Yes, the actors are good and the whole thing looks like I imagined it while reading.
But otherwise it's nothing like in the book. The story is the same but as good as every detail is wrong. The characters are forced to be black and white as if viewers could not follow the (really not very difficult) character development like in the book.
More sad, the movies has nothing of the spirit of the book: the deep love between Ellen and Tom is nowhere to be seen, Philips decision to send Ellen away for one year is now a trivial story about witchcraft and so on.
I have no idea why they took the book for the movie...only the names of the characters and the cities are the same, the rest is what would never have been a bestseller: a trivial story with badly developed characters.
But otherwise it's nothing like in the book. The story is the same but as good as every detail is wrong. The characters are forced to be black and white as if viewers could not follow the (really not very difficult) character development like in the book.
More sad, the movies has nothing of the spirit of the book: the deep love between Ellen and Tom is nowhere to be seen, Philips decision to send Ellen away for one year is now a trivial story about witchcraft and so on.
I have no idea why they took the book for the movie...only the names of the characters and the cities are the same, the rest is what would never have been a bestseller: a trivial story with badly developed characters.