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Originally posted by paigowprincess
The NYT did not like it, did you?
I understand it was shot on location in Maine. Was it Podunkesque?
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It could have been better, but I liked it. I think that most critics have said that Russo shouldn't have written the screenplay -- he managed to committ both of the deadly sins of turning a complex novel into a movie: he left too much in (in total, this was a 3 1/2 hour movie) and took too much out (he relied on narration instead of dialog and action in telling some important stuff).
It was very Podunkesque. The scenes inside the Empire Grill could have been filmed at the Dew Drop Inn, and the crumbling factories along the Knox River look just like the crumbling factories out on Highway 64.
Nobody's Fool is still the best of his books. And it was a better movie, too.
