Round 7: Tossup 3

Demands by Macauley Culkin’s dad Kit forced this author to revamp his script for The Good Son. Richard Eyre’s films of this author’s novels include one in which a judge sings “Down by the Salley Gardens” for a teenage Jehovah’s Witness. In an adaptation of a novel by this author, Dario Marianelli’s score plays over a 5-minute oner (“WUN-er”) in which the camera travels across a smoke-filled beach. Harold Pinter adapted a novel by this author into Paul Schrader’s film The (*) Comfort of Strangers. Christopher Hampton ended a screenplay based on a novel by this author with a mock interview in which an old woman says, “I gave them their happiness.” That Joe Wright adaptation (10[1])of a novel by this (10[1])author features a sex scene involving a woman wearing an emerald-green silk dress in a library. For 10 points, Saoirse Ronan (“SURR-shuh RO-nun”) played Briony Tallis in the film of what author’s novel Atonement? ■END■

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