Starting Out in the Evening is the film adaptation of the novel by Brian Morton, which follows a writer (Frank Langella) whose world is shaken when an ambitious graduate student (Lauren Ambrose) convinces him that she can use her thesis to bring him back into the lit world spotlight. The film also stars Lili Taylor and Adrian Lester. The film, directed by Andrew Wagner, was released on November 23, 2007 at the Paris Theatre in New York City.
A crepuscular glow suffuses Andrew Wagner's intelligent, careful adaptation of a near-perfect novel by Brian Morton. One of Mr. Wagner's themes (and also Mr. Morton's) is the waning of that old, literary New York, the twilight of an idea of more