Word: friedenberg
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WRITER: RICHARD FRIEDENBERG...
...hard to think of any recent book that is a less likely candidate for screen adaptation. As it turns out, it is hard to remember a serious work that has been more faithfully or more entrancingly turned into a movie. Partly this is because the screenwriter, Richard Friedenberg, has gently expanded the original work, using family history gathered from the writer (who died in 1990) and his children. He has added some colorful boyhood anecdotes and, most important, has developed the boys' relationship with their father, a Presbyterian minister (Tom Skerritt), as well as Norman Maclean's courtship...
Screenplay by Richard Friedenberg...