“Pieces of
April” is an American family drama and independent movie about a girl called
April Burns, the eldest daughter of a broken family. She lives together with
her boyfriend in a small apartment in New York. She invites her entire family
to a Thanksgiving dinner and tries her best to prepare enjoyable dishes. The
main point of this movie is about her mother who suffers from breast cancer and
this might be her last Thanksgiving.
Katie Holmes
plays the lead, April Burns, and acts in the role of a punk, tattooed and
pierced girl. She does a good job of a misunderstood daughter, trying
desperately to make her family proud without any clue of how to cook a
Thanksgiving dinner. However, the preparations pass off with a lot of
complications. The major problem for April is to cook the turkey after her oven
stops working. She has some troubles finishing her work till she gets help from
a Chinese family one floor above her.
At the end
of this movie the actual atmosphere of the movie changes absolutely from
stress, illness, hate, misfortune to love, acceptance, forgiveness and
gratitude to each other. Thus, this film is about second chances and problem
solving.
The movie
shows how important it is to have family and to share your life with them.
The acting
of this movie is quite good, and I like the interactions between the totally
diverse people living in April´s building. But I couldn´t follow the idea of
her family to pay a visit to their daughter for Thanksgiving because the first
impression the movie provides is that the majority of her family hates her.
They had a long drive to come to her apartment. Nevertheless, the movie doesn´t
answer this question by giving no intentions of her family´s purposes.
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