Winona Ryder
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How to Make an American Quilt: Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse. With Kaelynn Craddick, Sara Craddick, Kate Capshaw, Adam Baldwin. Bride-to-be Finn Dodd hears tales of romance and sorrow from her elders as they construct a quilt.
How to Make an American Quilt is a 1995 American drama film based on the 1991 novel of the same name by Whitney Otto. Directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse, the film features Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan and Alfre Woodard. It is notable as being Jared Leto's film debut.
Jocelyn Moorhouse's indie romance drama How to Make an American Quilt (1995) gives numerous heartbreaking romance drama stories with an endearing feminist appeal.
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As the women quilt, they remember stories from their own younger years, and as they share them with Finn, we see many of them in flashback. They all have a common theme, which will not come as a surprise: to one's own heart be true.
Bride-to-be Finn Dodd hears tales of romance and sorrow from her elders as they construct a quilt. Finn is a young graduate student, finishing a master's thesis, and preparing for marriage to her fiance Sam. But thoughts of the end of the free life, and a potential summer fling, intrude.
How To Make An American Quilt is the story of eight women living in the small mythical California town of Grasse who meet once a week to quilt.
Oct 6, 1995 · Insightful, deeply moving and touchingly funny, How To Make An American Quilt explores the rich subject of how women love men. The challenges involved in making a quilt are not so different from those faced by lovers—with each love we hope to find the perfect union.
As a granddaughter prepares for marriage, a group of women sew profound stories of love into a quilt in this drama based on the novel. 1,326 IMDb 6.3 1 h 56 min 1995. X-Ray PG-13.
As they gather to make her wedding quilt, the women tell Finn the stories of the loves that shaped their lives. Tales of true love, betrayal, joy and heartbreak come to life in scenes which span from 1860 to the present, each story as individual as the women themselves.
How to Make an American Quilt. In this heartwarming story about listening to your heart, Winona Ryder stars as Finn, a graduate student who decides to spend a summer away from her boyfriend at the home of her grandmother (Ellen Burstyn) and great aunt (Anne Bancroft).
