Given the title of ten thousand saints, eleanor hendersons entertaining and readable debut novel, and the fact that its protagonist is named for saint jude, you might reasonably conclude that the book is about goodness, sainthood, moral transformation. Ic profs ten thousand saints made into film ithaca journal. Ten thousand saints is a drama movie which takes place in 1980s and shows a boy who is living with his mother in vermont and moves to new york city to live with his father. However, i deny this is the proper teaching of this verse. These three, thrown together by their parents mistakes and. The movie is directed by shari springer berman, robert pulcini and will feature asa butterfield, nadia alexander, emily montimer and ethan hawke.
The resulting novel, ten thousand saints, is the best thing ive read in a long time. Eleanor henderson was born in greece, grew up in florida, and attended middlebury college and the university of virginia. Shari springer berman and robert pulcinis ten thousand saints is a breath of mostlyfresh air about coming of age in the era of the straight edge movement. Oh, if only we had with us here ten thousand of those men back home in england who arent working today. Ten thousand saints is a film adapted from novel ten thousand saints book.
Eleanor henderson is in possession of an enormous talent which she has matched up with skill, ambition, and a fierce imagination. The film premiered at the 2015 sundance film festival on january 23, 2015. Mostly set in the lower east side of 1980s new york city, ten thousand saints is that rare book that paints scenes so vividly you can imagine the movie in your head. Use features like bookmarks, note taking and highlighting while reading ten thousand saints. This search result is offered as a helping hand to find books in the library ireland encore system. Ten thousand saints is a whirling dervish of a first novel a planet, a universe, a trip. Ten thousand saints international dublin literary award. Henderson debuts with a comingofage story set in the 1980s that departs from the genres familiar tropes to find a panoramic view of how the imperfect escape from our parents mistakes makes equall. Ten thousand saints is well written, insightful, and entertaining.
Ten thousand saints on dvd october 6, 2015 starring hailee steinfeld, ethan hawke, asa butterfield, emile hirsch. Ten thousand saints pulsates with fullblooded supporting characters who create a tragicabsurd tapestry of decay and rebellion in the ronald reagan years, from depressed new england to volatile. In the case of the movie ten thousand saints, that setting is new york city in the late 80s. Deuteronomy speaks of 10,000 saints, or ten thousands of saints, coming from mount. Teenagers when the book begins, they specialize in petty theft.
I remember this manhattan, the sunday matinees at cbs, the rage over yuppies colonizing the east village. It is speaking of gods people in a place of safety in the end time. Premillennialists assert that this statement refers to the return of the righteous to the earth at the end of the socalled rapture period. In my opinion, the best films use highly specific settings to tell stories with universal appeal. In that sense, ten thousand saints isnt exploitative, sensationalist.
Ten thousand saints is a 2015 american drama film written and directed by shari springer berman and robert pulcini. Released august 14th, 2015, ten thousand saints stars asabutterfield, haileesteinfeld, ethanhawke, emilehirsch the r movie has a runtime of about 1 hr 46 min, and received a score of 62 out of. Henry switches back and forth between them in his speech. Search for this book in the dublin city library encore system and arrange a suitable location for loaning it. For a movie with extremely loud punkrock music at its core, ten thousand saints is a pleasantly lowkey experience. A comingofage story about three teenagers in late 1980s new york cityjude asa butterfield, new to the city from vermont, straigh. Fans of eleanor hendersons 2011 novel may also be intrigued by this. If you enjoy any sort of reading, this is a must buy.
Writerdirectors shari springer berman and robert pulcini dont so much churn the nostalgia mill in their adaptation of eleanor hendersons novel as apply requisite period specificities and. Released by nettwerk america in 2015 containing music from ten thousand saints 2015. I wanted to live inside its pages, where i could imagine not just the scenes themselves, but the cameras, the lights, the actors reading. The story is kind of flat and its hard to get engaged. The knot of intimacy at the center of ten thousand saints is the friendship between teddy mcnicholas and jude keffyhorn. Ann patchett, bestselling author of bel canto and state of wondera sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring new york city during. When he arrives in new york everything change for him but also for his father. Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson 6,804 ratings, 3. The film stars asa butterfield as jude keffyhorn, the protagonist of the story. Ten thousand saints, a coming of age in the east village, circa 1980s. The ambition of ten thousand saints, eleanor hendersons debut novel about a group of unambitious lost souls, is beautiful. It is based on the novel of the same name by eleanor henderson. Stroll down saint marks place in new york city today past the glossy new highrises and the twentysomethings dressed in hip highend. Start your 48hour free trial to unlock this ten thousand saints study guide and get instant access to the following.
Ten thousand saints 2015stream and watch online moviefone. T en thousand saints is the cinematic equivalent of receiving a mixtape from an old friend, only to remember that their shabby taste in music is one of reasons why youve grown apart over the years. Everything you need to know about ten thousand saints. Behold, the lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints. The book of habakkuk comments on this same prophecy. Moving back and forth between vermont and new york city, ten thousand saints is a story of a frazzled bunch of family members that were brought together by teddys sudden death due to an overdose, then carried along in anticipation of the birth of his child. Marks are brought back to lifehendersons book reads in part like an elegy. On the eve of the battle of agincourt, which fell on saint crispins day, henry v urges his men, who were vastly outnumbered by the french, to recall how the english had previously inflicted great defeats upon the french. Ten thousand saints by eleanor henderson goodreads.
In saints, a straightedge coming of age set in the late 1980s, eleanor hendersons bittersweet ten thousand saints follows three teens as they search for belonging in a rapidly changing manhattan. In the roiling, electrified streets of new york city in the 1980s, eliza, jude and johnny each show up wanting a place to hide from everything that has gone wrong, big and small, in their short lives. But, strangely, ten thousand saints never quite connects, only occasionally being as moving or funny as its subject matter would suggest. Download it once and read it on your kindle device, pc, phones or tablets. To ask other readers questions about ten thousand saints, please sign up. Ten thousand saints is based on a novel which i read about half of. Ann patchett, bestselling author of bel canto and state of wonder. If you are the publisher or author of this book and feel. Asa butterfield, aloft, plays a troubled vermont teenager who moves to new york to live with his estranged.
The st crispins day speech is a part of william shakespeares history play henry v, act iv scene iii 1867. This book is easily the best book ive ever read, and it has twists and turns that keep you reading and attached to the characters. Ann kopitzke the conclusion i drew at the end of the books was the judes. Adopted by a pair of diehard hippies, restless, marginal jude. Ten thousand saints soundtrack from 2015, composed by garth stevenson. Ten thousand saints is a history of the 60s, 70s, and 80s, but it is also a life lesson for every generation that ignores the importance of mothers and fathers in every human life. A sweeping, multigenerational drama, set against the backdrop of the raw, roaring new york city during. A comingofage story whose growing pains are divided among not just adolescents but presumed adults, shari springer berman and robert pulcinis ten.
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