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The Bookshop is a 2017 drama film written and directed by Isabel Coixet, based on the 1978 novel of the same name by Penelope Fitzgerald, [2] in which the lead character attempts against opposition to open a bookshop in the coastal town of Hardborough, Suffolk (a thinly-disguised version of Southwold). [3]
The Corner is a 2000 HBO drama television miniseries based on the nonfiction book The Corner: A Year in the Life of an Inner-City Neighborhood (1997) by David Simon and Ed Burns, and adapted for television by David Simon and David Mills. It premiered on HBO in the United States on April 16, 2000, and concluded its six-part run on May 21, 2000.
As a novel by a still relatively unknown writer, The Bookshop appeared to mostly condescending initial reviews. [3] The Times called it "a harmless, conventional little anecdote, well-tailored but uninvolving"; The Guardian a "disquieting" novel about "really nasty people living in a really nice little coastal town"; and The Times Literary Supplement, while calling it "marvellously piercing ...
Charles Begore Smith (September 13, 1920 – December 26, 1988) was an American character actor. [1] He was born in Flint, Michigan.. He had notable roles in The Shop Around the Corner (1940) and The Major and the Minor (1942).
The Shop Around the Corner is a 1940 American romantic comedy-drama film produced and directed by Ernst Lubitsch and starring Margaret Sullavan, James Stewart, Frank Morgan, and Joseph Schildkraut. The screenplay by Samson Raphaelson is based on the 1937 Hungarian play Parfumerie by Miklós László .
Films set in bookstores.Stores can range in size offering from several hundred to several hundred thousand titles. They may be brick and mortar stores or internet only stores or a combination of both.
The Bookshop is a narrative overview of the history of independent bookstores in the United States. Each chapter focuses on a different bookstore, describing its history, contributions to its local community, and eventual decline. There are intermissions throughout the book looking at the bookselling industry more broadly.
On the Corner is a Canadian drama film, directed by Nathaniel Geary and released in 2003. [1] Set in the Downtown Eastside neighbourhood of Vancouver , British Columbia , the film stars Alex Rice and Simon Baker as Angel and Randy Henry, a brother and sister struggling with poverty and drug addiction.