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Nestor 2022-03-20 08:01:22
American parents are short-lived, they are not just optimistic and cheerful
I watched "April Fragments" (2004 US) yesterday. The director is very clever. Using the American Thanksgiving Day as a small incision, it reflects the American family concept and the indifference between family relationships. It seems that he is also advocating the Chinese family concept to the old...
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Stuart 2022-03-20 08:01:22
Enjoyable moments that don't add up
Another good film ruined by a hurried-tidy ending.
Production value, as is usual with low-budget indies, is pretty low. The handheld camera is use to the optimal benefits, emphasizing the confines and the cheap squalor of April's apartment, and making her and her boyfriend's warmth more touching....
Peter Hedges
Peter Hedges (Peter Hedges), born on July 6, 1962 in Des Moines, Iowa, USA, is an American screenwriter, director, and writer.
In 1991, the first novel "What's Eating Gilbert Grape" was published
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. In 1998, published the second novel "An Ocean in Iowa"
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. In 2002, directed the comedy film " About a Boy ", which was nominated for the best adapted screenplay at the 75th Academy Awards
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. In 2003, with the feature film " Pieces of April " nominated for the Best Breakthrough Director of the 13th Gotham Independent Film Awards
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. In 2007, directed the comedy film " DaninRealLife ", which was nominated for the 13th Critics’ Choice Award for Best Comedy
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. In 2012, directed and wrote the fantasy film " The Odd Life of Timothy Green "
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. In 2015, he served as the screenwriter of the adventure animation film " The Good Dinosaur ". In 2018, directed and wrote the feature film " Ben Is Back "
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, which was shortlisted for the 9th Beijing International Film Festival's main competition unit-Temple of Heaven Award
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. In 2021, directed the drama film "The Same Kind of Storm".
Personal Life
Peter Hedges' wife Susan Bruce is a poet and actor. They have two children, Simon Hedges and Lucas Hedges . He lives with his family in Brooklyn Heights, New York, USA
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Character Evaluation
The movie "Ben Is Back" fully unfolds a main storyline in a limited time and space. It embodies a sense of exquisiteness in character creation and plot design, as can be seen by Peter Hedges' skill. While the film partly returns to the classicist "three-in-one" rule, it also achieves a fit with the contemporary communication context .
In the movie "Ben Is Back", Peter Hedges generously gave the actors flexible creative space to concisely express the inner life of the characters. Unfortunately, his idea of the plot seems a bit stale. In some scenes in the film, Peter Hedges rashly tried a seemingly interesting concept or plot processing method, but the effect only pulled down and destroyed the originality of the film. Regrettably, Peter Hedges did not show in the film the ambition to dig deep into the internal plight of a reorganized family .
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