PIECES OF APRIL
Thursday & Friday, Feb. 26 & 27 -- 7pm & 9pm

Winner of the Special Jury Prize at Sundance
Katie Holmes is outstanding as the title character in Peter Hedges's PIECES OF APRIL. Holmes stars as April Burns, the black sheep of her family who has left suburbia for a Lower East Side tenement. Hedges's directorial debut, following screenplays for WHAT'S EATING GILBERT GRAPE, ABOUT A BOY, and A MAP OF THE WORLD, is well-paced and fun to watch. The soundtrack features music by Stephen Merritt with the 6ths and Magnetic Fields. US, 2003, color, 81 mins., PG-13.