Sorry, Anne.

Closer question: Does Jane die at the end? It didn't occur to me that she might have until I skimmed upthread. Did I miss something?

ita, she does in the play.

But does she in the movie?

I'm not sure. I think that it can be reasonably inferred from the last shot of her -- if you look, she's crossing against the light without checking for cars, and if I remember right you can hear sirens as the screen fades to black. But I saw the movie knowng how the play ends, so I may have been reading that into what was intended as an ambiguous scene.

Sorry, that sounded snippy. When I scanned upthread it didn't seem sure if that had made it from one medium to the other. I was so busy laughing (IMDB has the movie listed as a comedy!) at the reactions of the guys she passed that I may have tuned that out.

I thought it was a very unstagey adaptation, all told. Some of the staccato tempo reminded me of theatre (lots of one word responses), but not definitively so. It would have taken me until late in the movie to guess it was from a play. Unlike, say, a Jeffrey.

I didn't read you as snippy at all, so no worries.

But does she in the movie?

In the movie the last shot is her stepping out into traffic. I think they leave it kind of ambiguous what happens then.

I found it totally stagy. Or the dialogue anyway...

I had no idea that she dies in the play, and didn't twig to any hints of it in the film either. I may have been to busy watching Natalie Portman walk down the street though.

I thought Clive Owen was fabulous. There was a masculine maturity about him that you don't often see in Hollywood actors.

Masculine maturity--what a perfect description!