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Re: Holiday Movie Preview 2009
Posted By: wintermute, on host 65.189.54.153
Date: Thursday, October 1, 2009, at 05:42:29
In Reply To: Re: Holiday Movie Preview 2009 posted by Ferrick on Wednesday, September 30, 2009, at 22:50:36:

> > October 9 - An Education (limited)
> >
> > The IMDb: "A coming-of-age story about a teenage girl in 1960s suburban
> > London, and how her life changes with the arrival of a playboy nearly twice
> > her age." The limited release will be an Oscar-qualifying run; presumably,
> > it will expand from there if it does well.
> >
> > The pedigree here is the screenwriter Nick Hornby, who wrote About a Boy and
> > Fever Pitch.
>
> If you are going to reference a Hornby book, Fever Pitch ain't it. Most people will only know the movie, which was semi-awful, and not the book, which was a memoir about him being an Arsenal fan. If you want to sell people on Hornby here in America, High Fidelity is a better choice. I'm only saying.
>
> Ferrick

Are you talking about the British 1997 football version directed by David Evans, or the American 2005 baseball version directed by the Farelly Brothers?

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