Review of The Hotel New Hampshire (1984) by Tony N — 06 Nov 2007
The thing with adapting John Irving's sprawling novels to the screen is you can either paraphrase the novel, in which you wind up with a kind of 'greatest hits' series of vignettes, or you cut out huge amounts of the novel, like the film 'The Door in the Floor'.
This film does the former, and manages to find a strange magic in this almost cartoonish family. The film is as eccentric, sexy, inconsistent, strange, and endearing as the book - but in a very different way.
This review of The Hotel New Hampshire (1984) was written by Tony N on 06 Nov 2007.
The Hotel New Hampshire has generally received mixed reviews.
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