Save your soul, God's Butterfly trapped in a cocoon of flesh, and read the book! Or better yet - Listen to the audiobook read by Mr. Stephen King himself!! This mini-series was just terrible! The storyline was hacked to pieces and then put back together in a vague shape that in no way resembles the book, except that maybe it is about a writer suffering from writer's block up at a lake house. Everything else is just smashed together, doesn't make sense or is completely and utterly changed into something that had nothing to do with the book.
Pierce Brosnan is just okay as Mike, but he has no relationships with the other characters - which is the whole point of the story. He is supposed to be romantic and attracted to Mattie and yet it is not even believable because he talks to her something like two times the whole movie. There is no connection between Mike and Kyra. Kyra is far to old to even be believable and understandable with the storyline. (Most seven to eight year olds don't "play" in the street in my opinion) Other characters are just straight up changed or even gone from the screenplay. The lawyers are completely eliminated which is ridiculous! Suddenly Mike, who is a writer, can quote the law well enough that a lawyer/guardian-ad-litem just gives up his questioning.
Now I understand that fitting a book that takes around 20 hours to read into 4 hours of movie time requires some editing. But this was just chopped and hacked beyond all recognition. Save yourself and run to the library for any version of the book!
Pierce Brosnan is just okay as Mike, but he has no relationships with the other characters - which is the whole point of the story. He is supposed to be romantic and attracted to Mattie and yet it is not even believable because he talks to her something like two times the whole movie. There is no connection between Mike and Kyra. Kyra is far to old to even be believable and understandable with the storyline. (Most seven to eight year olds don't "play" in the street in my opinion) Other characters are just straight up changed or even gone from the screenplay. The lawyers are completely eliminated which is ridiculous! Suddenly Mike, who is a writer, can quote the law well enough that a lawyer/guardian-ad-litem just gives up his questioning.
Now I understand that fitting a book that takes around 20 hours to read into 4 hours of movie time requires some editing. But this was just chopped and hacked beyond all recognition. Save yourself and run to the library for any version of the book!