The Secret Lives of Dentists is a movie directed by Alan Rudolph in 2002 and based on the book The Age of Grief by Jane Smiley, first published in 1987. The movie features Campbell Scott, Hope Davis, Denis Leary, Robin Tunney, Peter Samuel, Jon Patrick Walker, and others.
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“The movie is better than the book”
But the book is worth reading.
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Storyline
Married dentists David and Dana Hurst, parents to three children, find their relationship strained when David suspects Dana of infidelity. Coping with the emotional turmoil, David starts engaging in imagined conversations with a discontented patient. The family’s stress escalates as they all fall ill with the flu.
Genres
Movie vs Book
Year
2002
Minutes
104
Movie Rate
6.40
Source: IMDb
Year
1987
Pages
224
Book Rate
7.60
S: Goodreads
Book
The Age of Grief
Author: Jane Smiley
Country: USA
First published in: 1987
Length: 224 pages
Genre: Fiction
User polls & recommendations
“I’ve adapted all three of my novels and it’s been difficult. You can’t objectively make the rational decisions that are needed.”
DAVID NICHOLLS (Writer and Screenwriter)
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