Evening Class (novel) Evening Class (novel) Evening Class is a novel by Maeve Binchy. It was adapted as the award-winning film "Italian for Beginners" (2000) by writer-director Lone Scherfig, who failed to formally acknowledge the source, although at the very end of the closing credits is the line 'with thanks to Maeve Binchy'. A story of many Irish men and women from various backgrounds and how a teacher, Nora O'Donoghue (known as "Signora"), and an Italian evening class changes their lives over the course of a year. Each chapter deals with the life story of one or more students in the class. In
The Evening Star Star" as "a completely unconvincing sequel", awarding it only one-and-a-half stars of a possible four. The Evening Star The Evening Star is a 1996 American comedy-drama film and a sequel to Academy Award for Best Picture-winning "Terms of Endearment", starring Shirley MacLaine, who reprises the role of Aurora Greenway, for which she won an Oscar for playing in the original film. Based on the novel by Larry McMurtry. The screenplay is by Robert Harling, who also served as director. The story takes place about fifteen years after the original, following the characters from 1988 to 1993. It focuses on Aurora's