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What fun to cast Beachcombers as a movie!Read an excerpt from Beachcombers, and learn more about the book and author at Nancy Thayer's website.
The major parts are for young women, and there are so many brilliant young actresses. For the three sisters, I'd cast Jessica Biel, Ellen Page, and Evangeline Lilly, because they're all beautiful and accomplished and I can easily envision them as sisters who love each other and often drive one another crazy.
Marina, the "older" woman at forty who rents the sisters' playhouse-turned-cottage in the Foxes' back yard, would be played by Demi Moore. What man could resist Demi Moore in his playhouse?
The father, Jim Fox, is around 50. He's a gentle, loving father, mystified and sorrowing for his wife who died fifteen years before, so the actor would need to be capable of sweetness. Jim is also a working man, a contractor who has a boat and loves to fish. He's a bit of the strong, silent type. I'd love to see...[read on]
The Page 69 Test: Summer House.
Writers Read: Nancy Thayer.
The Page 69 Test: Beachcombers.
My Book, The Movie: Beachcombers.
--Marshal Zeringue
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