Miramax Films and producer Scott Rudin have acquired screen rights to Richard Price's novel "
Lush Life," just published by Farrar, Straus & Giroux.
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Lush Life" is set up as a police procedural in which a restaurant manager and his bartender set out to walk a drunken friend home on Gotham's Lower East Side. One of the men winds up on the wrong end of a bullet, and a murder investigation reveals much about the city and the characters involved in a mugging gone wrong.