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Title: I Beg To Differ - Stick With The Book
Review: This disappointing film has none of the irony and wistful quality that made Alice Hoffman's book of the same name such a - well, magical read. The film instead is ruined by a rushed, connect-the-dots script that fails utterly to capture the nuances and charm that made the book such a hit when it was published.One reviewer characterized the film, which received mostly poor reviews, thusly: "Barbie joins a coven." To be fair to Bullock and Kidman, the "Barbies" in question, there wasn't much they could do with the awful script. That aside, the review could not be more apt. A good cast, including Aidan Quinn, an actor I greatly respect, can't redeem the bad writing that reduces the original material to cute gimmicks and a dreadful ending that not only doesn't appear in the book, but runs contrary to the book's underlying observations about the relationship between desire and wisdom.I cannot recommend the book highly enough. I cannot recommend the movie at all.
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