The popular novel Small Great Things by Jodi Picoult is coming to the big screen with Viola Davis and Julia Roberts. This is not the first time the two have acted together. They were both in Eat, Pray, Love.
Jodi wrote on her Facebook, “I have a small bit of amazing news!”
Small Great Things is about race relations and follows Ruth, a labor/delivery nurse who takes care of newborns at a Connecticut hospital but is told not to touch the baby of a couple who are white supremacists. Ruth, who has 20 years experience with newborns, is a widow whose husband was killed in Afghanistan and whose son is an honor student. When the couple’s baby dies and Ruth is the only one present, she is taken to court by the couple.
Jodi is not new to making her books into movies. She wrote My Sister’s Keeper, on which the 2009 Nick Cassavettes film was based; Her novel Sing You Home is set up with producers Ellen DeGeneres and Jeff Kleeman; and she is credited as a writer on the drama Change of Heart, which is with Cynthia Shelton Droke.
There are some movies that you automatically want to see because of the actors. This is one of them!
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