- Release Date: 2005
- Runtime: 197 min
- Genre: Drama, Romance
- Starring: Ed Harris, Philip Seymour Hoffman, Helen Hunt, Paul Newman ... see all
- Director: Fred Schepisi
- Plot: A drama that swoops in on Empire Falls, an economically depressed mill town in Maine, and lifetime resident Miles Roby, who's run the town's top restaurant for some twenty years.... Read more
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Pulitzer Prize winner Richard Russo follows familiar themes in his writing
dallasnews.com –
2009-10-11
NEW YORK - Years ago, well before Empire Falls won him the 2002 Pulitzer Prize for fiction, Richard Russo and his daughters would make an annual sojourn to Martha's Vineyard. ... Full Article
HBO taps scribe for Catskills drama
hollywoodreporter.com –
2009-09-07
Pulitzer Prize-winner Richard Russo is making his first foray into TV series with a drama for HBO about the Catskills Gas Rush. Russo is writing the script and is executive producing with Mark Johnson and Will Gluck. ... Full Article
At first, Richard Russo's latest novel may strike his fans-and they are legion -as disappointing. It's lighter than air, a confection. It's not as soulful as his early novels, including "Empire Falls," which won the 2002 Pulitzer Prize. ... Full Article
Old magic missing in Russo's 'Cape'
bostonherald.com –
2009-08-22
"That Old Cape Magic" is a beach read for a bummer of a summer. Richard Russo's seventh novel is bookended by two Cape Cod weddings, both attended by protagonist/narrator Jack Griffin and his wife, Joy, though they go to one... ... Full Article
"That Old Cape Magic" is the only Richard Russo novel that has its own theme song. It's also the only Russo book that needs one. ... Full Article
The Cape Cod Canal, built by the Army Corps of Engineers in 1914, cut through the base of what had been a peninsula, effectively turning the Cape into an island -- a world apart -- accessible by car via two... ... Full Article


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