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Novel in sentence

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These days, you'd probably hear similar chat on an HBO series, so the language is no big deal, but the script is very well written and the resolution is novel.
Movies like 'Less Than Zero' (more so in Bret Easton Ellis' novel than the movie, though) and 'Bonfire of the Vanities' and other similarly themed movies presents one class of people, wealthy apathetic socialites who exist in a state of perpetual uselessness.
The lost language of cranes" is a British TV movie based on the novel by David Leavitt.
I read George Orwell's novel 1984 where we are introduced to Big Brother, the watcher of all of us or at least in this case, these poor suckers who choose to live together under close watch by millions of poor Britons.
Based on Terry Southern's classic novel, CANDY is remarkable film featuring a swinging soundtrack, actors like Richard Burton and Marlon Brando spoofing themselves, and a fast-moving picaresque story that satirizes late 60s America (military, academia, Eastern religion, etc).
Thenardier is an even slimier villain than Javert is, but Javert's single minded pursuit of Valjean in the novel makes the antics of Thenardier look secondary, and they are usually dismissed in the filmed versions (though not in the musical version).
What seems "blatantly racist" in 2004 was really quite realistic in 1934, not to mention that the novel was written some years before that.
Joe Dante's The Howling is a classic Werewolf movie with some good effects and I loved it but it wasn't close to the novel and they even said so.
Based on the bestselling novel by Grace Metalious, Peyton Place is a solid melodrama all about the secrets and scandals of a small New England town.
A novel this rich does not adapt well to a two hour film, and this five hour production allows for a more than adequate treatment of the depth and scope of Bronte's work.
It's not their fault, but the fault of the screenwriter Erich Segal (who also wrote the novel).
I have not read the novel on which the film is based and I have watched Tarkovsky's version twice (because it demands it), but by judging this 'Solaris' on its own merits, I think this version is simply a load of old plop.
I am never disappointed in the acting, the writing (from the brilliant Tom Wolfe novel), or technology.
Herman Wouk's novel was GREAT and Dan Curtis was outstanding in both mini series.
The movie could have been executed better even though a novel idea.
Granted, it was based on a novel, so I suppose writer/producer Roddenberry can't receive all the blame for this mess.
From Ellyn Bache's novel about the feisty mother of seven boys, most of whom are now grown and out of the house, still worrying after them, concerned over their health and safety, which eventually puts a strain on her sanity.
I've been looking forward to seeing this for a while now, as I am a fan of the novel.
In the novel he dies at the wheel of his fast car, drinking and womanising, having pretty much dodged the WW2 draft.
The special effects film of its time, a story based on the novel by Arthur Conan Doyle about an expedition to a lost world where dinosaurs rule.
It may be the weakest movie ever made from an Eric Ambler novel.
Elia Kazan may have bared his tortured soul in this autobiographical novel, but someone else was needed to bring it to the screen.
Why call it MARY SHELLY'S Frankenstein if its not based on her novel?
Paolini's novel should have been left alone.
I believe the original story that this film is based on is called "Second Variety", a great post-apocalyptic novel by Sci-fi meister Philip K. Dick.
The worst part of this film, for me, was how much it ripped off ideas from Steve Alten's novel MEG.
having read the entire series of the flowers of the attic, i expected some kind of following the novel to get a decent idea about what v.c.
He comes into possession of a smashing murder novel written by a recent acquaintance, a wheezing old man with no family.
The novel turns out to be an exact description of five genuine murders, right down to details that only the police and the killer himself could have known.
This goes on for hours and never gets to any point except that the daughter eventually writes a novel about her own life.
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