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Mar 27, 2020 · 9. A Long Way Down (2014) Lionsgate. A Long Way Down is a special Nick Hornby book. It centres around four individuals who by chance all meet each other on the roof of a building as...
- Inside The Hornby Files
- Fever Pitch
- High Fidelity
- About A Boy
- A Long Way Down
- Juliet, Naked
- Screenwriting
English writer (and one-time secondary school teacher) Nick Hornby has a golden touch when it comes to writing popular novels that make the transition to feature film adaptations. This success is driven, in part, by his curiosity about what is current in the world in which he lives, from sports and music to popular culture. More subtly, though, his...
Based on Hornby's near-obsessive support for Arsenal Football Club, Fever Pitch (1997) stars Colin Firth and Ruth Gemmel in an admittedly thin, standard-issue romantic comedy. It was remade with the same title in 2005, this time starring Jimmy Fallon, Drew Barrymore, and the Boston Red Sox. Interestingly, the remake clocked in at #172 on Rotten Tom...
Hornby’s first novel, High Fidelity(1995), reset the bar with its 2000 movie adaptation claiming spot #48 on the Rotten Tomato Rom-Com ranking. With John Cusack as compulsive list-maker and bumbling romantic Rob Gordon, the movie not only grossed almost $48 million worldwide but introduced audiences to a rising star, Jack Black (as Barry Judd), who...
A few spots higher on the RT RomCom list at #44 is the 2002 adaptation of Hornby's 1998 novel of the same name. Starring Hugh Grant as a self-declared “shallow” playboy who is suddenly out of his depth when he befriends an introverted twelve-year-old boy, it leverages the traditional scoundrel-finds-love tale into a deeper reflection on why no man ...
Hornby’s run of RomCom winners ended with A Long Way Down(novel 2005, movie 2014), a dark comedy about four people planning to use the same roof to kill themselves on New Year’s Eve. While the book was shortlisted for the prestigious Whitbread Novel Award, the movie adaptation did not fare nearly as well despite having a cast that includes Pierce B...
Music returns to the forefront of Hornby’s next novel Juliet, Naked(2009), and its accompanying adaptation in 2019. The plot is standard Hornby fare (not a bad thing necessarily), but the movie sparkles thanks to the chemistry of its three stars: Chris O'Dowd as the obsessed fan/music snob, Rose Byrne as his long-suffering girlfriend, and Ethan Haw...
No look into the Hornby file would be complete without mention of his stellar work as an adapter of other people’s books for the big screen. His skilled touch with journalist Lynn Barber’s memoir An Education (2009) garnered an Academy Award nomination for Best Adapted Screenplay. He returned to another memoir in 2014 when he adapted Cheryl Strayed...
That’s the setup of “A Long Way Down,” a bizarre suicide sitcom directed by Pascal Chaumeil (“Heartbreaker”) from Jack Thorne’s screen adaptation of a novel by Nick Hornby.
A LONG WAY DOWN is the adaptation of best-selling English author Nick Hornby's 2005 novel about four strangers who meet on the night they all plan to commit suicide by leaping off of the same fictional London building, Topper's House.
- Pascal Chaumeil
- Sandie Angulo Chen
- Toni Collette, Pierce Brosnan, Aaron Paul
Jan 27, 2014 · The first A Long Way Down trailer for the adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel, starring Pierce Brosnan, Aaron Paul, Toni Collette, and Rosamund Pike.
- Adam Chitwood
Feb 11, 2014 · Feb 11, 2014 9:00am PT. Berlin Film Review: ‘A Long Way Down’. Four characters meet while planning to commit suicide and decide to annoy one another instead in this tacky Nick Hornby adaptation....
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Apr 25, 2014 · Magnolia Pictures has released a new A Long Way Down trailer for director Pascal Chaumeil’s adaptation of the Nick Hornby novel of the same name. The story revolves around a group of...
