If you've seen all three of the movie versions of the story (1980's TV movie A Murder In A Small Town with Barbara Hershey, Hulu's Candy with Jessica Biel, and HBO's Love And Death with Elizabeth Olsen), you've started to notice as I have that every story is just like the other one. The small details, the backstory lines, even bits of dialogue are virtually identical. That's not just because they're all based on the same book, but apparently the screenwriters are too lazy to add their own touches to it. So you'll notice literally copy-and-paste dialogue from a version over forty years ago in this most recent version. I'm not sure what Hollywood's fascination with Candy Montgomery is, but she isn't worth three different movies by three different actresses, all literally re-telling the same story with the same dialogue.
Review of Love & Death
