Joy has late-stage breast cancer and is undergoing chemotherapy, so April has offered to host Thanksgiving at her lowly apartment in the city. April is estranged from her exceedingly flawed family, including her mom Joy (Patricia Clarkson), who has resented her for years, her dad Jim (Oliver Platt), the only person who ever has anything nice to say about her, her younger sister Beth (Alison Pill), and her younger brother Timmy (John Gallagher Jr.). He also wrote the screenplay for this film, and also wrote the Oscar-nominated script for 2002's "About a Boy." This story revolves around the previously mentioned April Burns (Katie Holmes), a woman who lives in a tiny, terrible apartment with her boyfriend Bobby (Derek Luke) in a bad neighborhood in the heart of New York City. "Pieces of April" is directed by Peter Hedges in his directorial debut. If Twitter existed in 2003, April Burns surely would have been the winner that year. In recent years, it has become a"bit" to trade Thanksgiving day horror stories with other users online who probably had it worse. "They're probably not even going to come." (Image Source) In an effort to reconnect with her estranged, dysfunctional, complicated family, April Burns has offered to host Thanksgiving dinner at her small apartment in a not-so-great neighborhood in New York City.
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