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Adapted from Sigrid Nunez’s novel, The Friend opens with the prosaic inner monologue of New York author and writing teacher Iris (Naomi Watts) shortly after her erudite mentor (Bill Murray) has taken ...

Co-starring an enormous, soulful Great Dane named Bing, this literary Manhattan drama gives Watts and Bill Murray a forum for ...

Sigrid Nunez on and off the big screen. Two new films—Pedro Almodóvar’s The Room Next Door and Scott McGehee and David Siegel’s The Friend—attempt to adapt her work. Do they succeed?

For the film The Friend, adapted from the book of the same name by Sigrid Nunez, directors Scott McGehee and David Siegel tapped Bill Murray to play Walter, a quasi-controversial, womanizing ...

The newcomer Bing is full of charm as the dog whose presence causes Watts’s character to confront what’s missing in her life ...