The English Patient Madhumalati Adhikari has critiqued the treatment of World War II and its effects on the characters of the novel. The novel won the 1992 Booker Prize, athe 1992 Governor General's Award, and the 2018 Golden Man Booker award. The book was adapted into a 1996 film by Anthony Minghella, starring Ralph Fiennes, Kristin Scott Thomas, Willem Dafoe, Colin Firth, and Juliette Binoche. The film received nine Academy Awards—including Best Picture and Director—at the 69th Academy Awards. The English Patient The English Patient is a 1992 novel by Michael Ondaatje. The book follows four dissimilar people brought together at an Italian
The Man Who Loved Women (1983 film) ultimately falls in love with Marianna, his therapist, who must cease seeing him as a patient to indulge their affair. His funeral draws women of all kinds, lining up to pay their last respects. In September 1982 Blake Edwards announced he would make the film with Warren Beatty. Dustin Hoffman had reportedly turned down the lead role. Eventually Beatty dropped out. In December 1982 Burt Reynolds signed to star. Edwards wrote the script with Milton Wexler, his therapist. Wexler and Edwards had analysed scripts for years, including Edwards'. "I said if we could come up with something good and startling