Summary
Dan in Real Life is not only a family comedy, it's a comedy about family. Writer-director Peter Hedges (What's Eating Gilbert Grape, About a Boy screenplay; Pieces of April writer/director) talks about noise and quiet that define family.
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| 0:00.0 | From KCRW in Santa Monica, this is The Treatment. |
| 0:13.9 | I'm Elvis Mitchell. Welcome to The Treatment. You can also hear the show at KCRW.com. |
| 0:18.7 | My guest, writer-director, Peter Hedges, has a way of basically making everything feel |
| 0:22.5 | like it could be a play. |
| 0:23.7 | Even his novel, What Seen Gilbert Grape, felt to me on the page like I was reading something |
| 0:28.1 | that could be stage. |
| 0:29.4 | He also wrote and directed The Wonderful Pieces of April. |
| 0:32.0 | His new film as a director is Dan in Real Life. |
| 0:34.6 | Thanks for doing the show. |
| 0:35.8 | It's great to be here. But that's the thing about all the things you've done. |
| 0:39.3 | I mean, they could be stage plays to me. |
| 0:42.0 | Well, I come from the theater. |
| 0:43.5 | I trained as an actor. |
| 0:45.2 | I started my... |
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