Filmmaker Peter Hedges stirs the family plot in this pithy, sweet glimpse into one distraught family's last Thanksgiving together. In tone, it most resembles Jodie Foster's edgy "Home for the Holidays" with its humorous, grainy take on American family life. Playing as a Dramatic Competition entrant, this warm and scruffy film may strike some as a mere period piece, but it's juiced with recognizable family trauma and garnished with a quirky sensibility -- it's the portrait of a group of people we come to care about.

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