There's one movie casting that's just bugged me from DAY ONE! It isn't as if this is some "great" movie, or even an important movie. It just happened that I had read the book once, then read it again later in life, then read it again when my bedpartner was having panic attacks at bedtime. There is nothing like being read to sleep. Works miracles! I came to love this story called The Cider House Rules written by John Irving. In my mind- the kind old doctor & head of the orphanage was always Donald Sutherland. When the news came that the person cast for the role of Dr Larch was Michael Caine ... it absolutely floored me. Good Grief! It couldn't have been worse if he had picked out any number of other men ... Michael Caine was the absolute antithesis of that kindly, caring doctor I'd imagined in my mind's eye for so many, many years.
