The author wrote one other book that never did so well & nor it's following movie, WBTW had an all star cast--Dustin Hoffmann, Sean Connery. It's about a jewel heist but never really catches fire.
"Family Business."
I think you'd enjoy the movie for the same reason as I did: It was one of the last movies filmed in New York before the gentrification began. The West Side looks like fucking Disneyland today .
"I got news for you. If it wasn't for the toilet, there would be no books." --- George Costanza.
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