Poets & Writers Theater
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News of the World is a film adaptation of Paulette Jiles’s 2016 novel of the same name, which was a National Book Award finalist. Tom Hanks plays Captain Jefferson Kyle Kidd, a war veteran, widower, and newsreader in the 1870s who travels from town to town reading the news to locals and comes across a young orphaned girl played by Helena Zengel.
Tags: Fiction | News of the World | film adaptation | movie trailer | 2020 | Paulette Jiles | National Book Award | novel
