
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.... (Full plot summary below)
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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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| Spirituality and PracticeFrederic and Mary Ann BrussatCommends the value of women sharing their stories and secrets across generational lines. |
| Washington PostLinton WeeksAnderson has written a confident screenplay; the result is a warm, comforting movie for sisters and daughters and mothers and aunts. And for the men who love them. |
| San Francisco ExaminerBarbara ShulgasserWhere Moorhouse could have veered toward the overwrought and sentimental, a la "Fried Green Tomatoes," she steers the movie through the more believable middle ground of genuine emotion. |
| Common Sense MediaHeather BoernerRollicking, soap-like tale of women's love lives. |
| Entertainment WeeklyBruce FrettsDespite a few threadbare patches, How to Make an American Quilt hangs together nicely. |
| Los Angeles TimesKenneth TuranIt has its effective moments but it tends to indicate emotions more than deliver them, and is finally more conventional and unadventurous than its elements would lead you to believe. |
| TheMovieReport.comMichael DequinaThe stories are uninvolving, often too brief, and they quickly grow tiresome and repetitive. |
| VarietyLeonard KladyDramatically, more ultimately proves less, and the jumble feels like it should have been torn apart and rethreaded with stronger material. |
| New York TimesCaryn JamesThis exceptional film takes the makings of a limp "women's weeper" and as if by magic, spins them into gold. |
| User ReviewGunilla WI absolutely adore this flim about women, love, coping and commitment |