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The script by George Franklin based on the novel by Ray Russell is slow to say the least.
What if Somerset Maugham had written a novel about a coal miner who decided to search for transcendental enlightenment by trying to join a country club?
This film is based on the novel by John Fante.
If you want to make a romantic melodramatic Hollywood production with Colin Farell and Selma Hayek, then how could you possibly make a connection to Ask The Dust (the novel)?
The plot has been SUBSTANTIALLY altered from Cornwell's novel, and not to the better.
Now the 1963 Robert Wise telling of Shirley Jackson's remarkable novel "The Haunting of Hill House" is worth the price of admission even today.
This film rips the guts out of Orwell's tough novel, turning it into a harmless, fluffy romantic comedy.
In the novel, London is a bleak, grey, cold, heartless city, and Comstock prays for it to be blasted away by a squadron of bombers.
He is arriving to great acclaim as his novel that parallels an infamous trial is a best seller.
Nevertheless the idea of using a stage persona to solve inner conflicts is interesting, albeit not novel nor fully explored as a theme in this film.
Based on the novel "The Darling Buds of May" by H.E. Bates, with a poor sound-mix causing all the actors to sound as if they're stuck in an echo chamber.
Ah WINTER KILLS , based on the novel by Richard Condon which deals with a conspiracy that killed the president of the United States 20 years ago .
This was filmed back-to-back with the 1992 re-make of Conan Doyle's famous novel 'The Lost World'.
Plus, even if you accept this morally suspect subject, the utter sappiness of the dialog make it sound like a 19th century romance novel...and a really bad one at that.
I realize that bringing a novel to the big screen is always problematic.
I had read many good things about this adaptation of my favorite novel...so invariably my expectations were crushed.
It's where the first novel (Dune, Ender's Game) blows you away with an actionpacked revolutionary story.
Adapted from the novel, this teleplay gives us a group of self-absorbed characters one would cross the street to avoid.
Isabel Allende's magical, lyrical novel about three generations of an aristocratic South American family was vandalized.
Because it was so club-footed and slavishly faithful to its vague idea of what the novel represented, Miramax had to market it as an art film.
C'mon guys some previous reviewers have nearly written a novel commenting on this episode.
I only recently found out that Madeleine L'Engle's novel had been turned into a TV movie by Disney and ordered the DVD.
Which is pretty much like regular England,only nobody's vandalising football stadiums.In this picturesque setting of lords,dames and other randomly chosen titles,Charlotte Gainsbourg walks around aimlessly as Jane Eyre,from that novel nobody has ever read willingly.Jane usually hangs out in Mr.Rochester's crib,where she tries to teach a French girl to look at an empty chalkboard all the time.One day,Mr.Rochester(William Hurt on auto-pilot)comes back to fall in love with Jane and all that,but there's still the matter of his fruitcake wife that is locked in the attic.Oops,that wasn't in the brochure.After some people being thrown around and some carefully spread fire(they probably rented the set),the movie finally comes to an end.Everything looked really authentic,that's something I guess.But then again,nah.
The movie is based on the novel by Pearl S. Buck.
I read the novel some years ago and I liked it a lot.
They changed everything I liked about the novel, even the plot.
I watched this film version of R.D. Blackmore's classic novel as a substitute until the 2001 A&E version was released on video.
The enormously popular novel had legions of fans eager to see a supposed "master" director put this multi-layered supernatural story on the screen.
No, I haven't read the Stephen King novel "Thinner," but I choked down the film version.
It changes the very nature of certain characters- Isabelle, for instance, in the novel, had not a conniving bone in her body- they've stripped her blind idealism and turned her into a scheming whore.
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