The Friend
When a solitary writer adopts and bonds with a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend, she begins to come to terms with her past and her own creative inner life.
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"Having watched this, I want to read the book. The story is very simple, and beautiful. The adaptation is well done, in that the movie is very competently executed, the cinematography is on point, the score is nice, and so on. A beautiful book, turned into a beautiful story, competently executed, what's not to like? To like this, you must like dogs and books. If you despise intellectuals, it wont work, as all the protagonists are writers, and ofc, that big ass Dane. What a beautiful dog. Bill Murray looks almost dead, and it's beautiful that he's making such movies at this sta..."
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When Iris (Naomi Watts) visits Walter's (Bill Murray) book publisher, some of Sigrid Nunez's other published books are visible upon the publisher's office desk.
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When a solitary writer adopts and bonds with a Great Dane that belonged to a late friend, she begins to come to terms with her past and her own creative inner life.