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...April Burns (played with unassuming grace by Katie Holmes), armed with the emotional support of her affectionate boyfriend (Derek Luke), embarks on a mishap-filled day of cooking and decoration to prepare her humble New York apartment for a Thanksgiving dinner with her estranged family (headed by Oliver Platt and Patricia Clarkson). Pieces of April showcases homegrown storytelling at its best and marks a strong directorial debut by Peter Hedges (the screenwriter behind About...
...April Burns (played with unassuming grace by Katie Holmes), armed with the emotional support of her affectionate boyfriend (Derek Luke), embarks on a mishap-filled day of cooking and decoration to prepare her humble New York apartment for a Thanksgiving dinner with her estranged family (headed by Oliver Platt and Patricia Clarkson). Pieces of April showcases homegrown storytelling at its best and marks a strong directorial debut by Peter Hedges (the screenwriter behind About...
...estranged sister, daughter and granddaughter. Along the comic journey, we get to know Joy (played at the perfect acerbic pitch by Patricia Clarkson), April’s hypercritical and sardonic breast cancer-stricken mother who smokes pot and poses nude for her son; Jim (played with understatement by Oliver Platt), April’s eternally tolerant father and the only family member to have drip of genuine expectations and hope for a pleasant Thanksgiving; the under-appreciated overachieving dream-daughter, Beth (Alison Pill); spacey Grandma Dottie (Alice Drummond); and April’s camera click-happy brother Timmy (John Gallagher...
...retiree who has adjusted to a surprisingly different direction while resolving the issues of ego and overidentification with his previous career is John Platt of Hilton Head, S.C. Platt was a surgeon in Tennessee for nearly 40 years and then an outpatient physician at a veterans' hospital on Parris Island, N.C., for an additional 10. Now, at 85, he works four days a week in the garden shop of the Hilton Head Wal-Mart, operating a forklift and keeping computerized accounts of stock. Always a plant lover, he shrugs off the unlikeliness of the job. "I didn't compare...
...will be theoretical, discussing the difference between the organization of a university and the organization of a bureaucratic or hierarchie institution. The other will be a description and analysis of the academic profession "by people who are in it rather than by people writing for the Atlantic Monthly," Platt said...