Tensions escalate when Bernadette erects a large “No trespassing” sign for “gnats” (her term for annoying parents), which comes crashing into Audrey’s living room along with the entire hillside during a torrential rainstorm.īut Audrey has a change of heart midway through the book when she discovers that Bernadette’s husband, Elgie (Bill Crudup), intends to have his wife committed to a mental institution because of her increasingly erratic behavior. Bernadette and Audrey's unlikely friendship gets a new twistįor much of the novel, the reclusive Bernadette feuds with high-strung next-door neighbor and helicopter parent Audrey (played by Kristen Wiig), who claims that Bernadette ran over her foot in a carpool line at their kids’ school.
But there were a few key changes made in the jump from page to screen. “The book doesn’t really lend itself to a film,” says Richard Linklater ( “Boyhood," the "Before" trilogy), who directs the long-gestating movie adaptation starring Cate Blanchett (in theaters nationwide Friday). “It became a challenge of how to physically manifest a lot of that dialogue and find the right forum for it, but that was also the fun part.”įans of “Bernadette” will be delighted to know that the film is a faithful adaptation of the novel, which lovingly examines a mother-daughter relationship while spoofing stuffy suburban life. Maria Semple’s 2012 best-seller, which tells the story of a restless housewife named Bernadette Fox who vanishes before a family trip to Antarctica, is told almost entirely through emails, letters, legal documents and police reports, with occasional commentary from Bernadette’s 15-year-old daughter, Bee, the book’s narrator.
Spoiler alert! What follows includes plot details from the book and movie “Where’d You Go, Bernadette.” Stop reading now if you don't want to know.Īt first blush, “Where’d You Go, Bernadette” seems unadaptable.
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