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REVIEWS | Issue: "Not angry anymore" December 01, 2007

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Lost in translation

Starting Out loses the delicate balance of Morton’s book | Meghan Keane

Lauren Ambrose

Translating unspoken thoughts to the screen is a difficult task. It is one that Andrew Wagner's new film Starting Out in the Evening (PG-13 for sexual content, language, and brief nudity), based on Brian Morton's novel of the same name, attempts with the best of intentions if not results.

Heather Wolfe (Lauren Ambrose) is a master's student at Brown planning to resuscitate the career of aging novelist Leonard Schiller (Frank Langella) with her thesis. To get to the bottom of his work, she seeks out the author and begins to interview him. This results in some May/December flirtations and a stroke.

The interactions between the lithe graduate student and the aging novelist are both unsettling and intriguing, but the film is unable to recreate the delicate balance of emotions that Morton created in his book.

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December 01, 2007, Vol. 22, No. 44

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