Biography
From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia 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". He later went to the North Carolina School of the Arts. His novel What's Eating Gilbert Grape was adapted into a critically acclaimed movie of the same title, which launched his ...
Known For
Complete Filmography
The Same Storm
2022
Director, Writer, Original Music Composer
Snapshots of the tumults of the COVID-19 pandemic.
Ben Is Back
2018
Director, Writer, Producer
19-year-old Ben Burns unexpectedly returns home to his family's suburban home on Christmas Eve morning. Ben's mother, Holly, is relieved and welcoming...
Little Sister
2016
as Bill Lunsford
After returning to her childhood home, young nun Colleen finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth and metal poste...
The Odd Life of Timothy Green
2012
Director, Screenplay
A childless couple bury a box in their backyard, containing all of their wishes for an infant. Soon, a child is born, though Timothy Green is not all ...
Dan in Real Life
2007
Screenplay, Director
Advice columnist Dan Burns is an expert on relationships, but somehow struggles to succeed as a brother, a son and a single parent to three precocious...
Pieces of April
2003
Screenplay, Director
Quirky and rebellious April Burns lives with her boyfriend in a low-rent New York City apartment miles away from her emotionally distant family. But w...
About a Boy
2002
Screenplay
Will Freeman is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is avoiding any kind of responsibility. But when he invents an imag...
A Map of the World
1999
Screenplay
School nurse Alice Goodwin lives with her husband and two daughters on a dairy farm in a small Wisconsin community. After an accident on her property ...
What's Eating Gilbert Grape
1993
Novel, Screenplay
Gilbert Grape is a small-town young man with a lot of responsibility. Chief among his concerns are his mother, who is so overweight that she can't lea...
Sammy
1977
as Matt Redding
Delightful story of a young boy whose playful nature and love for animals spark zany incidents and a dangerous adventure. A small boy, crippled since ...
Good As New
N/A
Director, Writer
Revisiting this acclaimed work – a brutal one-act comedy about a learning-to-drive daughter who comes face-to-face with the mother she thinks has let ...