Just an aside: I know it wasn't everyone's cup o' joe, but I liked the movie version of F Scott Fitzgerald's *The Curious Case of Bejamin Button*. I'd never read the original, so I got hold of a copy for my reader earlier this month and gave it a whirl. I didn't realise that screenplay source was such a very short story. And I was both amazed and impressed by the imaginative way Fitzgerald's bare-bones idea and cardboard characters were fleshed out for the film. Sometimes, a piece does deserve more than its author has given it (but very, very rarely). N
PS: The original short is free online here:
http://www.readbookonline.net/read/690/10628/