Title: Skip the movie. Read the book.
Product review: The only good thing about this movie--and I'm really grasping at straws here--is that it prompted me to reread the book, which I last read over 10 years ago. The book is a breathtaking masterpiece; the movie is a breathtaking travesty. A 10-hour television miniseries might, just might, have pulled it off. A movie, even a 3-hour one, was doomed from the start to do injustice to the book, but it's even worse than that: the plot has been altered enough that the book is nearly unrecognizable within it except in broadest outline. Poor Marion. She deserved much better.
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