BOOKS ABOUT TO BECOME MOVIES
THE ABSTINENCE TEACHER by Tom Perrotta
Status: In development, but has a projected release date of 2012. 2013 is more likely.
Who's Involved: The Kids Are All Right writer-director Lisa Cholodenko has recently revealed she's taken over the reins of adapting and directing from Little Miss Sunshine's Valerie Faris and Jonathan Dayton.
Why you should read the book first: Simply because it's a fascinating read. Perrotta's penned a couple of novels that have become incredible movies (Election, Little Children), and Cholodenko is a brilliant fit for this book's blend of taboo, humour and humanity. Nonetheless, this story of opposites attract is so funny, provocative and moving that it's a perfect for summer travel. The story centres on the troublesome attraction that sparks between a liberal-minded sex ed. teacher, and one of the born-again Christians responsible for making her change her long-held sex-positive curriculum to an abstinence-only agenda. Perrotta paints his characters with a delicate hand, giving them layers and dimension beyond the labels they initially apply to each other. The results are insightful, hysterical, and breathtakingly poignant as they build to a climax that plays out at a nail-biting pace that won't allow you to set it down, and will leave you feeling ragged but satisfied.
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