The plot of the novel is far more complex than the film adaptation. What else could I have showed you, Homer? The only thing I can teach you is what I know! In every life, you’ve got to be of use. Larch, Homer’s disdain for performing abortions. Larch’s willingness to provide abortions and his personal feelings on the morale doctrine of the day, and establishes in the first scene of dialogue between Homer and Dr. He uses a montage over the opening credits to reveal Dr. Irving sets up the central conflict immediately. His goal in the book and the script remains the same: to avoid performing abortions (though he has be trained how) and to see and experience something more of the world than just the confines of St. In the film, Homer becomes the main character. Larch delivered, portrayed by Toby Maguire in the film) who refuses to perform abortions. Larch (played onscreen by Michael Caine, who won an Oscar for this film for Best Supporting Actor), an orphanage physician who performs illegal abortions, and his protégé, Homer Wells (an orphan Dr. The novel revolves around two main characters: Dr. He achieved this brilliantly – the script won the Oscar for Best Adapted Screenplay – by focusing the screenplay on the central conflict. Screenwriter John Irving had the formidable task of condensing his own 550-page novel into a 136-page script for the 1999 film The Cider House Rules.
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