On Chesil Beach is a romantic drama film that centers around a newlywed couple who decide to enjoy their honeymoon on a beach resort, but their expectations turn into a disaster as several ...

Reporting from Toronto — Hollywood being what it is, and authors being who they are, film productions don’t tend to involve many novelists. They’re rarely granted the chance to adapt their own ...

Theater director Dominic Cooke tackles Ian McEwan’s novel “On Chesil Beach,” adapted for the screen by McEwan himself. McEwan’s books have made for memorable film adaptations, most notably, “Atonement ...

Getting your Trinity Audio player ready... Ian McEwan didn’t know Saoirse Ronan before she was cast as a 12-year-old in the 2007 adaptation of his novel “Atonement,” but the talent and intelligence ...

Saoirse Ronan as Florence Ponting and Billy Howle as Edward Mayhew in On Chesil Beach, a Bleeker Street release. Photo: Robert Viglasky / Bleeker Street © Both ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Ronan plays Florence, and Howle is Edward, who are from opposite sides of the social scale. But somehow they find each other and ...

When the 1962-set “On Chesil Beach” begins, with British honeymooners Edward and Florence strolling along the oceanfront talking teasingly about music — he’s into rock ’n’ roll, she loves classical — ...

Matt Goldberg has been an editor with Collider since 2007. As the site's Chief Film Critic, he has authored hundreds of reviews and covered major film festivals including the Toronto International ...

“Marry that girl!” the young man is told. “What does his father do?” the woman’s dad asks her later. “You mean is he working class or one of us?” she asks back. “That’s more or less what I mean,” he ...

It seems that the potentially fantastic teaming of director Sam Mendes and Robert Downey Jr. for The Great and Powerful Oz is not written in the stars. Mendes has three likely projects on the horizon, ...

Saoirse Ronan stars in the new film On Chesil Beach, based on the story by Ian McEwan. Ronan and McEwan talk with NPR's Scott Simon, and joke about who plays the lead character best: Ronan or McEwan. ...

Ian McEwan‘s recent work has been a master class on the elasticity of time in fiction. The first half of 2002’s “Atonement” unfolds, in voluptuous and horrifying deliberation, with the disastrous ...