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Katie Holmes: April Burns
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Katie Holmes is outstanding as the title character in Peter Hedges' PIECES OF APRIL. Holmes stars as April Burns, the black sheep of her family who has left suburbia for a Lower East Side tenement.
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In Abandon (2002), written by Oscar winner Stephen Gaghan, Holmes was a delusional, homicidal college student named "Katie." Todd McCarthy of Variety and Roger Ebert commended her performance,[59] but other critics and audiences savaged it.[60] The actress played the mistress of the public relations flack played by Colin Farrell in Phone Booth (2002) and Robert Downey, Jr.'s nurse in The Singing Detective (2003). Holmes's next starring role was in Pieces of April (2003), a gritty comedy about a dysfunctional family on Thanksgiving. Variety said it was "one of her best film performances."[61] "Each actor shines", wrote Elvis Mitchell, "even Ms. Holmes, whose beauty seems to have fogged the minds of her previous directors" in playing "a brat who is slaving to find her inner decency and barely has the equipment for such an achievement, let alone to serve a meal whose salmonella potential could claim an entire borough. Yet it is her surliness, as well as her intransigent determination to make Thanksgiving work, that keeps the laughs coming."[62]
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After hosting Saturday Night Live in February of 2001, Katie became Colin Farrell's mistress, Pamela McFadden, in Joel Schumacher's thriller Phone Booth (2002... starring Kiefer Sutherland). She also nabbed the lead role of an under-pressure, elite college senior Katie Burke, in the horror drama Abandon (2002), directed and written by Oscar winner Stephen Gaghan. Katie then appeared as Robert Downey Jr.'s kind nurse in Keith Gordon's movie version of the television series, The Singing Detective, and starred as wayward daughter April Burns in Peter Hedges' Thanksgiving movie Pieces of April (both in 2003). On television, Holmes guest starred in Ashton Kutcher's show Punk'd in November of 2003.
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