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The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (DVD, 2009, Includes Digital Copy) 
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (DVD, 2009, Includes Digital Copy)

 
The Mysteries of Pittsburgh (DVD, 2009, Includes Digital Copy)

Leading Role: Sienna Miller
Rating: Rated R
Release Date: Aug 2009
Format: DVD
Additional Info: Includes Digital Copy
UPC: 625828483400
Product ID: EPID74724468
Description: Adapting a subtle, treasured novel is no enviable task. Yet it's that admittedly mammoth undertaking that is at the core of the success or failure of THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH, director Rawson Marshall Thurber's film version of Michael...
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Adapting a subtle, treasured novel is no enviable task. Yet it's that admittedly mammoth undertaking that is at the core of the success or failure of THE MYSTERIES OF PITTSBURGH, director Rawson Marshall Thurber's film version of Michael Chabon's debut novel. As a book, MYSTERIES masterfully builds upon the rich tradition of coming-of-age novels through a combination of unique characters, a simple yet intriguing plot, and a quiet celebration of the hidden delights (the "mysteries," if you will) of a small city. Thurber, who also wrote the screenplay, takes huge liberties in reworking the source material--the story of Art Bechstein (Jon Foster), the son of a known gangster, and his conflicting love for two of his bohemian friends (one a woman, the other a man) in the summer following his college graduation--and in the process creates a film that is a mere shadow of the novel on which it was based. Working with a varied cast of novice and more experienced actors (Sienna Miller, Mena Suvan, Nick Nolte, Peter Sarsgaard), Thurber does his best to recreate the melancholic wonder of falling in love, grappling with the expectations of family, and adjusting to one's adult skin, yet Chabon's novel is perhaps too nuanced to lend itself to an easy big-screen transition. That's not to say that Thurber's effort is not gallant and in its own way charming; rather, film is film, literature is literature, and, more often than not, never the twain shall meet.

In this adaptation of Michael Chabon's novel, Jon Foster (THE DOOR IN THE FLOOR) stars as Art Bechstein, a young man on the border between adolescence and adulthood in the early 1980s. Art's quiet summer is thrown into chaos when he meets a beautiful woman (Sienna Miller) and her loser boyfriend (Peter Sarsgaard). Nick Nolte costars as Art's father.

Credits
Producer:Jason Mercer, Michael London
Cast:Nick Nolte, Sienna Miller

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Edition:Includes Digital Copy

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