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A 1995 drama film adapted from Whitney Otto's novel of the same name, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and featuring an ensemble cast including Creator/WinonaRyder, Creator/AnneBancroft, Creator/EllenBurstyn, Kate Nelligan, Creator/KateNelligan, Creator/AlfreWoodard, Creator/MayaAngelou, Creator/SamanthaMathis, Creator/DermotMulroney, Creator/RipTorn, Creator/ClaireDanes, and Creator/MykeltiWilliamson.
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* MixedAncestry: Marianna is half-Black on Anna's side and half-white on from her missing father's.
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A 1995 drama film adapted from Whitney Otto's novel of the same name, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and featuring an ensemble cast including Creator/WinonaRyder, Creator/AnneBancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Creator/AlfreWoodard, Creator/MayaAngelou, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Rip Torn, Creator/ClaireDanes, and Creator/MykeltiWilliamson.
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A 1995 drama film adapted from Whitney Otto's novel of the same name, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and featuring an ensemble cast including Creator/WinonaRyder, Creator/AnneBancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Creator/AlfreWoodard, Maya Angelou, Creator/MayaAngelou, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Rip Torn, Creator/ClaireDanes, and Creator/MykeltiWilliamson.
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* YourCheatingHeart:
** Dean constantly cheated on Em throughout their relationship, even after they were married.
** Hy also sleeps with Glady's husband.
** Finn gives into her attraction with Leon and sleeps with him. Her mother advises Finn to never tell Sam.
** Dean constantly cheated on Em throughout their relationship, even after they were married.
** Hy also sleeps with Glady's husband.
** Finn gives into her attraction with Leon and sleeps with him. Her mother advises Finn to never tell Sam.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: While many of the marriages had issues, Sophia's was particularly bad. Her husband was always flitting off for work, leaving her all alone to raise their baby.
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* AbusiveParents:
** Sophia's mother was emotionally abusive, stating she wasn't pretty enough to be single.
** Sophia herself was a mild version of this to her eldest daughter when she discouraged the latter from going to college and that her younger brother should go. When her daughter calls out the hypocrisy, Sophia simply states that life isn't fair.
* AmicableExes: Finn's parents divorced and she narrates that they were still best friends. In the present, Finn's mother reveals that she and Finn's father plan to remarry.
* AwfulWeddedLife: While many of the marriages had issues, Sophia's was particularly bad. Her husband was always flitting off for work, leaving her all alone to raise their baby. Then, just up and left for good.
** Sophia's mother was emotionally abusive, stating she wasn't pretty enough to be single.
** Sophia herself was a mild version of this to her eldest daughter when she discouraged the latter from going to college and that her younger brother should go. When her daughter calls out the hypocrisy, Sophia simply states that life isn't fair.
* AmicableExes: Finn's parents divorced and she narrates that they were still best friends. In the present, Finn's mother reveals that she and Finn's father plan to remarry.
* AwfulWeddedLife: While many of the marriages had issues, Sophia's was particularly bad. Her husband was always flitting off for work, leaving her all alone to raise their baby. Then, just up and left for good.
* BettyAndVeronica: Finn is an official relationship with her fiancé Sam but is having some CommitmentIssues and begins to develop an intense attraction to the mysterious and charming Leon. She has a brief fling with Leon but ultimately marries Sam.
* CommitmentIssues: Finn can't pick a topic to write for her thesis and constantly keeps changing. And Sam suspects this because she wanted to go stay with her grandmother and great aunt after he proposed. Her mother reasons out that Finn is just afraid.
* CommitmentIssues: Finn can't pick a topic to write for her thesis and constantly keeps changing. And Sam suspects this because she wanted to go stay with her grandmother and great aunt after he proposed. Her mother reasons out that Finn is just afraid.
* DisappearedDad:
** Downplayed with Finn. She knows who her father is but didn't have much contact with him during her childhood.
** Marianna never met her father who impregnated Anna.
* DoubleStandard: Sophia wanted to send her and Preston's younger son to college despite the fact their eldest daughter wanted to go and was the eldest.
** Downplayed with Finn. She knows who her father is but didn't have much contact with him during her childhood.
** Marianna never met her father who impregnated Anna.
* DoubleStandard: Sophia wanted to send her and Preston's younger son to college despite the fact their eldest daughter wanted to go and was the eldest.
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* JerkassWoobie: Sophia is bitter and has made Finn cry in the past, but the only reason she's like this is because of her bad marriage.
* MistakenForCheating: People think that Dean and Constance are sleeping together since they'd been spending time together after Howell died. While Dean offered, Constance said no.
* MistakenForCheating: People think that Dean and Constance are sleeping together since they'd been spending time together after Howell died. While Dean offered, Constance said no.
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* JerkassWoobie: Sophia is bitter LadykillerInLove: A gender-flipped example. Marianna had many lovers but believed she met her OneTrueLove while in Paris. However, he mentioned he was married and has made she never got his name.
* TheLostLenore:
** Hy had a deep love for her dying husband and only slept with Joe's husband out of impulse and sadness.
** Constance had a similar deep love for her dead husband, Howell.
* AMinorKidroduction: The movie begins showing the child Finncry in while the past, but the only reason she's like this is because of her bad marriage.
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*MistakenForCheating: MistakenForCheating:
** People think that Dean and Constance are sleeping together since they'd been spending time together after Howell died. While Dean offered, Constance saidno.no.
** Finn thinks Sam was having an affair when she dialed their number only for a woman to answer. It turns out he was staying with his brother because of plumbing issues in the house. Also, it's reasoned that Finn accidentally called the wrong number.
