The Cider House Rules (1999)

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Studio: Miramax Films
Rating: PG-13
Release Date: Dec 10, 1999
Running Time: 131 mins. (V)
Country Of Origin: United States
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Based on the best-selling novel by John Irving, it's the story of Homer Wells, an child without parents raised and mentored by his orphanage's doctor, a man named Larch. He taught Homer everything about medicine and what he could about right and wrong, but he never gave him rules to live by. When he leaves to discover the world, he has more excitement than he could ever imagine, especially when he falls in love for the first time. But when forced to make decisions that will change the course of his future, he ultimately realizes that he can't escape his past.
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Wally Worthington
Doctor Wilbur Larch
Nurse Edna
Nurse Angela
Rose Rose
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Olive Worthington
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Many writers will express dissatisfaction when one of their novels is

turned into a movie. By virtue of the differences between the two

mediums, pertinent parts of the fiction are often omitted or telescoped.

Characters are composited and plot strands jettisoned. Sometimes a fine

film can emerge (think "Gone With the Wind"), sometimes not (see any

feature film based on F. Scott Fitzgerald's novels).

There are those novelists (like Fitzgerald) who tried their hand in

Tinseltown, yet those who… Continued