Daily Dialogue — November 27, 2010

“This way, instead of April showing up with some new piercing or some ugly new tattoo and, God forbid, staying overnight, this way, we get to show up, experience the disaster that is her life, smile through it, and before you know it, we’re on our way back home.”

 — Joy Burns (Patricia Clarkson), Pieces of April (2003), written and directed by Peter Hedges

The Daily Dialogue theme this week is Thanksgiving. 

Trivia: One of the inspirations for the movie came from a story Peter Hedges had heard about a group of young adults who had “borrowed” an apartment so they could celebrate their first Thanksgiving in Manhattan together. The oven in the apartment did not work so they had to go door to door in the building, trying to find an oven in which to cook their turkey.