How to Make an American 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. She goes home to her grandmother, where, over the making of her wedding gift by a group of quilting-bee friends, laughter, bickering, love, and advice lead her toward a more open-eyed examination of her course
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Title: How to Make an American Quilt
Release Date: 1995
Genres: Drama, Romance
- Directors: Moorhouse, Jocelyn
- Actors:
- Ryder, Winona as Finn Dodd
- Bancroft, Anne as Glady Joe Cleary
- Burstyn, Ellen as Hy Dodd
- Nelligan, Kate as Constance Saunders
- Woodard, Alfre as Marianna
- Craddick, Kaelynn as Young Finn
- Craddick, Sara as Young Finn
- Capshaw, Kate as Sally, Finn’’s Mother
- Baldwin, Adam as Finn’’s Father
- Mulroney, Dermot as Sam
- Angelou, Maya as Anna
- Smith, Lois as Sophia Darling Richards
- Simmons, Jean as Em Reed
- Arndt, Denis as James
- Torn, Rip as Arthur Cleary