Lonesome Dove is a TV mini-series directed by Simon Wincer in 1989 and based on the book of the same name by Larry McMurtry, first published in 1985. The TV series features Robert Duvall, Tommy Lee Jones, Danny Glover, Diane Lane, Anjelica Huston, Robert Urich, and others.
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Movie vs Book
Year
1989
Minutes
384
Movie Rate
8.70
Source: IMDb
TV Mini-Series
Lonesome Dove
Director: Simon Wincer
Country: USA
Year: 1989
Length: 6h24m / 4 episodes
Year
1985
Pages
960
Book Rate
8.96
S: Goodreads
Book
Lonesome Dove
Author: Larry McMurtry
Country: USA
First published in: 1985
Length: 960 pages
Genre: Fiction
Book series: Lonesome Dove
Other screen adaptations of the book
TV Mini-Series by Mike Robe
TV Mini-Series by Brian Suskind
User polls & recommendations
“The language of prose is very different than the language of cinema. The movie has to successfully translate what was in the book.”
YANN MARTEL (Writer)
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