42: The Jackie Robinson Story: The Movie Novel is a movie novelization written by Aaron Rosenberg in 2013 and based on the movie 42, directed by Brian Helgeland in 2013. The movie features Chadwick Boseman, T.R. Knight, Harrison Ford, Nicole Beharie, Christopher Meloni, Ryan Merriman, and others.
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Storyline
In 1945, sportswriter Wendell Smith suggests that Brooklyn Dodgers owner Branch Rickey consider Jackie Robinson as the black ballplayer Rickey is looking for. When Durocher is suspended by Happy Chandler, the Commissioner of Baseball, for actions in his personal life, leaving the Dodgers without a manager to start the regular season, Burt Shotton agrees to manage the team.
Genres
Movie vs Book
Year
2013
Minutes
128
Movie Rate
7.50
Source: IMDb
Year
2013
Pages
160
Book Rate
8.44
S: Goodreads
Book
42: The Jackie Robinson Story
Subtitle: The Movie Novel
User polls & recommendations
“To adapt a book successfully, you must be able to betray it. It's difficult to work on that.”
OLIVIER MASSET-DEPASSE (Filmmaker)
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