What is your favorite book by John Irving that has been adapted to the silver screen?
The Cider House Rules. This is one of Irving’s more…mainstream books, in my opinion, and the tough subject matter and period setting… I found it a compelling read. I love World According to Garp, too, but there was simply too much book in that case for the film. Cider House film had a couple of sterling performances–Anthony Hopkins and Toby McGuire, especially. Good script, and reasonably true to the book (NOTHING pisses me off about a film more than the production company buying the rights to a book, then making a movie totally unrelated to the book–seriously–I get rabid). The film also has some of that unobtrusively quirky quality that makes Irving fun to read. Well done period reproduction for hair, makeup and clothing, too.
