Despite its all-star female cast, this is a lengthy and tedious film about a group of women gathered round a giant quilt, and how the love affairs of their corporate pasts influence the present-day heart flutterings of flighty Pitt (Winona Ryder) who still finds time for a hot affair with a local boy in the orange grove before committing herself to true love. There's probably a moral in there somewhere, but for the life of us we couldn't figure out what it was. For the rest of it, Anne Bancroft, Esther Rolle, Ellen Burstyn, Jean Simmons and Alfre Woodard look wise and sort their lives out in the process of the film. Two of Ryder's Little Women sisters, Samantha Mathis and Claire Danes, play quilters when young. It's meant as an uplifting experience but emerges more of a drag: long too.