Film Adaptation
Uhry adapted it into the screenplay for a 1989 film of the same name starring Jessica Tandy, Morgan Freeman and Dan Aykroyd, an adaptation which was awarded the Academy Award for Writing Adapted Screenplay at the 62nd Academy Awards in 1990.
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