8:48 A.M.
I rented "Pieces Of April" last night.
It was a damn amazing movie.
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I considered renting, "The Secretary", like T had suggested, but when I picked up the video in the store I realized it was a sex-flick.
Just what I need.
Or not!
It's bad enough that I'm not getting any. I don't need to watch other people getting it.
So instead I rented "Pieces Of April".
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Katy Holmes plays the lead role. She's the black sheep in her family and she lives with her boyfriend in a crappy apartment in New York City. She has never met any of her neighbors, nor did she really care....
It's Thanksgiving and she has invited her parents up for Thanksgiving dinner as a peace offering. She�s never been close with her family but this is her last chance to reconcile because her mother is dying of cancer.
Katy Holmes has no clue how to cook and her boyfriend helps her prep. A turkey. She sends her boyfriend off to find some nice clothes, and after he leaves she realized that she truly needs his help. She has no clue what she's doing in the kitchen.
When the oven turns out to be broken she freaks out.
She goes door to door in her apartment building trying to find someone who will let her borrow their oven.
She finally finds a place, but she has to tell her life story to a woman just to borrow her oven. The woman generously offers her oven and even shows Katy how to make homemade cranberry sauce so that Katy wont have to serve the crap out of the can.
The woman with the oven soon tells Katy that she will have to find another oven in the building to finish the turkey because they have to start their own dinner.
Katy goes knocking on doors once again trying to find another oven.
You watch as she frantically tries to bring the holiday together in a desperate attempt to reconcile with her mother.
She eventually finds an oven to borrow, but she has to deal with some freak who lives up a few flights of stairs. He turns out to be a nutcase and takes her turkey hostage, because he feels that he has not received his due rewards.
She calls the cops to report a turkey hostage crisis and they laugh at her.
Somehow she gets her turkey back and takes it out into the hallway where she cries.
After sobbing in the hall, this family comes along to help save the day. Katy doesn't even speak the same language as the wonderful family who saves her turkey, but somehow it all works out.
While the turkey cooks, she sets up place settings for her family and carefully decorates the old dingy apartment.
Her boyfriend finds a suit at a thrift store, and gets the crap kicked out of him.
On his way home he notices that the girls parents have finally showed. He invites them in and they freak out because he has blood spilling from his face.
Her parents show up at the complex thinking that their daughter is crap and they leave before even saying hello.
The mother goes into the bathroom of the restaurant and has a "moment of clarity" where she realizes she is being selfish and the family makes it back to their daughters place.
At this point Katy�s character has given up on her family, so she invites the neighbors over who had helped her with her Thanksgiving dinner. Her own family shows up and they take snap shots for the final few moments of the film.
The ending is actually a tearjerker, and hit closer to home than expected.
You realize that no matter how much goes wrong in your life, it doesn�t change the fact that life is too short to hold grudges.
It's a bit slow at points, but is a definite, MUST SEE!
(If you like the independent flicks)
