
Annie is a movie novelization written by Leonore Fleischer in 1982 and based on the movie of the same name, directed by John Huston in 1982. The movie features Aileen Quinn, Albert Finney, Carol Burnett, Bernadette Peters, Ann Reinking, Tim Curry, and others.
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Comic Book by Harold Gray
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Storyline
In 1933, during the Great Depression, a young orphan named Annie was living in the Hudson Street Orphanage in New York City, which is run by Miss Hannigan, a cruel alcoholic who forces the orphans to clean the building daily. With half of a locket as her only possession, Annie remains optimistic that her parents, who left her on the doorstep as a baby, will return for her.
Movie vs Book

Year
1982
Minutes
126
Movie Rate
6.60
Source: IMDb

Year
1982
Pages
192
Book Rate
7.54
S: Goodreads
Book
Annie
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Novelizations aren’t just a transcription of the film story. They also add details and backstory to the plot in a literary way.
“It’s often quite an adversarial relationship between a novelist and the people adapting their work, because a big part of the job is discarding material.”
DAVID NICHOLLS (Writer and Screenwriter)

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