The novel'sĮxhaustive examination of abortion (both its moral and medical aspects) has been greatly softened. The movie is really only a fragment of that novel, scaled down to conventional movie length, with numerous characters discarded and the story's time frame compressed from decades into a couple of years. Wonders and the director's tender-hearted compassion mesh into what is easily the finest film realization of an Irving novel.
In Hallstrom's lovely adaptation (with a screenplay by the author) of Irving's sixth novel, "The Cider House Rules," the author's fantastical world of I can't think of a better filmmaker to guide us through that world than Lasse Hallstrom, the director of "My Life as a Dog" and "What's Eating Gilbert Grape?," two grown-up movies that share Once you give up those expectations, a visit to the world according to Irving is a little like touring a parallel universe where fate is determined not so much by abusive parents as by wondrous tragicomic events beyond Must be willing to suspend a psychoanalytic view of human nature descended from Freud through Oprah and surrender to an imagination that is more Dickensian than Freudian. T doesn't take a cryptographer to decipher the meanings in John Irving's sprawling picaresque allegories.
Selected Scenes and Trailer From the Film 'The Cider House Rules'.`The Cider House Rules': A Rite of Passage, With Dickensian SympathiesįILM REVIEW `The Cider House Rules': A Rite of Passage, With Dickensian Sympathies
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