![]() ![]() ![]() Several things rescue this from a slippery road to perdition as a potential vanity project. Her film chiefly exists as a vehicle for her other half, Aaron, to dig down into the role of a self-destructive addict and show us what he’s capable of. Few directors would have seen the value of messing around with it ever again, but Sam Taylor-Johnson has plucked this book from the wreckage of its own reputation and given it a shot. Debunked on the Oprah Winfrey Show and elsewhere, this untrustworthy account of Frey’s time in a rehab clinic forced its author to make apology after apology, almost to the point where a 12-step programme for literary fraud succeeded his original stint for drug and alcohol abuse.Ī planned adaptation by Mark Romanek (Never Let Me Go) was dropped, and a decade elapsed. James Frey’s book A Million Little Pieces, which started life on the shelves as a self-help misery memoir and became a publishing phenomenon, wound up as an object lesson in the dangers of embellishment. Dir: Sam Taylor-Johnson. Cast: Aaron Taylor-Johnson, Billy Bob Thornton, Juliette Lewis, Charlie Hunnam, Giovanni Ribisi, Odessa Young, Ryan Hurst. 15 cert, 113 min ![]()
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