I would not have watched this if I didn't like the short story by Salinger. I'm not a fan of black and white melodramas from the 40s and 50s. So I gave it a one not only because it changed the story into something else but the something else was very bad.
Here's a comparative example of awfulness:
At the end of the story Eloise is crying to her old friend and very nice Mary Ann about feeling a loss of her old self, her kinder self. There's more to it than that about loss and how she's trapped.
At the end of the movie Eloise is crying to Mary Ann who just stole her husband. Mary Ann has to steal Eloise's husband because Eloise drinks alcohol or something. Mary Ann is not presented as the horrible person she obviously is. Eloise says the same thing about feeling a loss of her old self. But I'm pretty sure that her grief is not about her loss of her sense of self or true love but about the loss of her virginity. Mary Ann decides to be nice to Eloise and lets Eloise keep custody of her own child. But still steals her husband.
After this, I don't blame Salinger for not wanting Hollywood to touch "Catcher in the Rye."
Here's a comparative example of awfulness:
At the end of the story Eloise is crying to her old friend and very nice Mary Ann about feeling a loss of her old self, her kinder self. There's more to it than that about loss and how she's trapped.
At the end of the movie Eloise is crying to Mary Ann who just stole her husband. Mary Ann has to steal Eloise's husband because Eloise drinks alcohol or something. Mary Ann is not presented as the horrible person she obviously is. Eloise says the same thing about feeling a loss of her old self. But I'm pretty sure that her grief is not about her loss of her sense of self or true love but about the loss of her virginity. Mary Ann decides to be nice to Eloise and lets Eloise keep custody of her own child. But still steals her husband.
After this, I don't blame Salinger for not wanting Hollywood to touch "Catcher in the Rye."