Peter Hedges
1) The Heights
Author
Edition
Unabridged
Description
A "devilishly delightful" (Bookpage) new novel from an Academy Award-nominated screenwriter and the author of What's Eating Gilbert Grape.
Tim and Kate Welch are seemingly the last middle-class family in the exclusive neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, NewYork. Tim is a popular history teacher, and an ordinary guy. Kate is not ordinary, but she aspires to be. Brought up by a hippie mother, Kate stays home with their two young...
Tim and Kate Welch are seemingly the last middle-class family in the exclusive neighborhood of Brooklyn Heights, NewYork. Tim is a popular history teacher, and an ordinary guy. Kate is not ordinary, but she aspires to be. Brought up by a hippie mother, Kate stays home with their two young...
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
Filmed during the COVID-19 pandemic, THE SAME STORM presents viewers with an intimate, emotional glimpse into the lives of twenty-four characters as they make it through the spring and summer of 2020. Each character is dealt with challenges that many people were forced to face during the pandemic in what felt to many like a living nightmare. With COVID, the Black Lives Matter movement, and the looming 2020 election as key backdrops, the film takes...
3) Ben is Back
Pub. Date
2024.
Description
Academy Award® winner Julia Roberts and Academy Award® nominee Lucas Hedges deliver powerful performances in this edge-of-your-seat thriller. A mother (Julia Roberts) is swept into a race against time after her troubled 19-year-old son (Lucas Hedges) returns home for Christmas--and suddenly disappears. Over a turbulent 24 hours, new truths are revealed--and a mother's love is tested--in this unforgettably powerful film.
Pub. Date
2021.
Description
October, 2008. Young nun Colleen (Addison Timlin) is avoiding all contact from her family, until an email from her mother (Ally Sheedy) announces, Your brother is home. On returning to her childhood home in Asheville, NC, she finds her old room exactly how she left it: painted black and covered in goth/metal posters. Her parents are happy enough to see her, but unease and awkwardness abounds. Her brother is living as a recluse in the guesthouse since...
Pub. Date
[2008]
Description
Dan Burns is a local newspaper advice columnist. He is a widower with three daughters. He brings the family to his parent's house for a family gathering. When Dan goes to a local bookstore, he meets Marie. When he gets home, he finds out that Marie is actually dating his brother Mitch. Dan's mother Nana announces that she met an old acquaintance of Dan's, Ruthie Draper and that she has set up a date between Dan and Ruthie. Dan refuses to go. Mitch...
7) About a boy
Pub. Date
c2002
Edition
Full screen version.
Description
Will is a good-looking, smooth-talking bachelor whose primary goal in life is to avoid any kind of responsibility. So he decides to invent an imaginary son in order to meet attractive single moms. Will gets a lesson about life from a bright but hopelessly geeky 12-year-old named Marcus. Now, as Will struggles to teach Marcus the art of being cool, Marcus teaches Will that you are never too cool to grow up.
Pub. Date
2004
Description
Family outcast April lives in a beat-up apartment in New York's Lower East Side with her boyfriend, Bobby. In order to spend some time with her dying mother, April invites her conservative suburban family to her place for a Thanksgiving feast. While she frantically tries to complete the meal, the family drives in from Pennsylvania sharing less-than-pleasant opinions about April's lifestyle. Her dad tries to think positively, while sister Beth flaunts...