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# Empire Falls (DVD)

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## Customer Reviews

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    Incomparable
  

*by W***D on Reviewed in the United States on September 18, 2006*

HBO hired Richard Russo as screenwriter to turn his Pulitzer Prize winning novel into a TV film. Not only did he have the scope provided by television ( several distinct chapters, three plus hours) to represent the novel properly; he also ended up with a superb, really an inimitable cast: Paul Newman, Joanne Woodward, Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Robin Wright Penn, Dennis Farina, Helen Hunt, Aidan Quinn, and lesser lights whose day will come. What raw talent!The result is fantastic. I've never seen a film that was so faithful to the novel that prompted it. (And take advantage of the screenwriter/director's commentary really to plumb the depths of this.) "Empire Falls (the movie)" is really the test case of the question "Can a novel truly be turned into a film?" And the answer is an emphatic "YES!" Although I read the book first, with my imagination turned on full force, I will never again be able to visualize the characters of Max Roby and the Silver Fox as anyone but Paul Newman and Dennis Farina.An interesting side question, however: Did Russo realize things about the novel that he got to clarify when he was screenwriter in the film? I certainly thought so. It was suddenly clear to me that old Max Roby was the foil to Francine Whiting, and that the central question of the story was where and how a person determines to express love: The disreputable old charmer Max Roby made the decision to offer love where his ethics and commitment (however doubtful both of these were) told him to, whereas Francine permitted herself to wander away from love to embrace power and revenge. Maybe Russo was bringing out more distinctly what, as author, he knew was already there in the novel, but maybe he was simply realizing in the film for the first time what he had hoped to accomplish in the book (and this latter is what I for one think).Thus, this film is simultaneously a best reading of the book, while also providing a new understanding of it. In any case, how could anyone do anything but recommend it enthusiastically?

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    Corny
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on November 2, 2022*

Was looking forward to watching this didn't even finish it very corny was the last project I believe Paul Newman worked on and not his best.

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    Loved it when it first appeared in 2005; loved watching it again. Quality production all around.
  

*by K***I on Reviewed in the United States on July 9, 2016*

I saw this on HBO in 2005 when it first appeared.  It grabbed my heart then - enough that when it came up on Amazon Prime my heart told me to watch it again.  It is about the emotional side of life and why we sometimes do things that seem odd to others, but make sense to our hearts.  It is about small town life and how some people make that work through their lifetimes.  For me small town life was left behind long ago, but I appreciate experiencing a story through multiple levels.  It is not easy to express this in a quick review but Empire Falls manages to flesh out the main character played by Ed Harris as he recalls his childhood, his mother, and people in his mother's life and give us an idea of why he quietly makes some decisions in his current life. The cast is deep in wonderful actors.  The story has depth and breadth. The setting is perfectly captured, right down to the letters on the signs falling off-kilter and the neon light shorting out.  It is a very well-done production - as HBO does so well.  I am really happy to be able to watch this kind of programming again.

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