Nick Hornby Sells Rights To 'How To Be Good'

[Sunday, May 2nd, 2004]
Columbia Pictures have paid a mid six-figure sum for the rights to make Nick Hornby's bestseller How to Be Good, according to Variety.

Hornby donates all his income from movie rights or screenplays to Treehouse, which he co-founded in 1997 with other parents of severely autistic kids.

How to Be Good is a complex moral comedy about a well-meaning doctor whose sense of superiority to her angry, cynical husband is challenged when she has an affair, and he decides to become "good" in the fashion of the Gospels.

That turns out to mean redistributing the family's possessions to the poor, and inviting her patients to live in their house.

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