The Hotel New Hampshire

This macabre, whimsical, erotic, dark, seriocomic film is a complex tale about an eccentric family and the psychological and emotional maelstroms that follow them around from New England to New York to Vienna, where the Hotel New Hampshire is located. Writer-director Tony Richardson worked from the ...more

It's just not easy making a film out of a John Irving novel, as The Hotel New Hampshire vividly demonstrates. It's not just that what makes Irving's novels distinctive is his unique voice, tone, and style, all of which are difficult to translate to the screen; it's also that his books tend to have a tremendous amount of incident (and often characters), much more than can easily be boiled down to two hours. As might be expected, Hotel really doesn't work onscreen, despite the best efforts of ...more