in my opinion this book is the best oine i have seen take the transaction to a movie.
I have also read thee books and seen there movies
A Time to Kill
Harry Potter 1-4
Lion Witch and the Wardrobe
Da Vinci Code
Interview with the Vampire
Jurassic Park
I can't think of any others
I am not sure if i have ever seen Cear and Present Danger
oh and Indian in the Cupboard
share"Black Hawk Down" and "The Green Mile" were very well done, too
shareThis was a terrible book to movie.
I felt cheated when watching this awful movie, the book was so much better.
In the book, Mark is street smart, while still just a kid, in the movie, he just comes across as a dumb, arrogant trailer trash punk. And Barry the Blade looks more like Barry the Village people reject, he didn't look tough at all, he just looked like some butt pirate.
Where as some of the other Grisham book to movies were amazing, like A Time to Kill, The Firm, Runaway Jury and Pelican Brief lived up to the standard of his books, with fantastic acting, and casting.
This really did just look like a TV movie, and I for one think that if someone watched it not having read or seen any of John Grisham's other works, would avoid them like the plague.
I liked the movie "A Time to Kill" better than the book. I liked "Pelican Brief" and "The Client" as much as I liked the books. However, I was very disappointed in the movie "The Firm". The book was so intense.I stayed up all night reading it and was literally drained by the time I got to the end. I was so let down at the end of the movie.
shareThe Firm and The Pelican Brief? Those books were butchered when they were turned into movies. The Firm's only resemblance to the books were the same character names and Mitch happened to work in a law firm and was a target.
The Pelican Brief could've been fantastic with the casting (especially Denzel Washington, even though he was white in the book) but Julia Roberts completely underplayed Darby and turned her into a wimp who could barely string two thoughts together, let alone put together the brief.
Granted, that was more the scripts problem, but I would love to see the actual books of these two turned into movies. A rare time when I hope for remakes ;-). It's a shame, since Tom Cruise was perfectly cast as Mitch.
A Time to Kill - now that was beautifully brought from book to screen. Shumacher did the book justice while still speeding the plot along and really only changing the end where Jake makes the speech about the rape and then imagining she's white (which was one of the few times a change worked better in the movie than it did in the book, since the book it happened off-page and it was a jury member who made the speech). And casting on that one was spot-on - the part was practically written for Samuel L. Jackson and (the then unknown) McConaughey couldn't have been a better Jake!
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I agree. The book translated very well to the screen. I loved every performance in the film.
Who needs Halo when we can be regaled with tales of the Whore of Omaha!
My vote is for "To Kill a Mockingbird". The only difference I saw between book and movie was the location in which Tom was gunned down.
Brad Renfro was so wonderful in "The Client". I cannot believe he's already gone.
I thought the adaptation of the book was done rather well despite the radical changes in the physical description of Reggie Love. Also I think the best "book to movie" was The Godfather" hands down.
sharefujiwan08, I've never read the book. How was Reggie described in the book???
To quote the text. "The first thing he noticed about her was her hair. It was gray and shorter than his: very short above the ears and in the back, a bit thicker on top with bangs halfway down. He'd never seen a woman with gray hair worn so short. She wasn't old and she wasn't young."
A far cry from Susan S.
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