt (Ellen Burstyn and Anne Bancroft), working on her thesis and getting her head together. As things work out, she seems to devote most of her time to gathering instructive reminiscences from them and the rest of the ladies in their quilting bee. They are neither so genteel nor stridently feminist as you might fear...
...received the Bancroft and Pulitzer prizes in1978 for The Visible Hand...
Television: Anne Bancroft in a Paddy Chayevsky classic...
...production, directed by Simon Curtis, is spare and uncompromising. Black-and-white shots of a rainy New York City in the 1950s punctuate the scenes. Anne Bancroft, as the mother, looks lost inside her drab overcoat, while Joan Cusack and Adrian Pasder etch small, sad portraits of her well- meaning daughter and son-in-law. The camera focuses patiently on everyday details: a woman reaching into the refrigerator for a glass of milk or trying to thread a sewing machine. Then there is Chayefsky's fabled naturalistic dialogue, which faces up to cliches ("I don't want...
...Graduate" stars Dustin Hoffman as the young recent college graduate who has an affair with the older, seductive Mrs. Robinson played by Anne Bancroft. This is a brilliant coming-of-age comedy about the changes sex can have for a morally upstanding, soon-to-be-guided-into-the-corporate-world-by-his- father young man. Plastics are not where he wants to be. He'd rather be wrapped in the arms of his mother's best friend who seduces him during his mother's wake. Torn between two lovers, the other being Mrs. Robinson's daughter, Elaine, Hoffman's character...