by Jonathan Lynn and written by Lowell Ganz and Babaloo Mandel. The film stars Michael J. Fox, Kirk Douglas, and Nancy Travis, with Phil Hartman, Ed Begley Jr., Olivia d'Abo, Colleen Camp, and Bob Balaban appearing in supporting roles. The original music score was composed by Randy Edelman. It is a very far adaptation of McTeague. Slow Burn is a 2000 drama film directed by Christian Ford and starring Minnie Driver, James Spader, Stuart Wilson, and Josh Brolin. It is a very loose adaptation of McTeague. Further reading Bender, Bert (1999). "Frank Norris on the Evolution and Repression of the Sexual Instinct," Nineteenth-Century Literature, Vol. 54, No. 1, pp. 73–103. Campbell, Donna M. (1993). "Frank Norris' 'Drama of a Broken Teacup': The Old Grannis-Miss Baker Plot in McTeague," American Literary Realism, 1870–1910, Vol. XXVI, No. 1, pp. 40–49. Collins, Carvel (1950). "Introduction" to McTeague. New York: Rinehart. Cowley, Malcolm (1947). "Naturalism's Terrible McTeague," New Republic, Vol. CXVI, p. 31–33. Dillingham, W.B. (1977). "The Old Folks of McTeague." In: Donald Pizer (ed.), McTeague. New York: Norton. Freedman, William (1980). "Oral Passivity and Oral Sadism in Norris's McTeague," Literature and Psychology, Vol. XXX, pp. 52–61. Graham, Don (1980). "Art in McTeague." In: Critical Essays on Frank Norris. Boston: G.K. Hall and Co., pp. 75–84. Hochman, Barbara (1986). "Loss, Habit, Obsession: The Governing Dynamic of McTeague," Studies in American Fiction, Vol. XIV, No. 2, pp. 179–190. Hug, William J. (1991). "McTeague as Metafiction? Frank Norris' Parodies of Bret Harte and the Dime Novel," Western American Literature, Vol. 26, No. 3, pp. 219–228. Kaplan, Charles (1954). "Fact into Fiction in McTeague," Harvard Library Bulletin, Vol. VIII, pp. 381–385. Lardy, Leonard Anthony (1959). "McTeague: A Study in Determinism, Romanticism and Fascism," (M.A. Thesis) Montana State University. Litton, Alfred G. (1991). "The Kinetoscope in McTeague: 'The Crowning Scientific Achievement of the Nineteenth Century'," Studies in American Fiction, Vol. 19, No. 1, pp. 107–712. Mahin, Sarah Jane (1944). Formative Influences on Frank Norris's Novel McTeague. (M.A. Thesis), University of Iowa. McElrath, Jr., Joseph R. (1975). "The Comedy of Frank Norris's McTeague," Studies in American Humor, Vol. II, No. 2, pp. 88–95. Miller, Edwin Haviland (1979). "The Art of Frank Norris in McTeague," Markham Review, Vol. VIII, pp. 61–65. Morris, Ethiel Virginia (1928). Frank Norris' Trilogy on American Life. (M.A. Thesis), University of Kansas. Johnson, George W. (1962). "The Frontier behind Frank Norris' McTeague," Huntington Library Quarterly, Vol.