The first time I felt true joy in the months after my brother Ben's death it was followed by a wave of depression that I had never anticipated. I hadn't felt joy, true happiness, in so long that I ...

AS I sit down to write this, my heart aches with a familiar pain, a pain that has never truly subsided since that fateful day in 2008 when my brother Ben was brutally murdered. He was just 16 when ...

Ben Affleck and his brother Casey Affleck at the Eccles Center for the Performing Arts in Park City, Utah. George Pimentel/WireImage Ben was born on Aug. 15, 1972, in Berkeley, Calif., and Casey ...

Ben being his brother made it easy for Casey to sign on to the project. Since they grew up together, they had the fortune of skipping a lot of steps directors typically had to go through with actors.

The first time I felt true joy in the months after my brother Ben's death it was followed by a wave of depression that I had never anticipated. I hadn't felt joy, true happiness, ...