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Jan 19, 2018 Full Review Richard Roeper Ebert & Roeper It's better on HBO where it can play over a couple of nights and you get a chance for the story. Because if you try to compress it into a ...
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Empire Falls Reviews. All Critics. Top Critics. All Audience. Verified Audience. John Leonard New York Magazine/Vulture. TOP CRITIC. Cajoled through this landscape by a Thornton Wilder Our...
Featured review. 9/10. Great film, great cast. I saw the premiere in NYC, and I work with one of the cast members, so my take on the movie is a bit biased. I also grew up in Maine, and know several of the locations well. All told, the production captured the sense of community in Maine very well.
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- 2005-05-28
- Drama, Romance
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May 18, 2005 · This lengthy, loving adaptation of Richard Russo’s Empire Falls is too reverent for its own good.
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Critical reaction. Miniseries adaptation. References. External links. Empire Falls is a 2001 novel written by Richard Russo. It won the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2002, and follows the story of Miles Roby in a fictional, small blue-collar town in Maine and the people, places, and the past surrounding him, as manager of the Empire Grill diner.
SPOILERS THROUGHOUT: It was a pleasure to watch this HBO miniseries, Empire Falls featuring the best cast I've seen in years. I have not read the book, which I hear is a masterpiece but I plan to. As for the movie, Empire Falls, it is a beautifully done mini series that weaves a spell and grows on you as you watch.
Empire Falls – John Varley. Movie Reviews. Empire Falls. (2005) There are a lot of things I could say about this HBO miniseries, now available on video. The great cast. The Pulitzer Prize book it was based on, and how well the longer format fits a mostly quiet story like this. The big surprise near the end, that startled me and Lee.
