Stephen Frears Reteaming with 'High Fidelity' Writer

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Stephen Frears Reteaming with 'High Fidelity' Writer

Saturday, November 7, 2009 at 9:02AM

High Fidelity should have done better at the box office a million years ago. It did OK considering - $27 million plus about another $20 million internationally, but I think Disney was probably the wrong place to distribute it, and it probably never made a big impression on a lot of people until it hit the home video market.

One of the things the film shows is the versatility of director Stephen Frears (The Queen). It doesn't hurt that they had a fantastic Nick Hornby novel to work from, and now, a decade later, Frears and High Fidelity screenwriter D.V. DeVincentis might reunite to tackle "a dramedy set in the world of geeky gamblers," according to The Hollywood Reporter. The project is an adaptation of the upcoming memoir Lay the Favorite, Take the Dog by Beth Raymer, which is basically 21 with middle-age guys.

The Reporter observes, "It centers on a woman in her early thirties who has made a series of bad choices but achieves a redemption of sorts when she meets and then becomes involved with the gamblers," and with Frears' track record of commanding laudable female performances, that role should be high on any actress' list.

It's also not a world removed from Frears' The Grifters, which like High Fidelity starred John Cusack. That one is a little more about the artistry of the con artist, but it definitely has similar touches.

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