Katie Holmes, Patricia Clarkson, Derek Luke and director Peter Hedges attended a screening of the 2003 film at the Paris Theater Sharing a group photo that also included panel moderator Azazel Jacobs, ...

Hedges tried and failed to get “Pieces of April” financed multiple times. At one point, he’d lined up $6 million in financing, which was the top of the range for a low-budget indie film at the time.

Pieces of April, made by playwright turned novelist turned screenwriter turned director Peter Hedges, could be confused for a compendium reel of someone’s home movies. Shot on digital video using ...

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 ...

The directorial debut of scenarist Peter Hedges (What’s Eating Gilbert Grape, About a Boy) is a slight comic drama about familial reconciliation. Katie Holmes stars as April Burns, a young East ...

This weekend's "Pieces of April" is a very hot candidate to become the low-budget-wonder movie of 2003: it's a wide release from a major distributor, and yet it was shot on video for the absurdly low ...

With Thanksgiving approaching, the film "Pieces of April" is widely available on streaming platforms and makes for a timely, emotionally rich holiday watch. Why "Pieces of April" Is a Great ...

The Pieces of Aprilcast had a family reunion. Katie Holmes recently came together with costars Patricia Clarkson and Derek Luke, plus writer-director Peter Hedges, for a screening and Q&A for their ...

Movies with name stars don't come much cheaper than Pieces of April, shot for around $200,000 in just three weeks. But despite its meager resources, slow start and clichéd setup -- a dysfunctional ...