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This is Fresh Air. I'm David B. Incouly. The new film The Friend, starring Naomi Watts and Bill

Murray, is based on the novel of the same name by Sigrid Nunez. Her book won a 2018

National Book Award for Fiction. It begins with the narrator, a woman, at the memorial of a dear

friend who killed himself. He was more than a friend,

years before he was her writing professor and mentor. When she was his student, they slept

together once, at his suggestion. She wasn't the only student he seduced, but her friendship

with him outlasted his three marriages and many affairs.

After his death, she reluctantly inherits his dog, a hundred and eighty-pound Great Dane,

who, like her, is grieving. Here's a clip from the film. Bill Murray as Walter and Naomi Watts's

Iris are the two old friends. He's trying to persuade her to get his

daughter to help put together a book of his work. She's lovely, she's bright, I like to work by myself.

She's very bright. I just said that tonight. You might appreciate another perspective, you know,

someone to bounce things off of young, energetic, not the point. Young, energetic, and my daughter.

Right, but she hardly knows you.

She doesn't know your work, your relationships.

And that's exactly what I'm trying to fix.

So I'm the fixer?

Everyone knows that you fix things.

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