Title: Short Story Fans Will Be Disappointed
Product review: Leave it to the movie industry to completely sanitize an artfully crafted and disturbing story about a conflicted teen's coming of age and sexual awakening. When I discovered that there was a film adaptation of this Oates' story and that it had been casted with the seductive and cagey Laura Dern, I expected, at the very least, that the basic storyline would have been preserved. That Chopra changed the ending of this classic short story is truly disappointing--Ms. Oates, how could you allow it? The sappy love-hate relationship between Connie and her mother is phony, the actress who played Connie's weird sister could use more than a few more drama lessons, and the character of Arnold Friend has been reduced to a dorky and only slightly creepy Rick Springfield look-a-like. This film project should have been handed to David Lynch.
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