Roxanne is a movie directed by Fred Schepisi in 1987 and based on the play Cyrano de Bergerac by Edmond Rostand, first published in 1897. The movie features Steve Martin, Daryl Hannah, Shelley Duvall, Rick Rossovich, Fred Willard, Max Alexander, and others.
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Storyline
Charlie C.D. Bales, the fire chief of a small ski town is an intelligent, humorous, charismatic, athletic and skilled man. When informed that Roxanne wants to meet him, Chris again feels sick and refuses to meet until C.D. comes up with a plan to allow him to be as brilliant as his letter makes him appear.
Movie vs Book
Year
1987
Minutes
107
Movie Rate
6.60
Source: IMDb
Year
1897
Pages
240
Book Rate
8.14
S: Goodreads
Book
Cyrano de Bergerac
Author: Edmond Rostand
Country: France
First published in: 1897
Length: 240 pages
Genre: Play
Other screen adaptations of the book
Movie by Joe Wright
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“No author can want a movie to be exactly like the book because then it will be a bad movie.”
KATHERINE PATERSON (Writer)
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