was wounded at the Chongchon River in the Korean War, shot in the shoulder, and knocked out for two days. Jack Bolling, Binx's father, was a doctor who studied medicine and surgery in Boston, returned to Feliciana Parish to practice medicine under his father. Volunteered for the RCAF in 1940 and was killed in Crete before the US entered World War II. Anna Smith (née Bolling, née Castagne), Binx's mother, who met Jack when she was assigned to work as his nurse in Feliciana Parish. Emily Cutrer (née Bolling), age 65, whom he refers to as his aunt, and main maternal figure, is actually his great aunt. Kate Cutrer, age 25, his aunt's stepdaughter, and therefore his cousin, currently lives with her father and stepmother. When she was 19, in the fall 1955, she and her fiancé at the time were in a car crash, and he was killed. Getting on a bus the next morning to go home was the happiest moment of her life. Sharon Kincaid, Binx' secretary, a young woman from Eufala, AL. Uncle Jules Cutrer, Aunt Emily's husband. Was a widower, with his daughter Kate, when Emily married him. Walter Wade is Kate's fiancée, age 33, and a senior partner in a law firm specializing in oil lease law. Originally from Clarksburg, West Virginia, he attended Tulane, where he was a college fraternity brother of Binx. He and Binx also attended prep school together in New Hampshire. Film version During the 1980s Terrence Malick worked on a screen adaptation but eventually dropped it. In December 2005, months after the destruction caused by Hurricane Katrina, Malick explained, "I don’t think the New Orleans of the book exists anymore." References External links The New Statesman, Stephen Amidon on The Moviegoer, 3 December, 2001. List of titles referenced in the book on MUBI The Moviegoer Summary 1961 American novels National Book Award for Fiction winning works American philosophical novels Novels by Walker Percy Books about film Alfred A. Knopf books Novels set in New Orleans 1961 debut novels