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Tag: adapted from novel

Posted on January 20, 2023January 20, 2023

Guillermo del Toro’s Pinocchio (2022)

The classic story is re-imagined as unfolding in Fascist Italy where the wooden puppet learns slowly what it is to be a human & a father to accept a son as he is.

Posted on June 23, 2021June 23, 2021

The Hunchback of Notre Dame (1996)

This animated version of Victor Hugo’s novel about a hunchback & a gypsy in medieval Paris emphasizes the theme of reaching out to outcasts.

Posted on June 25, 2016June 25, 2016

Our Kind of Traitor (2016)

An ordinary British couple vacationing in North Africa become involved with a Russian mafia money launderer desperate to save his family by defecting.

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