Question about the "Prayer for Owen Meenie" movie

bif

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Thu Jan-28-10 04:57 PM
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Question about the "Prayer for Owen Meenie" movie

Edited on Thu Jan-28-10 05:19 PM by bif

It was called something else. But what and why?

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hippywife

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Thu Jan-28-10 05:09 PM
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1. It was called Simon Burch

but I didn't see it and I don't know why they changed the name. :shrug:

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bif

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Thu Jan-28-10 05:20 PM
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2. I found out that...

Irving said it would never make a good movie. He sold the rights with the stipulation that they couldn't use the book's title. He suggested the title "Simon Birch". It was actually a very good movie.

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