Poor Things: Book vs. Movie
Yorgos Lanthimos's 2023 film Poor Things adapts Alasdair Gray's 1992 book. Emma Stone plays Bella Baxter, a woman brought back to life whose curiosity takes her beyond the home of the surgeon who revived her.
About the book and the movie
- Author
- Alasdair Gray
- Year
- 1992
- Pages
- 336Buy book
- Audiobook length
- 9 hr 15 minGet audiobook
- Narrator
- Russ Bain, Kathryn Drysdale
In a memoir set in Victorian Glasgow, Archibald McCandless describes his encounter with Bella Baxter, a woman whom surgeon Godwin Baxter claims to have brought back to life through an extraordinary operation. McCandless falls in love, but Bella's curiosity and travels take her beyond the future the men imagine for her. Competing accounts of her life raise questions about who gets to tell it.
- Director
- Yorgos Lanthimos
- Writer
- Tony McNamara
- Year
- 2023
- Runtime
- 2 hr 21 minWatch on Amazon
- Cast
- Emma Stone, Mark Ruffalo, Willem Dafoe, Ramy Youssef
- Genre
- arthouse science fiction, black comedy, Fantasy, Thriller
- IMDb
- View on IMDb
Restored to life by surgeon Godwin Baxter, Bella learns about the world within the limits of his London household. She leaves with lawyer Duncan Wedderburn, whose promise of adventure opens a journey through unfamiliar cities, pleasures, and inequalities. As Bella begins making decisions for herself, the men around her discover that curiosity is much harder to control than they expected.
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