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How to Make an American Quilt

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How to Make an American Quilt
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PG13,1hr 56min
Genre:
Drama
Release:
1995
Director:
Jocelyn Moorhouse
Distributor:
Universal Studios
Starring:
Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Maya Angelou  ...more
Synopsis: A young woman at a crossroads in her life finds herself receiving plenty of advice from her older and wiser counterparts in this drama. Finn Dodd (Winona Ryder) is a graduate student trying to finish up her doctoral thesis on women's folk art while deciding if she should marry her fiancé Sam (Dermot Mulroney); she's not sure if she's ready to settle down, and suspects that Sam is unfaithful to her. Needing time to sort things out, Finn chooses to spend the summer with her grandmother Hy (Ellen Burstyn) ... Full Synopsis
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Derek Armstrong, AMG Review
How to Make an American Quilt is a pleasing, sisters-through-the-generations tableau that, not surprisingly, weaves together stories like panels on the titular fabric. Perhaps too obvious in its metaphors and methods, the film executes them well enough to make it a fond celebration of womanhood. Although the variety of grand dames who take their place around the quilt (Maya Angelou, Ellen Burstyn, ... Full Review
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Winona Ryder
Finn Dodd
Anne Bancroft
Glady Jo, Finn's great aunt
Maya Angelou
Anna
Ellen Burstyn
Hy (Finn's grandmother)
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