* {{Nephewism}}:
** Downplayed with Finn, as her mother would leave her in the care of her maternal grandmother and great aunt when she was with one of her boyfriends.
** Played straight with Anna, whose personal flashback shows her being raised by her aunt.
* NoAntagonist: There's no BigBad in the film. Just people dealing with their own past shames and regrets.
* MixedAncestry: Marianna is half-Black on Anna's side and half-white on from her missing father's.
* TheLostLenore:
** Hy had a deep love for her dying husband and only slept with Joe's husband out of impulse and sadness.
** Constance had a similar deep love for her dead husband, Howell.
* AMinorKidroduction: The movie begins showing the child Finn
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** People think that Dean and Constance are sleeping together since they'd been spending time together after Howell died. While Dean offered, Constance said
** Finn thinks Sam was having an affair when she dialed their number only for a woman to answer. It turns out he was staying with his brother because of plumbing issues in the house. Also, it's reasoned that Finn accidentally called the wrong number.
* {{Nephewism}}:
** Downplayed with Finn, as her mother would leave her in the care of her maternal grandmother and great aunt when she was with one of her boyfriends.
** Played straight with Anna, whose personal flashback shows her being raised by her aunt.
* NoAntagonist: There's no BigBad in the film. Just people dealing with their own past shames and regrets.
* MixedAncestry: Marianna is half-Black on Anna's side and half-white on from her missing father's.
* ParentalNeglect: Finn's mother would often leave a young Finn in the care of Hy and Joe while she was with one of her boyfriends.
* RaisedByGrandparents: Downplayed. Finn had both her parents but her mother left her in the care of her maternal grandmother and great-aunt at times
* RaisedByGrandparents: Downplayed. Finn had both her parents but her mother left her in the care of her maternal grandmother and great-aunt at times
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A 1995 drama film adapted from Whitney Otto's novel of the same name, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and featuring an ensemble cast including Creator/WinonaRyder, Anne Bancroft, Creator/AnneBancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Creator/AlfreWoodard, Maya Angelou, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Rip Torn, Creator/ClaireDanes, and Creator/MykeltiWilliamson.
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Finn Dodd (Ryder) is a young graduate student, finishing a master's thesis and preparing for marriage to her fiancé Sam (Mulroney). 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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Finn Dodd (Ryder) is a young graduate student, finishing a master's thesis and preparing for marriage to her fiancé Sam (Mulroney). But thoughts of the end of the free life, and a potential summer fling, intrude. She goes home to her grandmother, where, where -- over the making of her wedding gift by a group of quilting-bee friends, friends -- laughter, bickering, love, and advice lead her toward a more open-eyed examination of her course.
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A 1995 drama film adapted from Whitney Otto's novel of the same name, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and featuring an ensemble cast including Creator/WinonaRyder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Kate Nelligan, Creator/AlfreWoodard, Maya Angelou, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Rip Torn, Creator/ClaireDanes, and Creator/MykeltiWilliamson.
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** Hy also sleeps with Glady's husband.husband.
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A 1995 drama film adapted from Whitney Otto's novel of the same name, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and featuring an ensemble cast including Creator/WinonaRyder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Creator/AlfreWoodard, Maya Angelou, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Rip Torn, Creator/ClareDanes, Creator/ClaireDanes, and Creator/MykeltiWilliamson.
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A 1995 drama film adapted from Whitney Otto's novel of the same name, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and featuring an AllStarCast ensemble cast including Creator/WinonaRyder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Creator/AlfreWoodard, Maya Angelou, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Rip Torn, Creator/ClareDanes, and Creator/MykeltiWilliamson.
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A 1995 drama film adapted from Whitney Otto's novel of the same name, directed by Jocelyn Moorhouse and featuring an AllStarCast including Creator/WinonaRyder, Anne Bancroft, Ellen Burstyn, Creator/AlfreWoodard, Maya Angelou, Samantha Mathis, Dermot Mulroney, Rip Torn, and Creator/MykeltiWilliamson.
Finn Dodd (Ryder) is a young graduate student, finishing a master'sthesis, thesis and preparing for marriage to her fiance Sam.fiancé Sam (Mulroney). 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.
Finn Dodd (Ryder) is a young graduate student, finishing a master's
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* TheAntoner: Hy after she sleeps with Glady's husband.
* CoolBigSis: Marianna is this for Finn.
* CoolBigSis: Marianna is this for Finn.
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* YourCheatingHeart: Dean.
** Hy also sleeps with Glady's husband.
** Hy also sleeps with Glady's husband.
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* OneTrueLove: Marianna believes that the man she met in Paris is her soul mate.
* ReallyGetsAround: Marianna has had many lovers.
* StrawFeminist: Finn, at one point.
* ReallyGetsAround: Marianna has had many lovers.
* StrawFeminist: Finn, at one point.
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* MistakenForCheating: People think that Dean and Constance are sleeping together since they'd been spending time together after Howell died. While Dean offered, Constance said no.
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* AwfulWeddedLife: While many of the marriages had issues, Sophia's was particularly bad. Her husband was always flitting off for work, leaving her all alone to raise their baby.
* HappilyMarried: Constance and Howell are probably the only couple whose relationship wasn't screwed up. They were very happy together. Until he died, leaving her a widow.
* StrawFeminist: Finn, at point.
* HappilyMarried: Constance and Howell are probably the only couple whose relationship wasn't screwed up. They were very happy together. Until he died, leaving her a widow.
* StrawFeminist: Finn, at point.
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