Katie Holmes stars in Pieces of April
Nina Caplan|Metro5 April 2012
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Katie Holmes is the rebellious youngster determined to show her difficult family she can go it alone by making them Thanksgiving dinner.

What could have been a twee homily is saved by humour, digital camerawork and Patricia Clarkson's Oscar-nominated performance as Holmes's mother, whose terminal breast cancer has sharpened her personality to a knifepoint.

As Holmes wrestles with a ton of turkey and a broken oven, her parents, neurotic siblings and demented grandmother squash into the car for the journey to her grungy pad... unlikely comedy but good, poignant fun.

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