Grandma's quilting bee is sewing a "wedding quilt," and the bride-to-be is soaking up the romantic knowledge and wisdom of the various members. The episodic flashbacks (most of them populated by younger actresses difficult to match up with the rememberers) are underdeveloped individually, and the total sum seems small, though the emerging quilt makes a workable metaphor for the value of the long-labored-over relationship. Director Jocelyn Moorhouse, an Australian, brings a warm feminine eye for clothes, curtains, wallpaper, and the like, and there are fine quiet moments of stifled pain from Ellen Burstyn and Alfre Woodard, and a fine quiet moment of enlightened acceptance from Jean Simmons (more the director's moment than the actress's). Based on the novel by Whitney Otto; screenplay by Jane Anderson; with Winona Ryder, Anne Bancroft, Kate Nelligan, Maya Angelou, Lois Smith, Samantha Mathis, Kate Capshaw, Rip Torn, Dermot Mulroney. (1995) — Duncan Shepherd
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