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How to Make an American Quilt received mixed reviews from critics. It holds a 63% rating on Rotten Tomatoes based on 35 reviews, with an average rating of 6/10. The site's consensus states: "How to Make an American Quilt is a bit of a patchwork from a storytelling standpoint, but a strong ensemble cast led by Winona Ryder helps hold it all ...
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 bit of a patchwork from a storytelling standpoint, but a strong ensemble cast led by Winona Ryder helps hold it all together. Read Critics Reviews.
Oct 6, 1995 · "How to Make an American Quilt" begins with the words, "For as long as I can remember . . ." These words, which open a good many nostalgic memoirs, invariably mean that things have gone on in the same way for years and years, but that now everything is about to change. The narrator is Finn (Winona Ryder), a Berkeley student who has returned to her family's roots to spend a last summer before ...
Her Grandmother's home (an old country mansion surrounded by orchards) actually belongs to Grandmother's sister, Glady Joe, but Grandmother moved in with the sister after her husband died. When Finn arrives she finds a quilting bee group there working on a patchwork quilt. This group has for years been working on quilts together.
How to Make an American Quilt 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. 1,324 IMDb 6.3 1 h 56 min 1995
As the quilt nears completion, Finn realizes that the gift they've given her is far greater than anything counted in stitches. Maya Angelou, Kate Nelligan, Jean Simmons, Lois Smith, Alfre Woodard, Dermot Mulroney, Samantha Mathis, Claire Danes and Jared Leto co-star in this triumphant and funny film based on the best-selling novel by Whitney Otto.
