The Door in the Floor
Dir: Tod Williams
2004
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Adapted from John Irving's novel A Widow for One Year, the makers (including Irving himself) made the sensible design of only concentrating on part of the book - leaving the death of a prostitute section out. Although it would be interesting to see the whole book adapted, maybe in a darker style, this works very well and achieves everything the book does. The actors were well cast too, Jeff Bridges in particular although maybe that's because there is an element of 'The dude' about him but then since 1998's The Big Lebowski it's often hard to see him as anything else, no matter how different he plays it.