Narrator's voice?


Does anyone know who the narrator was? The voice sounds so familiar to me, but I can't quite place it.
I thought the movie was well acted. The little boy is a natural.
Thanks.

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from reading on the complete cast and crew page, the narrator is none other than john grisham himself

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Thanks jw.
When I looked at the cast page I didn't see it. Maybe they added it after I visited it. I appreciate you pointing it out to me.

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John Grisham.

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I loved the movie, great actors all around and especially the little boy is promising! But what's with the ending? The Hank/Cowboy matter remained unexplained and Hank's family's reactions as well, as well as the Cowboy and Tally piece. The narrator could've at least described what had happened to each of them to put closure on everything.

Well, but that's my only complaint about the movie. 8/10.

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But how would the family know about what happened? It's not like they all kept in touch. They would have never known what happened when Hank's family got home, or whatever happened to Cowboy and Tally, so why add something irrelevant?

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Having seen the movie's scripts and call sheets, and having had a small part in the movie myself, I can tell you that the reason that a lot of things are unresolved, or do not match up with the book, is that they were cut. The movie was not shot in a studio, it was shot on location in different parts of Arkansas. Shooting was on a very tight schedule. Eventually, it got so behind schedule that many things had to be cut.

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The book is far better so get a copy. With most books they have to leave out a lot for the film. I never thought about it reading the book but watching the film on TV today I kept thinking about the Waltons !.

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I agree. My husband and i have been discussing it since it was shown. I thought the book did a great job of making the time, place and events real and nothing was added by the film. My husband thinks I expect too much from film and should stick to reading!

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If any of you ever travel to Eastern Arkansas, you can see all the locations used. The church scene is a few miles from my house. The production crews had the area shut down for filming and my brother, a local police officer, served as a security guard for the filmings at the house and in the town scenes. He said all the crew was especially nice and invited the other officers to dinner on set for the last day of filming.

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I read the book first, after I heard about it filming nearby (I live in NE AR) every so often I read about it in our little small time paper, about the house they used. It did bring it home more while watching the movie and hearing about towns that I've been to or hear about locally. What's funny is that when we were looking at homes on the net (at the time we lived on the west coast) with our realter some of the homes she e-mailed me didn't have paint on them. I had to ask her about that (any way that's a diffrent story). Basicly, when a movie is based on a book a lot is taken out (to fit into a movie time slot) and things are changed a bit to make it fit the movie line. Well, that's my guess anway. Sometimes so much is changed that I end up not enjoying the movie, in this case that wasn't so.

The fact is, the story has to end some where. Not unless John G. wants to write a 2nd book to the story you can use your imangation has to what happened afterwards. The boy grew up, I shall assume that if the mother had any say they never moved back (I think in the book, she grew up in a painted home).

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the little boy is now a rising young actor, Logan Lerman, of Percy Jackson, Jack and Bobby and now 3 Musketeers. Funny how you accidentally discover the earlier work of the next crop of stars

comic book films rule

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