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Review title: Sadly, it just doesn't cut it
Product review: I love Maupin and I loved The Night Listener. When I heard that it was being made into a film, I was rather surprised but very curious to see how it would work. Unfortunately, the results are just fair. The cast (some of them surprising choices) acquit themselves quite well here and I have no quibbles with that. However some of the other choices are more unfortunate: the move to NY from SF, the Disneyfied core issues of Jess and Gabriel's relationship, and the extremely visible Toni Collette. Her performance (as is usual) is excellent, but her physical presence is too much there from the beginning and distracts from the mystery at the core of the story. The novel had a much more palpable sense of loneliness and desperation throughout that kept the readers' emotions much more on edge.A brave try, though.
