Hey! Movies! Leave Them Plays Alone!
"As movie adaptations of stage plays go, the recently released 'Frost/Nixon' and 'Doubt' are among the best of recent vintage, not least because the writers of the sourcing play also penned the screen versions. ... But 'Frost/Nixon' and 'Doubt' are also, in very different ways, revelatory examples of how certain themes, emotions and truths simply cannot be fully and effectively transferred from stage to screen." Chicago Tribune 01/04/09

Posted January 5, 2009 04:55 PM