The Hall has been home to the Ayres family for more than two centuries. During the long hot summer of 1948, he is called to a patient at Hundreds Hall, where his mother once worked. Faraday, the son of a housemaid, who has built a life of quiet respectability as a country doctor. THE LITTLE STRANGER tells the story of Dr. If you’re unfamiliar with the book, here’s the IMDB summary written by Focus Features: Color me shocked, pleased, and ultimately disappointed. They didn’t miss the important twist and ensuing interpretation they overdid it. Somehow, they did the opposite of what I expected. Never in a million years would I have guessed how they’d really screw it up. I was so certain that they would miss the subtle but brilliant, meaning-making twist that I actually pitched my column with the title “'The Little Stranger' Twist the Movie Missed.” When I pitched a movie review for The Little Stranger, I felt almost positive I knew where and how they would screw up adapting the beloved Sarah Waters novel by the same name.
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