The book was easily the weakest of the four novels, Betty Smith wrote. If you read the book you could see it was heavily edited. Smith said over 100 pages were taken out. This explains a lot of why the book plot jumps all over the place or the plot says things like "suddenly it was next summer." Smith writes good books but her stories are way too long and cover too much time to fit into a movie. So you wind up with horribly compressed messes that pale in comparison to the book.
The story was altered and the characters are presented in more or less a black and white sense than in the book where, as Smith does in all her novels, she is careful to show everyone is both bad and good
This movie was pretty bad, but if you want to kill some time, it won't make you sick :o)
The story was altered and the characters are presented in more or less a black and white sense than in the book where, as Smith does in all her novels, she is careful to show everyone is both bad and good
This movie was pretty bad, but if you want to kill some time, it won't make you sick :o)