It has been 30 years since the release of The Shawshank Redemption. In my house, I jokingly ask, "Who is ready to see The Shawshank Redemption? Today we did it! The film, based on a Stephen King Novella, still holds up. Now I want to coax then into seeing Midnight Express.
So many of the good movies based on books are based on short novellas and short stories and not trying to fit a full novel into the cinematic format.
IMHO
Shawshank is a good one.
@tgraph52 @ChrisPierson "Julia", which was based on one chapter of Lillian Hellman's book _Pentimento_, is a good example of this.
I was recently watching both versions of movies based on James Thurber’s “The Secret Life of Walter Mitty”, originally published in The New Yorker (1939).
[I'm not a big Benn Stiller fan and preferred his funny parents more]
@KamloopsBob @tgraph52 Are any of her plays being performed these days? There are so many of the old plays that could and should get a reboot.