There’s a story Peter Hedges likes to tell about the moment he knew his son Lucas would be an actor. Young Lucas was in seventh grade, playing Smike in his school’s production of “Nicholas Nickleby” ...

Revisiting the early days of the pandemic is not on most of our to-do lists, but viewers may find “The Same Storm” worth a look all the same. Inspired by the Damian Barr quote (“We are not all in the ...

Featuring actors mainly performing from their own homes, this multistory drama clumsily wrestles with the struggles of everyday people during the first months of the pandemic. By Beatrice Loayza Peter ...

Writer-Director Peter Hedges’ The Same Storm was filmed with a star-studded cast using iPhones and laptops during the intense early days of the COVID-19 lockdown. The film, out now in theaters, ...

What are we to make of these last few years? Better yet, what is it possible to make from it all? Writer/director Peter Hedges is busy promoting his response to those questions, a new film entitled ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Derek Luke and director Peter Hedges attended a screening of the 2003 film at the Paris Theater ...

It’s been a quarter of a century since Peter Hedges graduated from the University of North Carolina School of the Arts, a period that’s seen him become an enormously successful screenwriter, director, ...

EXCLUSIVE: Juno Films has acquired rights to the experimental drama The Same Storm, from writer-director Peter Hedges (Ben Is Back), for distribution in the U.S., Canada and the UK. The film will open ...

Lucas Hedges was born in the New York neighborhood known as Brooklyn Heights, the son of an actress and Oscar-nominated writer/director Peter Hedges, who’s made films like ‘The Odd Life of Timothy ...

Peter Hedges, the writer of What's Eating Gilbert Grape, has just written and directed his first film, Pieces of April, currently in theaters. The Daily recently had a chance to chat with Mr. Hedges ...