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Peter Simpson Hedges (born July 6, 1962) is an American novelist, playwright, screenwriter, film director and film producer.
Peter Hedges was born on 6 July 1962 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA. He is a writer and director, known for What's Eating Gilbert Grape (1993), Ben Is Back (2018) and Pieces of April (2003).
Dec 5, 2018 · A day after the film screened at the Chicago International Film Festival, Hedges spoke with RogerEbert.com about collaborating with his son, his approach to writing dialogue and his love of fierce maternal figures.
Sep 3, 2021 · Peter Hedges managed to create a new film during the pandemic that turned out to be so much more than he could have imagined.
Peter Hedges is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director. His novel What's Eating Gilbert Grape was adapted into a critically acclaimed movie of the same title, which launched his film career. In 2002 he received an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay for About a Boy.
Sep 8, 2021 · Peter Hedges has put together a vivid slap-dash portrait of a city and, by extension, a world under siege, Todd McCarthy writes.
Dec 3, 2018 · 'Ben Is Back,' about a drug addicted young man who reaches out for his mother's help, has roots in the most personal of stories, says writer-director Peter Hedges.
Mar 4, 2010 · Peter Hedges (born July 6, 1962) is an American novelist, screenwriter, and film director. Hedges grew up in West Des Moines, Iowa, and attended Valley High School, where he was involved in the theater department, including the improv group and the mime troupe, "The Bakers Dozen".
Peter Hedges is a novelist, playwright, and filmmaker. He wrote both the novel and the screenplay What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, and is the writer-director of Pieces of April starring Katie Holmes and Dan in Real Life starring Steve Carell.
Sep 23, 2021 · Academy Award-nominated filmmaker Peter Hedges’ drama “The Same Storm” is set to open the 2021 Austin Film Festival and Writers Conference (AFF).
Dec 17, 2018 · When Julia Roberts accepted the role of Holly in Ben Is Back she had one request for director Peter Hedges—that he cast his own son, Lucas, to play her.
Aug 12, 2012 · Writer-director Peter Hedges could watch Hal Ashby's 1971 film Harold and Maude a million times. He says the totality of the film is "much greater" than other, more perfect films.
Jan 20, 2024 · I met with writer/director Peter Hedges (Dan in Real Life) on Saturday, October 20, 2018, at the Middleburg Film Festival, to discuss his latest film, Ben Is Back (which I also reviewed). It tells the hard-hitting tale of a young drug addict who can't escape his troubled past, even on what should be
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Sep 2, 2021 · The Same Storm: Directed by Peter Hedges. With Sandra Oh, Mary-Louise Parker, Elaine May, Moses Ingram. A moving portrait of the lives of twenty-four characters during the spring and summer of 2020 during COVID-19.
Peter Hedges has 17 books on Goodreads with 39393 ratings. Peter Hedges’s most popular book is What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
Dec 14, 2018 · So it’s a bit of a head-scratcher, even to Lucas himself, that he had no intention of ever starring in a movie directed by his father, the novelist and screenwriter Peter Hedges ( About a Boy,...
Sep 3, 2021 · EXCLUSIVE: Peter Hedges, like so many filmmakers looking not to lose their creative mojo during the pandemic, managed at the height of the Covid lockdown to take advantage of many talented...
Peter Hedges. Highest Rated: 94% Little Sister (2016) Lowest Rated: 36% The Odd Life of Timothy Green (2012) Birthday: Jul 6, 1962. Birthplace: DesMoines, Iowa, USA. Writer Peter Hedges has...
Dec 5, 2018 · Ben Is Back: Directed by Peter Hedges. With Julia Roberts, Lucas Hedges, Courtney B. Vance, Kathryn Newton. A drug addicted teenage boy shows up unexpectedly at his family's home on Christmas Eve.
Sep 1, 1991 · Peter Hedges created many memorable characters in small town Endora, Iowa, also known derogatorily by Gilbert as Endora of the line. A touching story about a dysfunctional family wasting away as their mother Bonnie eats herself into oblivion, I rooted for Gilbert to get out of town the entire time.
Nov 21, 2016 · Kenneth Lonergan, who wrote and directed “Manchester by the Sea,” was a friend of Peter’s in New York and has known Lucas since he was a young boy. That connection led to the breakout role of a lifetime. “It was a long process,” Hedges told HuffPost at Sundance.
Screenwriter who is best known for adapting his book What's Eating Gilbert Grape for the screen. He also wrote and directed 2012's The Odd Life of Timothy Green.
May 26, 2024 · A thrilling spectacle, but a dangerous one given the natural hazards of a roads circuit, competitors reach speeds up to 200mph between stone walls, hedges, telegraph poles, houses and grass banks ...
