Irving's memoir describes the author's involvement in five of the films that have, and have not, been made from his nine novels. It focuses primarily on the thirteen years Mr Irving spent writing and rewriting his screenplay of THE CIDER HOUSE RULES, for four different directors. My Movie Business is essentially about making the screen version of The Cider House Rules. As such, it's concerned primarily with the intricacies of condensing a 500-plus page novel into two hours of screen time, discussing necessary adaptations of the plotline, the treatment or cutting of characters and the shooting of specific scenes
