Despite its lengthy run time, the movie doesn’t spend much of it on Lionel’s childhood growing up at the orphanage St. Vincent’s Home for Boys, which is briefly described in Norton’s voice-over but not shown in detail. That’s a major departure from the book, a good chunk of which is dedicated to Lionel as a young man, how he and three other orphans became “Minna Men,” and the relationships between them. It also delves deeper into Lionel’s backstory, including his habit of calling other people in the phone book with the last name “Essrog” to feel less alone. Lionel’s Tourette’s […]