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This movie is based on an award winning novel and chronicles a family starting with the son's arranged marriage to a slave girl.
Pet Sematary is a very good horror film and believe it or not somebody can make a good horror film out of a Stephen King novel.
It's based on a novel of the same title, which was equally good, though different from the film.
Large cast of characters could be out of an Anne Tyler novel, i.e. they are layered with back story and potential futures, there are no false notes, surprising bursts of humor amidst self-inflicted anxiety and very real if not earth-shattering dilemmas.
Stardust, based on a novel by Neil Gaiman, showed up in theaters this week with little more than a peep.
Monkey Grip based on the prize winning novel of the same name explores Nora (Hazlehurst, a single mother falling for a heroin addict Jobe (Friels).
"Pet Sematary" is an adaptation from the Stephen King novel of the same title.
Richard Brooks excellent 1967 film of Truman Capote's novel IN COLD BLOOD is a perfect companion piece to Philip Seymour Hoffman's Oscar winning performance in the 2005 CAPOTE.
Czech director, Gustav Machaty (who directed the original screen version of 'Madam X',another parable in romantic obsession) directs from a screenplay by Jacques Koerpel,Frantisek Horky & Machaty,from the novel by Robert Horky.
The plot contains some of the elements of Wodehouse's novel, but none of its virtues, though he co-wrote the script.
Director John Frankenheimer, adopting a tough script based on Elmore Leonard's gritty crime thriller novel, expertly maintains a steady snappy pace, delivers plenty of gripping tension, and effectively creates a compellingly seedy'n'sordid atmosphere.
The scenario is based on the novel by Vladimir Nabokov and the transfer to the big screen is absolutely brilliant.
His persona is similar in a way to Yossarian in Catch-22, Joseph Heller's classic novel about men and war.
I really was amazed at Director Boorman's vision of Dickey's novel, very impressed.
This version however was very true to the novel and very well filmed.
Mother Night is a very good Vonnegut novel, and most certainly one of his easiest novels to adapt into a feature length film.
These days, I doubt an intelligent novel like Mother Night would ever get the green light from the big Hollywood grindhouses.
In fact, given today's geopolitical realities, the novel's premise may appear dated, and some younger viewers with little knowledge of history will be utterly confused by the events unfolding (I am talking to you, fellow Americans who are students and scoring the lowest in the industrialized world in geography, history, and lord knows what other subjects!).
A very good adaptation of the novel by amrita pritam.
For this is not a simple gangster tale lifted from its graphic novel origins, and is simply wonderful to watch because of it.
This is an extremely dense, somber, and complicated film that unravels quite slowly, revealing excruciating detail, like the attention paid in a novel, and watching this film "IS" like watching a novel unfold.
Based on Jeff Rice's unpublished novel, it told how a fearless investigative reporter named Carl Kolchak ( the late Darren McGavin ) discovered the existence of a vampire in modern-day Las Vegas.
Anne Brontes epic novel THE TENANT OF WILDFELL HALL should be studied and read throughout schools and libraries and peoples living rooms.
I studied Charlotte Bronte's novel in high school, and it left me with a stunning impression.
Here was a beautiful novel about a young woman's struggle to find love and acceptance in the dark times of Victorian England.
Unremittingly bleak and depressing, the film evokes as well as could be desired the legendary misery and emptiness that characterised Houellebecq's controversial novel of the same name.
Jason Patric delivered a fantastic performance as "Kid" Collins in this wonderful adaptation of the Jim Thompson novel.
The actors, the voice overs, the direction, it all captures the feel of the novel without sacrificing its own merits.
If you have ever read and enjoyed a novel by Tom Robbins you will appreciate this movie as a whole-hearted attempt to translate his outrageously unconventional writing style into a workable piece of big screen art.
The bottom line is that in many ways this series was like watching a family or a long novel slowly take form.
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