This film attempts to compile all or most of Hemingway's Nick Adams stories into one complete whole. The effect is a coming of age story that ends on a bitter/semi-sweet note. Along the way you see a series of stories populated by well known actors and actresses.
There is a sequence that reminds one of Farewell to Arms (wounded ambulance driver falls in love with nurse, who eventually dies in his arms).
There is the overbearing, controlling, religious mother and the anguished father (who eventually takes his own life).
There is the hard boiled newspaper editor, who gives sound hard boiled advice.
I liked the movie, but I am unsure whether I would recommend it to someone else.
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