Unique story about a family headed to their horrible daughter/sister's for Thanksgiving in New York City. Patricia Clarkson is amazing.

It captures a certain intangible spirit of the Thanksgiving holiday (understanding that life is fleeting and yet quietly beautiful. For that we should be thankful) and yeah Patricia Clarkson is just incredible here.

This is the funniest movie I have seen in forever! If April's turkey and meal prep doesn't have you wailing in both pain and laughter...you have never cooked a Thanksgiving meal! If somehow you find my "needle in a haystack " review, get this for Thanksgiving and family healing (thankfully, my family is wonderful)!

I seem to vaguely remember another movie about a family riding around in a car.

The dialogue was sparsely lacking to draw me in to this family's dysfunctional world. For me, it was a vapid and overall unpleasant experience.

Dysfunctional family Thanksgiving is on deck as prodigal daughter played by Katie Holmes decides to host her parents and siblings for Thanksgiving at her and her boyfriend's seedy New York apartment building. Great ensemble cast and performances by Patricia Clarkson, Oliver Platt, Derek Luke and more. Short run time ensures it doesn't wear out its welcome.

It took me a little while to catch on to this somewhat low key, low budget film. Surprisingly, it was worth my initial disorientation and doubt. It's a very genuine movie, beautifully lacking all of the usual Hollywood pretense. Once I caught on to its subtleties, it turned out to be a real gem (watch it right before Thanksgiving)!

I almost stopped watching, but the movie reeled me in. What a little gem! I know it came out almost 20 years ago and this commentary is equivalent to a tree falling in the woods, but I would argue that most families at some point in their evolution, struggle through holidays, members bring baggage to what ends up being a two hour sit-down dinner, and this movie encapsulates the drama of the event quite well. Loved all the actors in their characters (the casting was remarkable, in hindsight), loved the many threads woven into one textured piece, and thought it worth cobbling a few words of praise.

Mehhhhhh . Just so boring and not really lesson teaching 1.9

The unexpected holiday treat is effectively simplistic, defined by a creatively fitting cinematographic aesthetic and relatable performances enabling empathy through the characters' dysfunctional range of cynical doubt, supportive care, and honorable determination, as the latter was delivered by Holmes' convicted performance being her more definitively memorable best whilst embracing the truer sense of bloodless familial surrounding like a subtle commentary on community. (B+)

I cannot even come close to expressing how much I dislike this movie. It was a garbage movie with a stupid protagonist who I haven't even the slightest idea of how she got by in the adult world, considering she doesn't even know that you need to boil potatoes to make mashed potatoes, topped with a self centred bitch-of-a-mother who made the entire road-trip and Thanksgiving dinner about herself and only herself.

An emotionally explosive micro-budget gem from the early noughts, this is a Thanksgiving movie with familial turmoil at its core, but sweet intentions on the side.

I fell in love with this movie immediately! I watch it every Thanksgiving.

This is discrimination on women in the ghetto that says they have no clue about cooking. I think if you live in the ghetto and don't have much money, you most likely know how to cook because you do not have money to eat out all the time. Just do a simple search on your phone and you find an easy recipe to cook for you. Very ugly lies about poor people. In truth it's rich people that usually are clueless about cooking because they eat out all the time. What a bunch of lies...

One of the rare times I loved the performances and didn't care much for the film.

É tão comovente que me faz querer sair abraçando todo mundo.

Kate Holmes is excellent! This is such a moving little indie film. I can relate to this film as far as having an estranged family growing up from the suburbs, having to be the scapegoat of the family and living in an opposite type of neighborhood. She was brave to invite her estrange family even with all the obstacles she had to endure with the preparations of dinner in the name of her Mother dying of cancer. It's the percect example of a Thanksgiving dinner with family imperfections.

Katie did a good job & her mom. That's real life - with a good ending. I did that years ago.

I watched it in 30 minutes.

Really really touching and real movie, one of my favs!