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The Hotel New Hampshire is a 1984 comedy-drama film written and directed by Tony Richardson based on John Irving's 1981 novel.A co-production from the United Kingdom, Canada, and the United States, it stars Jodie Foster, Beau Bridges, Rob Lowe, Nastassja Kinski, also featuring Wilford Brimley, Amanda Plummer, Matthew Modine, and Seth Green in his film debut.
Writing in The New York Times, John Leonard made gentle fun of the amount of promotion that Irving, a literary celebrity after the success of The World According to Garp, had done for the book, and of some of his claims in these interviews (such as that Hotel New Hampshire was a fable a child could understand), but liked the book overall: "Mr ...
In 1981, he appeared as a gang member in the film Ragtime and played Junior Jones in the 1984 film adaptation of John Irving's novel The Hotel New Hampshire. Dorsey Wright was, for a brief time, part of a not-for-profit theater group based in New York City, called the Theater for the Forgotten.
Many of Irving's novels, including The Hotel New Hampshire (1981), The Cider House Rules (1985), A Prayer for Owen Meany (1989), and A Widow for One Year (1998), have been bestsellers. He won the Academy Award for Best Adapted Screenplay at the 72nd Academy Awards for his script of the film adaptation of The Cider House Rules. [2]
“Mosquito Coast” producer Veritas Entertainment Group is shopping TV adaptations of two high-profile novels — Tom Wolfe’s “I Am Charlotte Simmons” and John Irving’s “The Hotel New ...
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Man on the Train (2011) – set somewhere in New England; Sucker Punch (2011) – set in Brattleboro, Vermont; Ted (2012) – set in Boston, Massachusetts; Moonrise Kingdom (2012) – set on the fictional New England island of New Penzance; The Conjuring (2013) – set in Harrisville, Rhode Island; The Heat (2013) – set in Boston, Massachusetts
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