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The Postman is a post-apocalyptic dystopian science fiction novel by David Brin.It is about a man wandering the desolate Oregon countryside who finds a United States Postal Service uniform, which he puts on and then claims he is a mail carrier and federal inspector for the "Restored United States of America".
The Postman was panned by critics. On Rotten Tomatoes, the film has an approval rating of 14% based on 41 reviews, with an average rating of 4.2/10. The site's consensus states: "A massive miscalculation in self-mythologizing by director and star Kevin Costner, The Postman would make for a goofy good time if it weren't so fatally self-serious."
On Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 89% based on 27 reviews, with an average of 8.00/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "The Postman Always Rings Twice spins a sultry web of mystery with a gripping adaptation of a classic noir tale." [25]
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The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1981 American neo-noir [4] erotic thriller film directed by Bob Rafelson and written by David Mamet (in his screenwriting debut). Starring Jack Nicholson and Jessica Lange, it is the fourth adaptation of the 1934 novel by James M. Cain. The film was shot in Santa Barbara, California.
Il Postino: The Postman (Italian: Il postino, lit. ' 'The Postman' ' ; the title used for the original US release [ 5 ] ) is a 1994 comedy-drama film co-written by and starring Massimo Troisi and directed by English filmmaker Michael Radford .
Ardiente paciencia, or El cartero de Neruda, is a 1985 novel by Antonio Skármeta.The novel was published in the English market under the title The Postman.It tells the story of Mario Jiménez, a fictional postman who befriends the real-life poet, politician and Nobel Prize winner Pablo Neruda, and is set in the years around the 1973 Chilean coup d'état.
The Postman Always Rings Twice is a 1934 crime novel by American writer James M. Cain.The novel was successful and notorious upon publication. It is considered one of the most outstanding crime novels of the 20th century.