Three Picoult Adaptations Courtesy Of Lifetime TV: A Mostly Successful Collection
Author Jodi Picoult has penned some surprisingly ambitious and thought-provoking page turners. Adapting them, though, is a sometimes tricky proposition. Here are three Lifetime TV movie attempts that met with varying degrees of success. Not a bad collection for the price if this is your type of entertainment. I'll comment more extensively on "Salem Falls" as the other two movie have been around for a while and/or released on DVD previously.
Salem Falls (2 1/2 Stars): From 2011, this adaptation probably veers the furthest from Picoult's original vision of small town scandal. When a mischievous trio of high school girls employ the dark arts, one wishes to find a mysterious new love interest. Enter drifter James Van Der Beek, a man who seems to be on the run from a troubled past. The loner meets up with a local diner owner when he almost kills her father! How's that for a meet-cute? As he takes a temporary job in her establishment, romance blossoms between the two even...
Great movies
These three movies kept me hanging on to every scene. I watched all three in one night. Really enjoyable. Great plot
Ok movies.
The movie itself was not great, I am surprised Jodi Picoult let them do this to her books, but it shipped perfect and was new and everything. :)
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