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The Shipping News: A Screenplay by Robert Nelson Jacobs

3 reviews
Robert Nelson Jacobs

Miramax Books, 2002

Will Tide You Over Til the Next Big Thing
The Shipping News is an enjoyable fictional novel written by Anne Proulx, which follows the life of Quoyle, a man whose entire life has been littered with misadventures. It is a story that tracks Quoyle's barely tolerable life as he travels from one dead-end job to the next. Eventually Quoyle finds a job as a reporter for a small newspaper. He had originally applied to be an ink setter. However, ...

Chocolat: A screenplay

1 review
Robert Nelson Jacobs

s.n, 2000

MELTED!
This is an unfortunate occurence. Miramax has taken an enjoyable and well written novel and gutted it of it's emotional intensity, presumably in an effort to make it more palatable to the movie going masses. Pere Reynaud and Vianne Rocher are very similar--both want to bring good to the little village in which they both now reside. Unfortunately, both characters are prisoners in some way to the ...