


“Jack Lemmon was playing Morie and Hank Azaria was playing me, and I heard Jack Lemmon say ‘Mitch, when you learn how to die, you learn how to live.'” “I do remember the first day I went to the set of the movie,” Mitch Albom, the author of ‘Tuesdays with Morrie,’ said, recalling his time during the production of the film adaptation in an interview with CBS Sunday Morning. Since the biographical film is so dependent on dialogue, it wouldn’t have been successful at all without the brilliant and authentic depiction of the two protagonists by Hank Azaria and Jack Lemmon. The film relies heavily on dialogue and is a portrait of both the time Mitch spent with Morrie, as well as Morrie’s own life. Since its publication, as well as the film adaptation’s release, ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ has had a positive effect on anybody who’s come across it in either form. Mitch, who discovered his old professor in the winter of his life, penned down the conversations they had on Tuesdays and published it in 1997. Thomas Rickman, who wrote the screenplay, adapted the eponymous book by the real-life Mitch Albom for the film. Yes, ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ is a true story. We wondered the same this, and here’s everything that we discovered! This impact on the viewers is enough to make them wonder whether Mitch and Morrie are real people or not. The raw human emotions that come off in waves from the two lead characters make the conversations between them all the more impactful. ‘Tuesdays with Morrie’ takes a look at the fast-paced lives everybody’s living nowadays and questions it through the conversations between Mitch and Morrie. The 1999 film stars Hank Azaria and Jack Lemmon in the leading roles and was directed by Mick Jackson.
