Novelist and screenwriter Peter Hedges makes his directorial debut with the comedy drama Pieces of April . Family outcast April Burns ( Katie Holmes ) lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby ( Derek Luke ). In order to spend some time with her dying mother, Joy ( Patricia Clarkson ), April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. She discovers that her oven is broken the morning of the big day, so she goes around her tenement building trying to find a sympathetic neighbor with a working oven. Though she doesn't know them, neighbors Eugene ( Isiah Whitlock ) and Evette ( Lillias White ) offer the use of their oven, but only for an hour. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Dad Jim ( Oliver Platt ) tries to think positively, while daughter Beth ( Alison Pill ) flaunts her good-girl status and son Timmy ( John Gallagher Jr. ) captures it all on film. Shot with digital video, Pieces of April is a project of the Independent Film Channel's InDigEnt production company. — Andrea LeVasseur
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Katie Holmes | April Burns |
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Derek Luke | Bobby |
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Oliver Platt | Jim Burns |
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Alison Pill | Beth Burns |
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John Gallagher Jr. | Timmy Burns |
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Patricia Clarkson | Joy Burns |
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Alice Drummond | Grandma Dottie |
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Vitali Baganov | Half Asleep Man |
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Lillias White | Evette |
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Isiah Whitlock Jr. | Eugene |
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Adrian Martinez | Man in Mohair Sweater |
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Susan Bruce | Tish |
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Jamari Richardson | Boy on Bicycle |
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Leila Danette | Woman in Stairwell |
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Stephen Chen | Lee Loung Tan |
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Sally Leung Bayer | Lee Quong Tan |
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Sean Hayes | Wayne |
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Sisqó | Latrell |
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Marcus Lovett | Parade Announcer |
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Jack Chen | Lee Quong |
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Jacqueline Dai | Lee Lang |
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Rosa Luo | Lee Wai Yam |
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Birdie M. Hale | Woman Outside Bodega |
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Armando Riesco | Tyrone |
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Christine Todino | Waitress |
| Director | Peter Hedges |
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| Writer | Peter Hedges | |
| Producer | Alexis Alexanian, Lucy Barzun Donnelly, Dianne Dreyer, Caroline Kaplan, John S. Lyons, Jonathan Sehring, John Sloss, Lucille Smith, Gary Winick | |
| Musician | Stephin Merritt | |
| Photography | Tami Reiker | |
| Packaging | Keep Case |
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| Nr Discs | 1 |
| Screen Ratios | Anamorphic Widescreen (1.85:1) |
| Audio Tracks | ENGLISH: Dolby Digital 5.1 FRENCH: Dolby Digital 5.1 |
| Subtitles | English | English (Closed Captioned) | French | Spanish |
| Distributor | MGM Home Entertainment |
| Layers | Single side, Dual layer |
| Edition Release Date | Feb 24, 2004 |
| Regions | 1 |