HISTORY BOYS
HISTORY BOYS
Playwrights are luckier than screenwriters in at least one respect: their only limits are the limits of the audience’s imagination. How they must pity the poor screenwriter, who writes knowing that if he writes about an office, his story will look like an office. In the film adaptation of the wildly successful play HISTORY BOYS, Alan Bennett the screenwriter never quite figures out how to deal with the location selected by Alan Bennett the playwright.
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