Fast Eddie runs a pool hall. He teams up with Minnesota Fats on TV to play pool.

The film is completely different from the book; Eddie sells liquor for a living. Eddie takes Vincent under his wing to show him how to hustle pool. He later abandons Vince and tells him to go on his own.

Noah has a stroke and is hospitalized. He is released and, on the night of their 49th anniversary, he reads the letter Allie wrote to him when she was diagnosed with Alzheimer's. Deciding to visit her, he finds that Allie recognizes him, and they talk.

Allie realizes that she and Noah are the people in the book. It is only a few minutes until she fades and pushes Noah away as a stranger. Later Noah looks at the book- Allie wrote, "Read this to me, and I'll come back to you." The next morning a nurse finds Noah in critical condition. He is saved from a heart attack. After returning from the hospital, he goes to see Allie. She wakes and recognizes him. She asks if their love is strong enough to take them away together. Noah says that their love can do whatever they want it to do. In the morning, they are found dead, lying together on her bed and holding hands. The film closes with a flock of birds flying over a lake.

Jesse is troubled and sets fires.

This behavior is left out.

Lex Luthor is from Smallville.

We don't know where he is from, but it isn't Smallville.

Donald Kimball is a young detective, almost at the same age as Patrick (26)

Donald Kimball is portrait by Willem Dafoe, turning him into an older character

Powers divorced his wife soon after returning to the USA. He flew U-2's for Lockheed for several years after he was released by the CIA and given his back pay.

End titles tell of Power's death in a helicopter crash in 1977 and subsequent awards given to him by the CIA in 2000.

The Party Ponies rescue Percy, Annabeth, and Tyson from Princess Andromeda.

The Party Ponies do not appear.

James Ross has a biological son named Bunny.

Daniel Plainview adopts the son of a miner who is killed and names him H.W.

The only people who know Harry's real nature are Asta and her father. Most of Harry's time away from the doctor's office is devoted to investigating crimes and solving mysteries.

Harry and the boy Max make a truce. Harry tells him he is an alien and needs to find parts of his ship to go home. Max helps Harry locate his missing device on the glacier because he can sense the object's green glow through a telescope.

This (quite kitschy item) is not in the novel. The film is said to have plundered the literary work. With such additives it is to my mind indeed a far to free interpretation of the novel.

Gatsby and Daisy dance while Gatsy is wearing his old uniform.