Review of Oliver's Story

To me, the only redeeming quality this movie has is its opening(first) scene,which, of course, is his deceased wife Jenny's funeral.Now for my criticism.Several more actors and actresses from "Love Story" might have helped this sequel become a gem of a movie. Also,I think that the first film's director should have directed this sequel.Before I saw "Oliver's Story", I read the much better book,"Oliver's Story".This book has an uncountable amount of extremely interesting details,including at least one of Oliver's attempts at finding a new,true romance that I feel should have been included in this sequel.This aforementioned "new love interest"is referred to at least twice in the book,but not in the movie.I'ts this glaringly obvious omission of way too many of the book's details that make "Oliver's Story" so disappointing to me!One of my favorite parts of the book are its final words which Oliver says he would be if his "wife were still alive.This sequel should have had that as its ending! Oh Well!