How to Make an American Quilt PG-13
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DVD Details
- Rated: PG-13
- Run Time: 1 hours, 57 minutes
- Video: Color
- Encoding: Region 1 (USA & Canada)
- Released: February 23, 1999
- Originally Released: 1995
- Label: Universal Studios
Performers, Cast and Crew:
Starring | Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan & Alfre Woodard | |
Performer: | Dermot Mulroney, Maya Angelou, Kate Capshaw, Loren Dean, Samantha Mathis, Derrick O'Connor, Claire Danes, Jared Leto, Jean Simmons, Lois Smith, Rip Torn, Mykelti Williamson, Johnathon Schaech, Adam Baldwin, Alicia Goranson, Esther Rolle, Richard Jenkins & Holland Taylor | |
Directed by | Jocelyn Moorhouse | |
Edited by | Jill Bilcock | |
Screenplay by | Jane Anderson | |
Composition by | Thomas Newman | |
Produced by | Sarah Pillsbury & Midge Sanford | |
Director of Photography: | Janusz Kaminski |
Entertainment Reviews:
It has its effective moments but it tends to indicate emotions more than deliver them, and is finally more conventional and unadventurous than its elements would lead you to believe.
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Los Angeles Times
Rating: 2/5 --
winona spoils the lovely vignettes
Cinerina
Dramatically, more ultimately proves less, and the jumble feels like it should have been torn apart and rethreaded with stronger material.
Variety
Rating: 4/4 --
Flat out, "How to Make an American Quilt" is a wonderful movie -- soulful, funny, eccentric and filled with a love of female humanity.
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San Francisco Chronicle
This exceptional film takes the makings of a limp "women's weeper" and as if by magic, spins them into gold.
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New York Times
Even rough, tough boys will be seduced by this immensely likeable film.
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Film4
Rating: 2/4 --
The stories are uninvolving, often too brief, and they quickly grow tiresome and repetitive.
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TheMovieReport.com
Product Description:
Director Jocelyn Moorhouse's film adaptation of the novel by Whitney Otto stars Winona Ryder as Finn Dodd, a Berkeley graduate student on summer hiatus at her grandmother's home to work on her thesis and ponder a marriage proposal from her boyfriend, Sam (Dermot Mulroney). Finn's grandma, Hy (Ellen Burstyn), lives with her great aunt, Glady Jo (Anne Bancroft), at their idyllic Northern California home. The two fiery women meet with seven older female relatives and close friends for a regular quilting bee, led by Anna (Maya Angelou). Over the course of the summer, Finn contemplates her future while gaining insight into love and relationships from the different members of the quilting bee. Their experiences are brought to life as each woman shares a unique tale with the confused young woman. The interwoven memories of each sage member of the quilting bee--including Constance (Kate Nelligan); Anna's daughter, Mariana (Alfre Woodard); and Finn's free-spirited mother, Sally (Kate Capshaw)--become lessons in love, pain, and emotional growth for Finn as the women work to make her wedding quilt. Each memory becomes a vivid flashback subtly weaving the past and present together to create a colorful collection of stories, featuring young stars including Claire Danes and Samantha Mathis as the individual women in their youth. A tribute to women's friendship and camaraderie, HOW TO MAKE AN AMERICAN QUILT shines with a cast of all-star actresses.