Sydney Pollack’s approach is softer. He strips away some of the sharper, manipulative edges of the original script (co-written here by Barbara Benedek and David Rayfiel). The result is less a battle of wits and more a study of loneliness. If the 1954 film was about class warfare and seduction, the 1995 film is about emotional availability.
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